tokens: Testing on animals and keeping them in unnatural conditions Perhaps the most serious problem facing the animals' rights today is animal experimentation . Many medical treatments have been discovered by animal testing, including cancer and HIV drugs While most scientists claim that this is vital for improving human health, I believe that primates should have the same rights as human beings . There are several reasons why animal testing should be banned . Firstly, the costs outweigh the benefits . Every year, cosmetic companies, farms or medical schools kill millions of animals to test their products, without any beneficial result . Animal testing costs an enormous amount of money, since they must be fed, cared for and treated with drugs or experimental substances . Secondly, animals are kept in unnatural conditions . Recent studies point out that animals are neglected and treated poorly, which influences their reactions to drugs . In March 2003, a lab technician shot a video inside a lab, which revealed primates in cages without pain medication, for instance one baboon with a metal cylinder screwed into its head . Consequently, I think that sacrificing animals is an expensive and painful activity . There is also the argument that many ethical and genetic principles are broken when testing on animals . Many people agree that it is not only inhumane and cruel to cause pain to animals, but also misleading, since animals and people's response to a drug can be different . I personally believe that human beings have no moral right to use animals in ways that do not benefit the individual . For the reasons mentioned above, it seems to me that testing on animals has no clear result and consequently, it should be made illegal .