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Stop using animals for testing

The Environmental Protection Agency has planned to eliminate the use of animals as testing objects for chemicals by the year 2035 and require that any mammal studies requested or funded by the EPA after 2035 will need administrator approval on a case-by-case basis. This is a start to begin making the necessary changes that will help keep more animals alive and sustain our environment.

Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced $4.25 million in funding to five universities to research the development and use of alternative test methods and strategies that reduce, refine, and/or replace vertebrate animal testing, according to the Environmental Protection Agency website.

The memorandum also calls for the agency to reduce its requests for, and funding of, mammal studies by 30 percent by 2025, and eliminate all mammal study requests and funding by 2035.

Some believe that animals are necessary to determine whether or not the chemicals that are being processed are toxic to humans and the environment, but it not the most humane method.

There may be some challenges in the beginning of this process with finding what is effective and equivalent without harming any living species, but science only advances with time and there is hope for a future where animals are not used for science purposes.

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