Animal Testing

For this weeks blog, it is going to be a little different. This week I want to talk about the issue of product testing on animals. Which, in my opinion at least, is unnecessary considering half the things they are put through in the testing process.
Many countries have begun to either ban animal testing or lower is so there is a reduction in the number of animals that suffer in labs. Countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand and the UK have banned testing on chimpanzees or any great ape. In the US there is no ban. But in 2015, apparently, the last of the chimpanzees being tested on were sent to sanctuaries. The testing of cosmetics and other personal products has also been banned in quite a few countries in Europe and the Middle East.
Animal testing is also a practice that is very expensive. It was found that the National Institute of Health spends somewhere around $14.5 billion per year on animal experiments. And this money comes from taxpayers. But the NIH has gone down on the number of chimps they use in testing. So that is a start.
It has also been found that a decent amount of the time, the results found from testing on animals is not even transferable to humans. It was found by the US Food and Drug Administration that only 8% of drugs tested on animals are found ok for people to use. And that 95% of drugs tested are not. This shows the unnecessariness of the testing since, a lot of the time, it is found to not work correctly.
Many animals also do not fall under any protection laws. It was found that around 85% to 95% of the millions of animals used in testing do not fall under this. Giving the scientists more room to abuse their experiments I feel.
The animals undergo negative reactions to the products. They undergo burning, having products placed in their eyes, injections of different kinds of products and quite a few more. They go through all of this, and a lot of the time the product does not even work correctly for people.
Animal testing unfortunately, I feel, will continue to be used on products. Especially cosmetic products. But I am hoping that in the future, the testing will either be reduced more or taken out all together.