"In 2010, 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments without receiving any anesthesia for relief." (ProCon). In recent years, animals have been increasingly mistreated and manipulated to test many of the products we use today. A common belief among many people is that it is better to test it on animals rather than humans. This alone is very disturbing. The problem is that no life, be it human or animal, is worth being subjected to pain and discomfort for the sake of personal gain. The truth is that there are safer and more reliable methods that could solve the problems related to animal testing that occurs around the world today. While product testing on animals provides one of the main reasons why animal testing is bad is because it inflicts pain on animals. Although there are regulations in place, cruelty to these animals still occurs (PETA). The main regulator of animal testing is the AWA or the Animal Welfare Act. This law really only regulates the housing and transportation of animals. This improves conditions for the animals slightly, but since there is no regulation on the experiments themselves, most of the cruelty continues to occur. Thousands of animals are harmed every year due to experiments on products that make our lives so comfortable. To be precise, in 2010, 436,892 animals were inflicted pain during experiments. Another alarming fact is that 97,123 of these animals did not receive any help to relieve the pain (ProCon). Many tests carried out on animals are inhumane and cruel. One of these would be a Draize test. This test is performed to test for skin and eye irritation caused by cosmetics. This can be done by holding an animal's entire body and opening the eyelids so that researchers can see the effects their products have on the animals (Helfer). Another gruesome test performed in these experiments is the healing test. In this test the animal can be burned and cut to understand how animals heal. Another commonly used test is the LD50 test. This lies in the fact that from a DNA point of view there is a 90% similarity between many animals and humans (ProCon). Although this similarity is very strong, there is still no exact match and this can cause problems. This means that the results obtained from animal tests may not always be true. This can cause thousands of unwanted deaths in humans. “94% of drugs that pass animal testing fail in human clinical trials.” (ProCon). Tests can also work the other way around. Some drugs can cause harm to animals and be totally safe for humans and even beneficial. An example of this would be aspirin. It is very harmful to some species of animals. In humans, aspirin saves lives and can help stop and prevent heart attacks and strokes. Another example of this happened when tests were conducted on a drug used to help organ transplant recipients accept the new organ. This drug did not pass animal tests, but fortunately it was still included in human clinical trials. This statement that animal testing saves lives is not entirely true (Zurlo). Different drugs often react differently with both humans and animals. Logically this makes perfect sense because human processes are ultimately very different from the processes of an animal. This means that the test results that