Cost

Many animal alternatives cost less than products or activities that involve animals. For example:

A diet of grains, beans, vegetables and fruit usually costs less than a meat-based diet. See the “Why Be a Vegetarian?” section in http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/vegetarian_diets.htm.

The cost of vinyl, canvas and other non-leather products is typically less than the cost of leather products. See http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/leather2010.php.

The time and cost to perform toxicity, eye irritancy and other product safety testing without animals is usually less than the time and cost to test these products on animals. See http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ain_pt_alternatives_testing
and http://neavs.org/betterscience/bettersci_benefits_of_using_nonanimal_tests_110101.htm.

The cost of using dissection software is typically less than the cost to dissect animals. See http://neavs.org/esec/alternatives/alt_cost_comparison_101501.htm.

See Promote Kindness - Literature for more information.