Sad, droopy eyes stare at you, as their tail is between their legs and they back up into a corner filled with cobwebs, hoping you have at least a little bit of a heart and would stop treating them like they are nothing.  Endless whining and whining except for the second when they get kicked right in the side of their stomach, but then it starts right up again when the tall man in a head to toe white outfit walks out of the dark and caged up room.  They hope that the reason they have a huge chance of dying, isn’t so people can spray loads of cheap perfume all over their bodies.

Each year more than 100 million animals die from getting tested on by cosmetics, drugs, or pesticides. Animals are not ours to experiment on, and animal testing has to come to an end. 81 animals.

Animal testing uselessly, needlessly, injures and kills animal on productional medicines that don’t work.  Why would companies test on animals when once used by humans, the cosmetic or drug fails? 111 animals.  Testing pharmaceutical products on animals doesn’t assure human safety and 92-94% of drugs that are tested on animals fail once reach human trials. So why even bother testing the animals with the products if most of the products don’t show the results they did in the animal test? 135 animals.  In the 1950’s, thousands of babies were born with severe deformities because of a sleeping pill called thalidomide.  The pill was tested on animals before the release of the pill and the drug tested safe.  When the same drug was tested on pregnant rats, mice, guinea pigs, cats, and hamsters, and the drug did not harm the animals unless the dosage was extremely high. 177 animals. Actor and musician, Mat Fraser, was born with phocomelia, a rare deformity when limbs are attached close to the body, because of his mother being prescribed thalidomide during her pregnancy. Even if the results of the drugs are tested on the animals shows safe but when used by humans and fails, theres no point. Plus, we are killing millions of animals in the process.  222 animals.

The medications developed using animals as test subjects are often ineffective on humans. Vioxx, an anti-inflammatory medication, also failed once reached to human trials.  The medication had more than 80 million prescriptions between 1999, when the FDA approved the medication, and 2004, when the drug had been pulled from the market.  The medication tested safe in at least eight studies on six different animals. The drugs resulted in more than 60,000 American deaths and 140,000 worldwide deaths from heart attacks and other cardiovascular events.

All though many medical miracles have been created from drugs that were testing on animals, many cruelty-free activists and scientists are creating beneficial ways to test drugs without animals that also take less time and cost less than testing on animals.  288 animals.

There are too many excellent alternatives available to animal testing to continue the harmful practice. You may be asking yourself, “We would we get rid of animal testing when so many medical miracles and breakthroughs have been created by getting tested on animals.” It’s true, many live-curing products have been tested on animals and succeeded.  But the truth is, those same products could’ve been tested on a different way,  Harvard’s Wyss Institute is creating a micro-chip called an “organ-on-chips” for drugs to be tested on.  Each chip is for a different organ, such as a lung, heart, or liver.  Little grooves are carved in the chip and cells that make up the certain organ are injected into the indentation.  Since the chip contains human cells, the results showed would be the results they would get by testing on a human.  When a drug or cosmetic is tested on an animal, the results can come out very differently because humans and animals are far from similar.  Drugs that are tested on animals can take years to get the results, waste millions of dollars and lives of animals if the experiment doesn’t go according to plan. Using this “organ-on-chips” is the next step in diminishing animal testing. 

Even though this chip is something for the future, there are things you can go now to help stop animal testing. The easiest thing you can do is stop buying products that have been tested on animals and start buying products from cruelty-free companies. 348 animals.

Animal testing is cruel and unusual, something banned for people in the U.S. Constitution. Burned, poisoned, drowned. Just three of the cruel things that are experienced by millions of animals daily.  And guess what? The U.S. law allows this.  No test or process the animals have to go through is prohibited.  Many diseases that the animals get are diseases that would never usually develop in an animals life.  Tumors the size of a grown man’s fist on a mouse the size of a newborn baby's fist, skulls cracked open, and spines crushed.  If they animal lives after the test, they are thrown back into their cages with no pain medications until their next test which they may or may not survive.  394 animals. 

Almost 400 animals have died because of needless testing in the time you have been reading this paper. So, the next time you use a product that was tested on animals, make sure you realize that you were complicit in their harm.
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