Animal Testing Pros

Millions of animals every year are being used in labs to test cosmetics. This problem has become a worldwide issue and the U.S. needs to make a change by prohibiting the use of animals in testing cosmetics for safe use.

Imagine being born, only to live a life of torture. You are brought to a lab, and cruelly tested on against your will. Toxins poured into your eyes, painful injections to your skin, then left to die when you’re no longer useful. Although many do not realize it, people use products tested on animals in their everyday lives. For girls, many of your favorite makeup brands, such as Estee Lauder, Makeup Forever, and Maybelline take part in animal testing. Products such as toothpaste, cologne, deodorant, laundry detergent, razors, and even band-aids aren’t tested innocently, either. As a makeup enthusiast, I am passionate about how the products I use daily are tested. Today I will help you understand what animal testing is and how it started, how it’s currently affecting animals around the world, and what organizations are doing to help make a difference in the future. To begin, I will explain the history of animal testing. An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm.(https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/why-we-do-it/what-animal-testing) Animal experiments are not the same as taking your animal to the vet. Animals used in laboratories are harmed, not for their own good, and usually killed at the end of an experiment. Animal experiments include injecting or force feeding animals with potentially harmful substances, exposing animals to radiation,

Animal testing is harsh and brutal treatment. These innocent animals are force fed, deprived of food and water, locked up for long periods of time, inflicted with burns, wounds and pain from the recovery process, and even killed. Cosmetic companies will often spray or apply products to the eyes of animals to make

The cosmetic industry continues to compose a large part of society for several centuries, dating all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. The $160 billion-a-year global industry encompasses products such as make-up, skin and hair care, fragrances, cosmetic surgery, health clubs, and diet pills. With the recent surge of both affordable and luxury products flooding the markets, “Americans [are] [spending more each year on beauty than they do on education,” allowing distributors, such as Sephora, to turn a large profit (The Economist). Nevertheless, many of these state-of-the-art products are subjects of animal testing. Animal testing for cosmetics products allows distributors to carry innovative products and high-demanded

A human body and an animal body are not the same. According to the HSI (Humane Society International), different species react differently to different chemicals and powders used in cosmetics and what an animal might experience or react to is not the same as a human. This proves that animal testing is unreliable and wasteful. Animal testing is also very expensive. The US National Institute of Health spends about $14 billion out of its $31 billion budget on animal testing and research proving to be very costly and inefficient for research or production in other areas.

Animal testing is still done by cosmetic companies even though it is unethical and scientifically inaccurate. The various tests carried out on animals is not a guarantee for using cosmetics on our skin since animals react differently to certain chemicals as compared to humans. Cosmetics companies kill millions of animals every year in pursuit of profit. The animals that suffer and die in these laboratories range from rabbits to mice. According to companies that perform such tests, they are done to establish the safety of products and ingredients. However, no law requires that cosmetics products be tested on animals. The Food and Drug

irritation tests where chemicals are rubbed on shaved skin or dripped into the eyes without any pain

For years, the French cosmetic company L’Oréal has coined the slogan, “Because you’re worth it.” However, a look behind the scenes of the cosmetic industry as a whole begs the question: is it really worth it? Over a hundred million animals ranging from mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, and dogs, are locked in laboratories across the U.S. and are subjected to chemical, food, cosmetic, and medical tests for human benefit (“Animal Testing 101”). Many of these animals are severely mistreated, and bear the pain of procedures gone wrong. On the flip side, products and medicines have been made safer and more reliable due to the positive contributions of laboratory tests. The issue has sparked over the last several years, leading many people to

” Today, more animals are being used in experiments than ever before: around 100 million in the United States alone” (3). Animal testing is now an international issue, and it is becoming a major story. Currently, animals are often used in medical testing, make-up testing, and other consumer product testing. Animals used in such product testing are often abused and suffer from serious side-effects. Animal testing can be painful for the animals, testing results are usually not even useable for humans, and there are other testing methods available. Consequently, animals should not be used for any make-up products or medical testing.

Much progress has been made to end this testing, gearing the world into the right direction of animal testing free procedures, though, not everyone is on board. The United States have yet to hop onto the train toward a free animal testing future. The United States continues to test on animals for cosmetics even though there are numerous ways to test, without using animals, that are more efficient and effective than animal testing. (3D tissue samples of corneas made from human cells can be used instead of using an animal organ when testing for cosmetics side effects.) What is worse than the United States still testing on animals, is that there is continued demand for even more animal

For every ingredient put into a product an animal goes though testing for it pain relief is rarely provided and the animals used are always killed at the end of each test (Humane Society.Org). Some makeup brands that continue to test on animals are MAC, Dior, and Tom Ford just to name a few the list goes on (Companies That Test on Animals). It does not stop at makeup other everyday used things test on animals such as, hair products, skin care, and soap. People have to take a moment and think about how much an animal suffered just to make their cheeks blush. On top of the cruelty, up to 90% of animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the official statistics of animals tested (Do Something.Org). Exact numbers are not available because mice, rats, birds, and cold-blooded animals—who make up more than 99 percent of animals used in experiments—are not covered by even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act and therefore go uncounted (Peta.Org). Accounting for the real number of animals including those not covered by the Animal Welfare Act would cause those numbers to look outrageously high. There should be supervised labs to ensure that the animals are not getting treated worse than they already are. Supervised labs would secure the animals are being cared for properly and are as comfortable as they can be while they are being tested on. The lab tests have long term damage some animals to develop neurotic types of behavior such as incessantly spinning in

Around the world, there has been an enduring controversial issue and that is animal testing and research. Since the beginning of medicine, animals were used in the testing of drugs, vaccines, and medical devices to determine the safety of a product due to their similarities in diseases with humans. However this is considered unnecessary due to the creation of alternatives for animal testing. Despite these alternatives the majority of animal testing still has not come to halt. This issue deserves to be attentive to instead of turning a blind eye as we consumers have always done dragging the issue and understand how our products are developed. The audience for this topic is generally people who are consumers of products and UTA students. In

Opponents towards animal testing discuss that because of the tests that people rely on for animal testing information include a range of imperfections, then why should we have animals constantly tortured and killed for invaluable information? A greater portion of the animals used during the testing process are either killed during the process or die once the experiments are over. If the animals do not die at either of these points during the process, they can then be used during more research ("Questions and Answers"). Ultimately, we have animals dying for inadequate research. We should no longer depend on animal experimentation that does not guarantee benefiting human health. While, on the other side of the argument, pro-animal testing individuals

The creation of a new product, should not cause animals to suffer and die. Because humans want a new lip color or a new type of eyeliner, does not mean that numerous animals should be immensely tortured and at times to death. Many argue that in order to ensure the safety of a product, animal testing is necessary. However, in today’s scientific world, this is not true. Many people argue that animal testing is cheaper, but according to Consumers ' Research Magazine writer Beatrice Hunter, it costs 500,000 dollars per product to test something using animals, as opposed to alternatives, which cost on average 50 dollars per product.

One of the leading industries in the United States is the cosmetics business. When cosmetics started up people were applying all different types of product to their bodies. While using the products, people were starting to acquire serious injuries to their skin and hair. This forced make-up producers to figure out a way to test the products before it hit the market. In the 1940s, scientists started to use animals for testing purposes. In recent years, testing on animals has decreased because producers use safer ingredients in their products. Even though there are safe ingredients, people continue to experiment with new chemicals and dyes. To avoid major lawsuits, companies still experiment on animals to prove the product is safe. With all these new products, the Food and Drug