Animal Testing Banned

When picking out your mascara, do you stop to see what kind of makeup you are using? You could be supporting animal cruelty and not even know it. Today many makeup products are being tested on animals such as Covergirl, Revlon and even MAC. We have made numerous advancements in the world and have established the scientific evolution but it seems that our ethics and morals have failed to progress. The knowledge and power we have is exceptional, but with it comes responsibility to use it wisely and ethically. We kill and torture creatures that we arrogantly consider lesser beings. For something as simple as mascara animals are tortured and blinded by tests performed at the laboratory. It is estimated that each year over 100 million animals are being performed on for different types of experiments all around the world. Most of the things being performed in these labs you could never imagine one human being doing to another. I believe that animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, not very reliable, inaccurate, and is proved to be unnecessary.

People do not realize how much pain the animals go through for just one experiment. People say "oh they are just animals they do not feel anything." Yes, they do. They can feel the pain when they are being injected with needles and screws in their heads. Animals are like us except they can not talk. They have a heart and a mind just like a human does. This is not fair to punish animals for society's needs. Animals should be treated with respect from humans just like how humans respect each other. Animal testing should be illegal because in order to do these experiments it cost lots of money, results are not always accurate, and it is animal cruelty.

A lot of people all over the world have pets of all kinds. Dogs, cats, mice, rabbits, etc. Have you ever imagined your own pet being tortured with experiments? Alone, scared, in pain. Animal testing is a very real thing and I real problem. Animal testing will eventually lead to the extinction of our own pets. Even with other methods of testing, they would rather inject, burn, and kill these animals. Testing subjects can be any where from a tiny mouse to a big Golden Retriever. These innocent animals go through painful and terrifying procedures every day. Scientist force these animals to feed, force toxic inhalation, deprive them of food and water, inflict burns and pain, even decapitation, neck-breaking, and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation.

“Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in the United States from animal testing” (Experiments on, 2017). These animals are harmed or even killed more than half of the time that they are experimented on. These harmless animals are taken and forced into captivity for different kinds of testing from day to day. They are forced to stay in cages all day long and only get to eat what they are given based on testing for that day. Animals are just like people; they need to exercise, have interactions, be able to eat when hungry, etc., but laboratories take away these privileges from the animals by trapping them in the lab all day. Animal testing is wrong and harmful in many ways.

Animals are sentient which mean that they can feel emotions and pain and can not consent to being tested on or not, so they will be forced to. Now imagine that you were an animal in a lab being poked and prodded with needles and syringes. Being hooked up with countless wires with absolutely no freedom and getting locked up in cages or kennels just to be taken out of them for it to happen again. Animals should not be experimentally tested on because It is wrong and inhumane to Abuse the animals just to further our knowledge when it causes them pain. Experimental testing on animals can lead to early death, disease, pain and suffering severe trauma to the animals..

Every year more than 100 million animals are used for testing in the U.S. and never get to live a free life that they deserve. No animal, no matter how big or small it is, deserves to live its whole life being poked and prodded and then be discarded like it is not an actual living thing. Studies have even shown that most animals ranging from rats to monkeys show the same amount of emotional range as humans. Even with this information they are still being tortured and traumatized (Goodman “Animal Experiments”). Chemical testing on all animals should be banned. Because there are other ways of testing chemicals and products without harming innocent animals, they should be spared living a tortured life.

Just think for a second. Imagine yourself in a dream and you are locked in a small metal cage, no sunlight or fresh air. You are not able to move around much or even eat when you want, and you are locked in that cage for multiple days at a time. How would you feel? Well that is how these animals feel used for animal testing. Animal testing is a debate topic for that many people have different feelings about. For example, in the article “Animals in Science” says, “Every year in the U.S., over 25 million animals are used in biomedical experimentation, product and cosmetic testing, and science education. This includes dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, pigs, sheep, monkeys, chimpanzees, and more” (neavs). Many see animals as apart of their family who care very much for. Some people even have animals to help them with their disabilities known as a service animal. Others, on the other hand, do not care for animals as much and would rather have them used for advancing medical research. If you don’t know exactly what happens during animal testing allow me to explain. Dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys and other mammals suffer every year. But in most labs the animals used are rabbits, rats, mice, hamsters, and guinea pigs. They all go through multiple tests such as, the Draize eye test. The draize eye test is a test used by cosmetic companies to calculate irritation from the shampoos and other products. The test is done to rabbits which their eyelids are clipped open for multiple days. The product is placed in their eyes and studied for multiple days. Doing so it is not allowing them to run away, rub the product out, or even blink. Although humans benefit from the successful research done, the suffering, pain and deaths of the animals tested are not worth the human benefits. Thus, I believe the testing of products should not be done on animals.

