Animal testing.

Each year about five million dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, monkeys, and other animals die in lethal tests performed in the U.S. During such experiments strange substance are forced into the animals throats, or are pumped into their stomachs by a tube. Experimental medicines are injected under the skin, into a vein, abdomen, applied to the eyes of an animal or forciblly inhaled through a gas mask. Scientists observe the animal's reactions such as convulsions, laboured breathing, skin eruptions, abnormal posture, and bleeding from the eyes, nose or mouth. According to statistics, 50% of these creatures will die in this expirement 2 to 3 weeks later and those who wont die-will be killed.
The horrible fact about these incidents is that they are unneccesarry as there exist cheaper and more efficient ways to test medicines without causing animals torment.

One o them is cell and tissue cultivation. Cells are taken from humane body and cultivated to the tissue. Then medicines and chemical substances can be tested on it. As this is humane tissue there is no risk that the test will be unreliable. What is more on one piece of the tissue several experiments can be made not as on an animal when one creature is used for one experiment. The other great advantage of cultivation is fact that there is practically no possibility that tested medicine will occure toxic or side effect causing. There were a lot of accidents when medicament worked great on animal but for people was dangerous and vice versa.
The other way of experimenting is based on computer technology. Most of new drugs in fact are mixtures of old, known ones. Using sophisticated computer programes the dostors can now predict the effect such mixes can cause. What’s interesting a company from US invented special programme which simulates clinical experiments on two virtual asthmatics and this helps to find more and more efficiet anti astmathic medicines.

As you can see there are many ways to avoid animal testing, so why do we allow such cruelty and suffering of animals? They are part of our world, and deserve some mercy and understaning. If there weren’t any other possibilities to save peoples lives without causing death of creatures , such experiments probably would be excusable, but now in XXI th century when science is developing really quickly we should stop being inhumane cause If we don't care for animals- then who will?