While we are organisms of compassion, we are also organisms of advancement. With the need to advance, sometimes the compassion is cast aside in the name of science. In the case of live animal studies, it is sometimes necessary to closely imitate how medical research will fare in the human body. However, it does not completely justify the pain that these animals undergo. The lives of animals should be treated with the respect of all living things. The use of live animals for medical studies should only be allowed if there is no other way to test something in research. Animal testing should not be used for procedures that are purely cosmetic, but with something to potentially heal a medical issue, it is needed until further engineering creates virtual testing or tissue engineering testing.