Putting Down the Law

It is scary to think that animal testing occurs in our own country. Just within the United Stats alone, captures millions of animals for experimental test. The United States has a large part of a regulation process that is governed by the Animal Welfare Act. The Animal Welfare Act is to ensure that animals that are used for research are given a high standard of care and treatment. The suffering towards the animals should be minimal. But due to the dangerous experiments that are performed, suffering a secondary goal, because it is part of the process. The Animal Welfare Act's regulations are only relevant to mammals leaving out birds, rats and mice. The immediate care for the animals used in experiments is monitored by Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees.

While the United States is putting forth an effort of regulating and being more cautious about animal testing, other countries are coming up with more animal testing programs. In the year of 2007, the European Union came out with a new chemical-testing strategy for animals. This strategy is most likely to kill millions of needless animals in a cruel and outdated toxic test. The European Union's strategy works by starting off with 30,000 similar chemicals that are injected to a wide range of animals.In Europe these new strategies remain and more are being developed.
PETA works with animals by trying to stop animal testing all around the world. When this new strategy was developed, PETA and other animal organizations set a final law that is less destructive to these animals.

All around the world, whether it is your country or another, organizations and programs are trying to make a difference and stop animal testing. It might not even be possible to stop animal testing alone, but by setting laws and rules it can help the animals from fear and severe suffering.