Sometimes you need to test a medicine/chemical on a living being to see what happens.
Yes and No. Animals are used in pyrogen testing. Rabbits are generally used in pyrogen testing.
Approximately 12 .1 million animals are used a year for testing.
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Animal testing is legal because animal testing has been used to cure some of the deadliest ailments. Animals used in testing are also mostly rats and mice, who have safe, comfortable homes.
Doesn't work like that. For animal testing, you need lots of animals. And endangered animals are by definition animals that you can't get lots of. So endangered animals aren't used in animals testing. Animals used in animal testing are species like rats, rabbits, dogs, some species of monkeys. All animals that can be easily bred in captivity. And not at all endangered as a specie.
over 40.000 animals are used each day!! over 40.000 animals are used each day!!
Sadly, yes :( Not as much as other animals, but they are used.
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Animal testing is legal because animal testing has been used to cure some of the deadliest ailments. Animals used in testing are also mostly rats and mice, who have safe, comfortable homes.
They usually breed them just for testing, but sometimes they do get them out of shelters and pounds.
After testing and approval, then they can be used on humans.
Because it is believed that a human life is more important than an animal's life. People don't think of animals feeling pain, testing on humans seems worse than testing on animals. Most of the products are tested on on humans after they have been tested on animals.