Animal Testing

Animal testing is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Around 50–100 million vertebrate animals are used in experiments annually. I have not decided if I am for or against animal testing. On the plus side, we as humans benefit from the discoveries found through experiments done on animals first. It is definitely safer, for us anyway, to test on something other than humans before the drug or whatever is released to humans. However, animals are often treated cruelly during these experiments and that is not right at all. Can there not be a happy medium?!