The testing of animals is deemed to be cruel and inhumane because of the way the animals get treated. In the article, “Women Fought for humane treatment of Chicago’s dogs, cats, horses written by Lara Weber describes how the conditions of where these animals lived were. In a Chicago pound for animals, three hundred dogs cried and were extremely cold from the conditions outside (Weber 1). These animals were in terrible conditions and the city should not be proud of it. Within a couple of days these dogs disappeared from the pound unexpectedly and were loaded onto a Santa Fe railroad that was heading for Texas (Weber 2). These animals were probably stolen for a research facility so they could be used for testing. In the next article, “Save The Animals: Stop Animal Testing” written by Heather Dunnuck describes some of the awful tests these animals have to endure throughout their life. “The American Veterinary Medical Association defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience perceived as arising from a specific region of the body and associated with actual or potential tissue damage” (Dunnuck 1). This means the animals are feeling it and are suffering from it. Animals can feel pain just as humans can feel pain. When these animals are used for toxicity or chemical tests it is a painful and deadly test for the animal (Dunnuck 1). Some of the tests the researchers use are the LD50 and the Draize test. In the Draize test the researchers put a substance in the

Many of these inhumane experiments lead to death for many of the cases. Animals are exposed to having to inhale toxic fumes, having a hole drilled in their skull, having their skin burned off, or having to have their spinal cord crushed (PETA). Others are left unable to move on restrained devices for hours, but that is not all, “ They are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them—they are confined to barren in cages, socially isolated, and psychologically traumatized ” (Collins, PETA). This statement indicates animals are being forced to live in the harshest conditions without their needs being met. In other words, their life is taken over and become another simple object to be tested

Animals are treated unreasonably. When we are testing animals we don’t even give them painkillers. So they just sit there in pain. In the labs it’s legal to do whatever you want to the animals. So they might not be even testing. It’s being

Every year, over 100 million animals in the United States are either poisoned, burned, blinded, or abused in laboratories. The animal testing that occurs in the

Animal testing must be banned for unnecessary tests because a lot of animals are dying for no reason. Ninety-four percent of animal testing is done to determine the safety of cosmetics and household products (Animal Testing 1). That only leaves six percent for medical research (1). Ninety percent of all animals used in research are rats and

Everyday animals such as mice, rabbits, monkeys, and even cats and dogs are used for inhumane purposes such as testing and experimentation. “More than 100 million animals every year suffer and die in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as in biology lessons, medical training exercises, and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities.” ("Animal Testing 101." PETA. Web. 13 Oct. 2015. .) These animals are tested by large brands such as Clorox, Avon, Glade and many more. “Mice and rats are forced to inhale toxic fumes, dogs are force-fed pesticides, and rabbits have corrosive chemicals rubbed onto their skin and eyes.” (“Animal Testing 101. “ PETA.)

Animals suffer through a great deal of pain when it comes to animal experimentation, and the tests performed are very unethical. Each year more than 115 million animals are killed in United States laboratories for various amounts of reasons such as

It is estimated that each year 100 million animals in the United States are used for animal testing including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds. Doing research and testing the safety of products on them is a debatable topic. Researchers give pain to animals to make sure that the humans do not suffer from pain. People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques or furthering experimental research. Everyone should agree to stop animal testing because animals have the right to live freely, the pain they have to suffer is incredible, and there are several other alternatives to test products without using animals.