Read this passage from a persuasive essay about animal testing. which sentence provides evidence of a new technique that doesn’t require animal testing?

many supporters claim that the suffering of the animals is an acceptable price to pay for the benefits to humanity. but are there no other alternatives? most animal experiments can in be replaced with safer and equally effective testing methods. however, companies involved in animal experimentation refuse to try different kinds of experiments. take the example of the beauty industry, which continues to experiment on animals. the alternative—in vitro toxicity testing—involves tests conducted on cultured bacteria or mammalian cells in a lab. in fact, the european union banned animal testing in 2009. israel and india followed in 2013.