Which would you prefer it to be? You or the animal? Have you ever had a family member who needed to undergo open heart surgery? If your answer is yes, you have animals to thank for making open heart surgery possible. We first started performing open-heart surgery on the monkeys to see what would happen and whether they would survive. Without animal testing none of this would have been possible. Animal testing may seem like a cruel and terrible thing to you at first, but once you hear what I have to say, you will realize that we need it and that it's not even that cruel. Animal testing has helped us in medicine in many different ways. Not only to help find cures for diseases in humans, but also to help find cures for diseases in animals. Many people think that animals are simply tortured when they are in testing facilities, but in reality most of the time this is not the case. Furthermore, animals are not simply taken from the wild to be tested, but are born in captivity specifically for testing. We must continue to experiment on animals in order to continue saving human and animal lives. Many extremists try to argue that there are other ways and that we shouldn't test on animals because it's cruel. However, no other way will physically come close to actual surgery or transplantation. Animals Make Great Test Subjects Jane Goodall said that “chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans” (Animal Testing). Jane Goodall also stated that “mice are 98% genetically similar to humans” (Animal Testing). This makes chimpanzees and mice the closest beings we can test on other than ourselves. Other than animals, there is no other suitable alternative to whole-body testing. We are also allowed to test animals through... half paper... as was done twenty years ago. Many researchers today agree that animal testing is a fundamental resource for the development of medical research. Animal testing helps advance our medical knowledge, helps save human and animal lives, and there really is no other alternative way to get the results we want. Need. They just want to ensure that the medicines and other products we use are safe for us and do not kill us. Animal testing allows us to better understand the drugs we use today. In all cases, or even in most cases, it will not give us the immediate results and treatment we want, but it will definitely help save lives in the end. We must be able to continue experimenting on animals, you can't make a test tube cough or make a computer beat a heart. You would prefer the test to be done on you or on an animal?