For years, scientists have used animals to test beauty products, ointments, medications, and other products that people use in their daily lives. This is a very sensitive subject which gives rise to numerous debates. There are two sides to this, one being scientists and people who see nothing wrong with using animals to test products. The other side is animal advocates or people who consider animal testing to be animal cruelty. Personally, I'm the type of person who considers animal testing to be animal cruelty. There is a lot of information supporting my belief that animal testing constitutes animal cruelty. According to procon.org, animals experience many ways of animal cruelty by being tested. According to Paul Furlong, a science professor at Aston University, "it is very difficult to create an animal model that even closely matches what we are trying to achieve in humans" (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific Purposes or commercial, Procon.org). Animals simply do not match humans anatomically, metabolically, or cellularly. Not to mention that if humans were to be used in testing instead of animals, it would be strictly voluntary. People would sign up to be experimented on voluntarily so that their rights would not be violated. On the contrary, some say that animals are better test subjects because they have very short lifespans. For example, mice only live two to three years. Because they live so short, this allows researchers to see the effects of treatment over a lifetime (Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Purposes, Procon.org). Personally, I don't think this is an effective method because they only see the test results after two or three years. What happens if the product encounters problems along the way and causes a life-corrupting illness? I don't fully trust the tests