Title: What Is Animal Testing? Facts and Humane Alternatives | PETA
Headings: All Your Questions About Experiments on Animals Answered
All Your Questions About Experiments on Animals Answered
Check out these facts about animal testing to learn more:
What Is Animal Testing?
Which Animals Are Used in Tests?
Is Animal Testing Cruel?
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Experiments on Animals at Colleges and Universities
Help End Experiments on Animals at Colleges
Are Tests on Animals Legal?
How Does PETA Help Animals Used in Experiments?
Which Cosmetics and Personal-Care Companies Don’t Conduct Tests on Animals?
Find Cruelty-Free Companies
These Food and Drink Companies Refuse to Test on Animals
What Percentage of Animal Tests Fail?
History of Animal Testing and Animal-Free Medical Advances
Without Consent: A Century of Animal Experiments
Animal Testing Alternatives: Can Science Progress Without Tests on Animals?
Why Should Animal Testing Be Banned?
Support PETA’s Efforts to Help Animals in Laboratories

Content: A Century of Animal Experiments
Animal Testing Alternatives: Can Science Progress Without Tests on Animals? Today—because experiments on animals are cruel and expensive and their results are generally inapplicable to humans—the world’s most forward-thinking scientists are developing and using methods for studying diseases and testing products that replace animals and are actually relevant to human health. Alternatives to animal testing include sophisticated tests using human cells and tissues (also known as in vitro methods), organs-on-chips, advanced computer-modeling techniques (often referred to as in silico models), and studies with human volunteers. These and other non-animal methods are humane, and they aren’t hindered by species differences that make applying animal test results to humans difficult or impossible. Also, they usually take less time and money to complete. Why Should Animal Testing Be Banned? In addition to the many reasons listed above, testing on animals is wasteful, violent, unproductive, and speciesist. Animals are not ours to use for experiments. They have their own wants, interests, needs, and feelings—independent of what purpose they might serve humans.