Every year more than 100 million animals are killed for cosmetic, food, and drug testing.
Animal testing is a controversial issue that has been debated for a long time. Many people question if the advances made in the fields of food, drugs, and cosmetics are worth the price of harming animals. 43% of adults oppose the use of animals for experiments. The other 57% accept it because they believe it is crucial to medical progress. Many advocacy groups against animal testing support their argument saying that most of the experiments lead to dead ends anyways. 92% percent of drugs—those that have been tested on animals and in vitro—do not make it through Phase 1 of human clinical trials. As a society, we would never consent to using human test subjects, yet we have no objections to using animals such as mice, rats, cats, dogs, and monkeys. What separates these 2 groups? Just because animals can't tell us they are in pain, do they still not experience the same harmful effects? We need to stand up for and protect the rights of all living creatures by boycotting companies that use animals to further their economic gains.
