Unethical, cruel and disturbing. These are just a few words that come to mind when society thinks about animal testing. Animals used in laboratory tests and experiments are subjected to hours and hours of painful and traumatic tests every day. This is wrong and should not be done. What is this country doing to end this torture? They do absolutely nothing. There are a few organizations such as People for the Ethical Treatments of Animals and The Humane Society of the United States (humansociety.org) working together to end this terrible scandal, but a few groups of people will not have a big impact on this matter. This nation must come together and uncover the truth behind these crimes. Animal testing should be stopped because animals have a wide range of emotions that are the same as humans, testing on animals is not reliable or effective, and there are many alternatives that can be used to save many animal lives. have emotions and feel pain. According to "dictionary.com", an animal is "any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and generally limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively acquire food and digest it internally, and have sensory and nervous systems that allow them to respond quickly to stimuli. The definition clearly states that animals have a sensory and nervous system and respond quickly to stimuli. If an animal can respond to stimuli, why wouldn't it be able to experience emotions? Some scientists argue that animals cannot feel the same types of emotions as humans, but recent research has shown that animals respond to the environment like humans do, reacting to emotions... middle of paper. ..... movements. Monkeys are addicted to drugs and have holes in their skulls, sheep and pigs have burned skin, and rats have crushed spinal cords. Tiny mice develop tumors as big as their own bodies, kittens are intentionally blinded and rats are subjected to convulsions. In archaic medical training classes, pigs and dogs are cut open and killed and cats and ferrets are shoved down their delicate throats with hard plastic tubes. Most of these barbaric experiments are funded by the federal government with taxpayer money. So we waste precious dollars on cruel experiments. This is all unethical, cruel and disturbing. These are just a few words to describe animal testing. This is why animal testing is wrong, so think about all those animals who are suffering before buying makeup, medications, and bath products that have been tested on animals..