Animal TestingRight now, nearly 26 million animals are locked in cold, desolate cages in laboratories around the world. They feel a tremendous amount of pain and wish to one day be able to roam free again. Instead, they have to sit and wait in fear until they are used in a painful procedure. After being held captive alone in a cage, almost everyone will die. They are deprived of food, water and sleep. Most even suffer burns and other injuries or, even worse, broken necks and decapitation. Animal testing is inhumane because most experiments inflict pain on the animal when other more humane alternatives exist, such as in vitro and microfluidic chips. Most people believe that animal testing is essential to the advancement of medicine and science. However, this is not the case. The idea that scientists should experiment on animals is challenged by a growing number of doctors and scientists who exploit many research devices that do not harm or kill animals. Doctors and scientists are also seeing the negative consequences of using one species to provide information about another species that turns out to be misleading or even harmful. It can do this in just a few days, which would take months for animal experiments. Not only is it much faster but also more convenient. “It is estimated that DakDak can test five or six products at less than half the cost of studying a single product on animals. Traditional chemical testing using animals can take up to five years per substance and cost millions of dollars, while non-animal alternatives can test hundreds of chemicals in a week for a fraction of the cost.” (Brooks) Cruelty-free tests like DakDak are also more environmentally friendly. Cruelty-free testing is less harmful to the environment because it creates less waste. In toxicity testing, researchers breed, test, and ultimately dispose of millions of animals as dangerous