Why do they test perfumes on animals?

Drugs are tested on animals because the labs want to find out what drugs will work for which diseases and how they will potentially affect people. (side effects) They think it isn't right to test on people.

Answer:

There is no alternative to testing on animals in some cases, Obviously you can't just make a guess. you can't construct a computer simulation, and you can't just put drugs out and only identify the harm or good that they do by tracking the results on the patients.

Animals as drug subjects have several advantages over using volunteers:

* Their life spans and reproductive cycles (Birth to breeding) much shorter to identify long term and multi-generation problems * In many cases animals reactions to drugs are similar to human reactions * If the drugs cause problems then no body has suffered