Animal testing should be banned!

Animals feel just as much pain as humans do. The only difference is that they do not have a voice. Millions of innocent animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits, and many others, die each year due to the gruesome torture of animal testing. Animal testing should be banned for its cruelty, inefficiency, and uselessness. The killing of harmless animals for human testing and research is malevolent. Many multi-product manufacturers, including Johnson & Johnson and Clorox, poison and abuse animals during experimentation that is not required by law. Approximately 1.13 million animals are tested on each year, and 76,000 of which are subjected to torture without pain relief. In addition to not receiving proper pain relief treatment, animals are locked up in undersized cages with no space to move around in without any toys. This action itself causes many animals to die due to loneliness and lack of intellectual and physical stimulation. Although Congress has passed the Unites States Animal Welfare Act to set a certain minimum requirements for humane treatment of nonhuman animals, it is still ineffective! The Animal Welfare Act excludes protection of mice and rats, which make up 95% of animals in laboratories. Though many consider them to be rodents and are worthless, shockingly, mice and rats have very similar nervous systems to humans, meaning they are able to experience just as much happiness, affection, and most importantly, pain. Aside from the brutality of animal testing, animal testing is also inefficient. Research of the importance of animal experimentation have shown how animal experimentation is unneeded, misleading, and does not provide comparable results to other methods. Studies of the Medical Research Modernization Committee have discovered that treatments effective in animals tended to have excessive side effects on humans. Furthermore, the Food and Drug Administration stated that 92% of drugs found safe in animals often fail during human clinical trials. In fact, Vioxx, a painkiller, had been tested in many examinations and found safe and even helpful to the heart. Consequently, Vioxx was withdrawn from the market in 2004 for causing 320,000 heart attacks, in which 140,000 were vital. Not only is animal experimentation inefficient, but it is also pointless. There are a significant amount of alternatives that scientists can and do use, and with the advanced technology we have, as of today, many laboratories have designed substitutes for living animals. For instance, Ceetox, a contract research laboratory, uses human cell-based in vitro toxicity while biotechnology firm, H?REL, created a three-dimensional human "liver" to study the breakdowns of chemistry. Also, researched of the National Cancer Institute and United States military have shown that Mat Tek"s three-dimensional skin tissue is a great replacement for testing cosmetics, weapons, radiations, etc. Though one might argue that human-suffering is our main priority and that it could possibly endanger human health by allowing products to enter the market before tested for toxicity, animal testing cannot determine whether it is toxic of not. Animals do not have replicate DNA to humans, therefore products tested on at present are still toxic for humans, even if claimed to have been safe on animals. Sciences have accelerated increasingly over the couple decades, giving scientists and researchers much technology for human safety usage. To sum up, experimentation on animals should be outlawed. It is inhumane, ineffective, and pointless. Being an animal is no different that being a human. Everyone is able to feel pain, but we everyone can also step up for the movement opposing animal testing and speak for the speechless.