That the practice has not been banned yet is no surprise when one understands how the system really works: that many scientists work for governments. If a ban ever was activated, we'd have 10s of 100's scientists without a job overnight. Pharmaceuticals hire them because they receive subsidies -- and make prices up -- which generate profits from a corporate point of view.

But animal experimentation has not helped society that much at all. We still have poisons in our foods, air pollution getting worse, ocean trash is at record high, and our river and aquifers are tainted with all kind of chemicals and drugs, insects die-offs. As a result cancer and other illness are skyrocketing.

A for profit society is always wasteful, no matter how we look at it, because it cannot fix any problems without reducing profits by the same token. Unless there is a profit to make from it. But since society has been wasting resources as if there are no tomorrows for decades, the price tag is going to put everybody under strain at some point. No escape.

CONCLUSION: Monetizing life, the Gift of Life does not work... and it took Humanity more than 4000 years to gather all the evidence to finally make sense of Reality.

(nov 2018)US government to go ahead with fatal experiments on dogs... The US government has decided to press ahead with controversial experiments on dogs, despite critics in congress and elsewhere attacking them as cruel and unnecessary.... Researchers running the experiments will remove sections of the dogs’ brains that control breathing, sever spinal cords to test cough reflexes and implant pacemakers before triggering abnormal heart rhythms. All the dogs involved will ultimately be euthanised. ... But when asked what medical progress had come about because of dog testing, the agency’s spokesman could only point to breakthroughs which date back to the 1960s.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dogs-experiments-veterans-affairs-us-government-fatal-animal-congress-a8616861.html

EC: Looks like 2 million experiments aimed at inoculating animals with diseases

(july 2018) Thousands more scientific experiments being carried out on horses despite overall fall in animal testing. Scientific testing on live animals has fallen to its lowest level this decade, but the number of laboratory experiments carried out on horses has increased sharply... Of the 3.79 million scientific procedures, around half – 1.89 million – were experiments using animals to develop treatments...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dogs-experiments-veterans-affairs-us-government-fatal-animal-congress-a8616861.html