Thank you for your comment!

To be fair, I was forced to stay within 1500 words as this was an essay for class, so I was unable to raise all the points I wanted.

I personally have conducted animal research and will conduct more in the future - and at the same time I am against it. But at the moment it's necessary and I know someone will do it.

Finally, please think about the erosion of empathy and sympathy that must take place in people conducting these experiments. This, too is a cost. These people return to their homes, their families having cultivated the ability to look away from suffering. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

This. Exactly this. My first contact with lab animals was caring for them for a year. Then I needed to use the mice for my bachelor thesis research and later the lab assistant job I held required me to do some things I won't explain in detail.

The thing is that I know many researchers quickly lose empathy with the animals and start treating them badly. I prefer doing the experiment myself, knowing that I will be as gentle as possible.

It broke my heart every time I had to kill a mouse, and I still say that in the few cases that I was bitten, I deserved it because I wasn't careful enough.

Animal research is necessary in many cases, but there are also a lot of unnecessary deaths.

I hope I'll see the day that we have adequate alternatives.

(I already apologize for any typos, I wrote this reply on my phone).