An estimated 26 million animals are used every year in the United Sates for scientific and commercial testing. The cruelty and inhumane procedures these poor animals have to endure is completely appalling. Alternative testing methods now exist that can replace the need for animals. They are actually very different from humans and therefore make poor subjects. 95% of animals are used in experiments are not protected by the Animal Welfare Act. According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, extended periods of physical restraint and the pain of burns and other wounds just to study the healing process. Most of us cant even bare to look at pictures of monkeys with their electrode-implanted brains and bolted heads struggling to perform their eye exercises in a desperate attempt to get water. Advocates for animal researching like to accentuate that most experiments use mice and rats but that just isn’t true. Testing for cosmetic use has only grown greatly in the past decade and these tests are conducted mainly on rabbits, monkeys, kittens, dogs and rats. The most common are the skin and eye irritation test, or the Draize test, where the animal is put in stocks, has it’s eyelids “clipped” so that it cannot blink. Toxic chemicals are then pored onto it’s eyes and left for days or weeks , being monitored at regular times to see how the product has effected the animals skin. Not to mention this testing is very costly and nearly $12 billion taxpayer dollars are spent yearly on the procedure. I believe because we can put a man on the moon, we can think of alternative ways to test products. We do have the technology. Thankfully, scientists have begun to find ways to test products that are actually relevant to human health. Some of these modern methods include advanced tests using human cells and tissues, sophisticated computer-modeli