Laboratories experiment on an estimated 26 million animals every year to determine whether commercial products and medications are safe for humans, a practice that many activists argue is inhumane and can be replaced by other testing methods. Here are the leading arguments for and against animal testing:

FOR:

Animals cannot feel pain or experience fear

Puts long-tailed macaques in their place

Pretty much the only way to mutilate hamsters without seeming like psychopath

Human race may live to see the final elimination of split ends and frizz

Satiates scientists’ bloodlust and keeps them from going after humans

No chance whatsoever that our present-day treatment of animals will be judged harshly by future generations


AGAINST: