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Top Five Reasons to Stop Animal Testing

Written by PETA | May 11, 2011

What’s wrong with animal testing? Poisoning, shocking, burning, and killing animals is all in a day’s work for vivisectors. If these atrocious acts were committed outside laboratories, they would be felonies. But animals suffer and die every day in laboratories with little or no protection from cruelty.

Here are the top five reasons why it needs to stop:

1. It’s unethical.

It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking, feeling animals to life in a laboratory cage and intentionally cause them pain, loneliness, and fear.

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2. It’s bad science.

The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans.

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3. It’s wasteful.

Animal experiments prolong the suffering of people waiting for effective cures by misleading experimenters and squandering precious money, time, and resources that could have been spent on human-relevant research.

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4. It’s archaic.

Forward-thinking scientists have developed humane, modern, and effective non-animal research methods, including human-based microdosing, in vitro technology, human-patient simulators, and sophisticated computer modeling, that are cheaper, faster, and more accurate than animal tests.

5. It’s unnecessary.

The world doesn’t need another eyeliner, hand soap, food ingredient, drug for erectile dysfunction, or pesticide so badly that it should come at the expense of animals’ lives.

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For everyday ways to keep animals out of cruel experiments, see PETA’s list of surprising ways to help animals in laboratories.

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