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**Don't Touch That Needle!**
Animal testing should not be allowed. Scientists use animals to do research on wide spread diseases, cosmetics, and allergy medicines. Over 100,000,00 animals on average are used for testing each year, and all of them usually end up poisoned or killed. There are many other reasons why animals should not be tested on. First off, millions of animals are killed each year, which in some ways can affect the animal-ecosystem, affecting the food chain. With all these animals disappearing, not only are we killing animals from testing, but we are also starving animals by taking away their prey.

Second, many animal tests have proved as a failure. The medicine in which animals are tested on proves positive for animals, but for humans it could result in it not working, or even worse death. This is exactly what had happened in a cosmetics lab in Europe. The cosmetics appeared to be safe to use on animals, but when sold in the markets, the lab was forced to release the rest of their captive animals and shut down their lab, because their cosmetics had caused many people to have allergy attacks, such as asthma, rashes, and even peeling skin.

Although we have found cures to many diseases such as Leprosy, Rabies, Influenza, and Tuberculosis, is it really worth it for harming an innocent animal? No, it’s not! Not many of these tests done directly improves humans health. Pain killers and liquid cold medicine may have been proven to be positive on animals, but if it works on animals, how do we know it will help humans? In an primate testing facility, most scientists there have found that in most tests they do don’t even require the use of animals!

Other alternatives are available, such as computer simulations and growing artificial muscles! Animals aren’t, and can’t be, our only source for testing. Some people think animals should be tested on, because without this kind of testing, we would not have the cures for diseases such as Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Rabies, Influenza, and a lot of other diseases. Scientists go on with the rules made from the 1986 Animals Act, which states that any animal that is being put through suffering may not be put through pain in a long term period. Saying this is like saying it’s okay to stick a pen in your eye for a period of time, but not a minute longer! This is wrong! Say you were in a room with an animal to be tested on to your right, and a gun to your left. Would you choose the animal or the gun? Neither, because they’re both bad choices, just like testing on animals is!

Stop testing on animals, they have a purpose just like us! Millions are killed each year, not to mention poisoned and blinded. After reading I want people to think about how they would feel if their dog or cat were put in this position. Would you want to stop this madness?