Animal Experimentation Is Unnecessary
In addition, while many see animal testing as a valuable way to spend taxpayer’s money due to it providing helpful information toward human health, it is simply not true. Animal experimentation has been proven to be economically deficient, too much for too little. For example, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), emphasizes that every year, “The U.S, animal experimentation gobbles up billions of dollars”. This is essentially wasted money to find “new cures” for many diseases. With all the funds being used on medical research by animal experimentation, why is the US ranked 49th for life expectancy? With all the money being used to experiment, wouldn’t you think we would be ranked higher? Too much money is being spent on torturing