The Chinese horoscope contains many animals.  I was born during the Year of the Monkey.  So, of course, monkeys are my favority animal.
So  how about animal testing?
I don't know much about animal testing except on cosmetics one often sees statements that the products were not tested on animals.  Is animal testing a problem in the U.S.?
Animal rights activists oppose testing on animals
That's a bit simplistic, isn't it?  Animal testing must yield some benefits or it wouldn't be done.
Experiments on vertebrate animals in the European Union are since January 1, 2013. subject to "Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes", which was finalized in November 2010 and updated and replaced the "Directive 86/609/EEC on the protection of Animals used for Experimental and other scientific purposes", adopted in 1986
That's nice, but not conclusive that there aren't benefits to animal testing.  Are you in the E.U.? I'm sure those regulations are different from the U.S.
there is widespread agreement that a reduction in the number of animals used and the refinement of testing to reduce suffering should be important goals for the industries involved.
And how have the industries responded to that widespread agreement?
 It seems like they started creating new ways to test producs, but I don't know much about this. Two major alternatives to "in vivo" animal testing are "in vitro" cell culture techniques and "in silico" computer simulation