Animal Experiments Currently, nearly 26 million animals are locked in cold, desolate cages in laboratories around the world. They suffer greatly and long to one day live in freedom again. Instead, they must sit and wait in fear until they are used in a painful procedure. After being held captive alone in a cage, almost all of them will die. They are deprived of food, water and sleep. Most are even subject to burns and other injuries, or worse, broken necks and decapitation. Animal testing is inhumane because most experiments inflict pain on the animal while there are other, more humane alternatives, such as in vitro and microfluidic chips. Most people believe that animal testing is essential to the advancement of medicine and science. However, this is not the case. The idea that scientists should experiment on animals is being challenged by a growing number of doctors and scientists who operate many research devices that do not harm or kill animals. Doctors and scientists are also seeing the harmful consequences of using one species to provide information about another species, which turns out to be misleading or even harmful. This can take a few days, whereas animal experiments would take months. Not only is it much faster, but also more cost-effective. “It is estimated that DakDak can test five or six products for less than half the cost of studying a single product in animals. Traditional chemical testing using animals can take up to five years per substance and cost millions of dollars, while non-animal alternatives can test hundreds of chemicals in a week for a fraction of the cost. (Brooks) Cruelty-free tests like DakDak are also more environmentally friendly. Humane testing is less harmful to the environment because it generates less waste. In toxicity testing, researchers breed, test and ultimately eliminate millions of animals as dangerous.