Do animals really suffer from animal testing?

Do animals really suffer from animal testing?

An inquiry into the impact of animal testing

Some people question whether animals really suffer from animal testing and most people think it won't be that harmless to the animal. Most animals get killed in many different animal tests, for example: vivisection, where people cut open an animal and perform operations on them. Sometimes this can go horribly wrong and may cause the animal to get hurt really badly, or even die. Some animals still die from this in the US to this day. This is the Animal Welfare Act, formerly known as the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act:

The Animal Welfare Act, or AWA, is a federal law that addresses the standard of care animals receive at research facilities. This law excludes roughly 95 percent of the animals tested upon—such as rats, mice, birds, fish, and reptiles—and provides only minimal protections for the rest.

This law was made in 1996 and was made because people were concerned for the cats and dogs used in animal testing, but other animals are still tested on today still including the cats and dogs which are being tested on illegally.

Another type of testing on animals is sending animals to space and seeing if they survive. Most of them don't. The first time this happened was on 3rd November 1957. You might remember them sending a dog named Laika to orbit planet Earth. The poor dog was put through 7 hours of suffering before dying due to overheating. This plan sometimes isn't effective as if the human survives, the animal may not. Animals have a different body and system, which means that if one of us survives the experiment, the other could possibly die.

Each day, many different species of animals suffer from this inhumane act. Did you know that mice and rats suffer the most from animal testing? Other species like cats and dogs suffer from this as well. Instead of living their life with a human who loves and cares for them, they're in a lab, waiting for their inevitable death.