Millions of animals suffer and die needlessly every year in the United States as they become subjects for medical testing and other horrible experiments. Although most people assume such activity is necessary to advance medical science, in reality it does very little to improve human health. The results of animal testing do not directly transfer to humans, and such results can also be easily manipulated. Most countries around the world, including the United States, have few or inadequte laws to regulate what can be done to research animals, and even though there may be non-animal research methods available, there are no laws that require researchers to use them instead. Using animals for medical testing is both unethical and unnecessary. True medical progress demands adopting nonviolent methods of scientific investigation.