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Animal Testing Animal testing is a very controversial scientific issue; some people believe that it is necessary to test on animals to find cures to ailments that we suffer from. However, testing animals in drug and cosmetic research is dangerous, insensitive, and not necessary. Every year in the United States an estimated 70 million animals are maimed, blinded, scalded, and force fed chemicals. The products that are being tested on these animals are medications, and the majority of products being tested on these animals are household items such as floor polisher, oven cleaner. Also being tested on these animals are cosmetics, and other products people use every day. Animals that are being used are rats, mice, guinea pigs, dogs, cats and other animals. Statistics show that drugs that pass the animal tests end up harming or killing humans 61% of the time. More than half of all animal testing done is being done by cosmetic companies. Companies, who are supposed to be treating animals well before the testing’s, have been reported to be abusing animals. Common pets such as the dog have been used for medical training, and immediately afterwards are killed. The horrible reality is that, when these products are being tested they are not just tested on one animal at a time, they are testing these products on over 100 animals at a time, making the chance for these animals to survive less and less likely. These animals come from a lot of different places, some times scientists go to auctoins were they are selling animals, such as dogs, and cats, and they buy them specifically for testing. Mostly they take animals that were found on the street, and some people say they even take animals from a persons own yard. Once an animal is not useful in places, for instance a circus, the animals could be sent right through to labs that will take them, instead to of to people who would actually take care of them. Many animal rights groups have suggested alternative solutions such as: chemical assay tests, tissue culture systems, cell and organ cultures, cloned human skin cells computer and mathematical models. Animal testing will not go away soon, but the growing amount of people against will eventually make it impossible for scientists to test on animals any longer.