Cruelty is a sensitive subject to most of us, especially when it involves helpless animals. In today's society, our advanced technology has enabled a myriad of alternatives to replace experimentation. With these alternatives, the pain that the thousands of animals experience each year could be eliminated or at least greatly depleted. The government must make animal experimentation illegal since massive amounts of money are wasted and innocent animals are not killed.

There are three main categories involved with experimentation, all of which are types of testing on animals. The first and perhaps the major category is chemical testing. Different amounts of chemicals are tested on hundreds of animals everyday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pronounced that almost every chemical must be tested before being imported into the United States. This being the case, between five thousand and eighty-seven thousand animals are subjected to the testing of chemicals. A...