Animal Testing Should Be Banned

Protesting has been going around the world for many of years. Throughout many years of people boycotted agents a situation they believe, if a wrong or right. One of the biggest areas on where people gather around and protest is when they’re fighting agents animals testing. As well as the years has pasted on protesting on animals, it became more sires in increased in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Many cosmetics companies been testing on animals throughout the years there is also many that have not. The cosmetics line LUSH has been fighting over animals testing for over thirty years and will continue to fight for their right according to the company. When LUSH had first started the company had divided they didn 't ever wanted to test their product on animal. Not only fighting agents animals testing LUSH is also ego friendly; everything they use its plants, oil, and recycle. Since LUSH having to be agents animal testing, policies had created to work with the companies of cosmetics to end the cruelty of animals. The LUSH company say “ This can be done without animal testing …” and it true. LUSH is a company that all there product dills with ones skin to make them fell and look beautiful. If LUSH can test their products other than animals and still make your still looking good then, other cosmetics companies can do the same.

Many of America’s favorite go-to skin care products and cosmetics are tested on animals. Despite that, there are products on the market that use alternative testing procedures yet are still considered safe and effective. In the article titled Animal Testing on Cosmetics written by author Ian Murnaghan, the controversy of animal testing in cosmetics is referred to when he says, “The practice is particularly controversial because animals may experience discomfort, suffering and ultimately die, all in the name of aesthetics and 'looking good.’”. Much of what he says in this quote can be applied to extremely popular cosmetic brands like Sephora , Almay, and Revlon who all use animal testing to build their products to maximum use. Brands that compare to these are ELF, Too Faced, and Physicians Formula who all claim to using alternative procedures to show the importance of being

Many people have a pet in which they would never want to get hurt. Each year in the United States, over seventy million animals are hurt and killed due to scientific research. Many brands have taken the pledge to become cruelty free, but there are still multiple brands that are continuing to use animals to test their products. Animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, often ineffective, can not detect for many diseases that humans are exposed to, and can be unsafe due to the differences between animals and humans.

The issue of whether of not the United States should ban animal testing in cosmetics incorporates several factors from each side of the argument, which make the matter extremely complex; however, ultimately, a ban could and

“More than 100 million animal die every year from animal testing” (PETA). Think if your pet was killed just so a medication could be tested that would later be unsuccessful in humans. “If the atrocious acts were committed outside labs they would be felonies. But animals every day suffer and die in laboratories with little or no protection from cruelty” (PETA). You wouldn’t want your pets to die so why let these animals

“Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing” (PETA 1). For a countless amount of years companies, scientists, biology teachers, and plenty of other people have been using animals for animal experimentation. There are many people are for animal testing when it comes to testing for medical reasons, but when it comes to testing for cosmetics several people oppose animal testing. Tons and tons of animals are killed each year due to animal experimentation, and it is time to put it to an end. When it comes

”More than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments each year” (About Animal Testing). Animal testing has been used since the BC years, and it is used to understand and compare how things might affect the human body. In 1937, a pharmaceutical company released a drug that was poisonous to humans unknowingly. It ended up poisoning many people, and resulted in several deaths. After this incident, experiments on animals became more important in the medical world (Hajar, Rachel). Animal testing should be illegal, because it is unfair, inhumane, and morally wrong.

Did you know that more than 100 million animals are abused and killed every year in labs all around the world? Animals are used every day to test products and treatments for humans. For years humans have been using animals for testing. These animals are hurt in many different ways, including inhalation of toxic fumes, force-feeding pesticides, and dripping corrosive chemicals into sensitive eyes. Animal testing should be made illegal because animal testing is cruel, there are better ways to test products, and animals’ bodies differ from ours.

The act of testing cosmetic and household products on animals is inhumane. Animals have rights also, and for humans to test products on them for their benefit is heartbreaking. The use of rabbits being used to test shampoo and mascara in their eyes blinds them. The European Union and Israel have banned cosmetic and cosmetic ingredients being tested on animals in their country. Those countries have also banned imports with cosmetics tested on other animals from other countries. China is slowly making the decision to ban animal testing for cosmetics as well. India has temporarily banned the testing of cosmetics and household products on animals, and is permanently in effect in November 2014. According to Peta, “Unfortunately, things

Approximately twenty-six million animals are used every year in the United States for scientific and consumer research. These animals are used to test products that many people use everyday. The animals are used to test toxicity, consumer products, medical devices, and new drugs. The Federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulates animal testing in the United States. The AWA defines an “animal” as any live or dead dog, cat, monkey, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit, and other warm-blooded animals. The AWA does not protect 95% of these animals. The Act excludes animals such as, birds, rats, mice, reptiles, and most fish. While the AWA regulates the housing and transportation of animals used for research, it does not regulate the experiments themselves. Even though the AWA regulates the housing, the facilities are most often horrific. A new and upcoming alternative methods are being put in to place so fewer animals can be used in experimentations. Animal testing should be stopped because new alternative methods are being developed, the testing facilities are unsuitable, it is costly, not time efficient, and the researchers are not following the laws set in place by the United States government (Robinson, 1).

As you walk into your nearest CVS Pharmacy or Walgreen’s to pick up that bottle of shampoo, your medication, or the makeup brand you may use, have you ever stopped to consider what may have happened to innocent animals in order for you to be able to purchase these products? Many people see animals as companions; however, according to a 2013 Gallup Poll, 56% of the U.S. sees them as a means to further scientific research. (Gallup Poll) Yet, the fact remains: animals are being tested on by a myriad of cosmetics brands and research facilities. Animal testing is unethical and needs to be banned, as thousands of animals suffer serious injuries due to the process of experimentation, as well as the fact that American taxpayers pay millions for research purposes that may not be applicable to humans.

Every day in Australia, poor creatures of the animal species are struggling for survival, given no food or water, left in unsanitary conditions and being poisoned by hazardous chemicals, but what for? Animal product testing. The cruel and inhumane ways of testing cosmetic products on animals is considered harsh and barbaric. What can be done to these animals has no limit as they have little hope spending their days lacking the care and attention they deserve. Imagine being locked up in a small metal cage with no food or water, stripped of your freedom. During the experiments, most animals die and the lucky ones who survive are still shortly killed after. Animal experimenting is a cruel alternative of testing cosmetic products and it must definitely be banned.

Our decision to purchase the products we do rely on many aspects including propaganda, popularity and the awareness that the products are reliable. Informing the public of the process the products go through in order to be sold could spark a relationship between the products consumers intend to buy ((Madar, A., Huang, H. H., & Tseng, T. 2013). Some may argue that the consumers do not need to know the process only that the product is safe, because it is what is important. That is simply ignoring the problem and continuing with an unethical practice that in many cases does not meet with the Animal Welfare Act. Companies find loopholes to use animal testing because the Animal Welfare Act excludes “the most-used species” (Orlans, F. Barbara. "The Injustice of Excluding Laboratory Rats, Mice, and Birds from the Animal Welfare Act."). The opposing side debates that these laboratory animals are necessary for product use. There justification is that these animals do not experience the same pain as humans do. What they fail to see is that the reason they are most commonly tested on is because they similarity they share with humans. If a medication soothes a patient the same way it soothed the animal, then it can be concluded that the same pain was once

My thesis is that animal testing should be banned from our society altogether. Animal rights advocates argue that testing is a subject that has been argued countless amount of times in medical journals, and it has shown that it is a waste of animal lives. Subsequently, processing of a single drug requires more than 50 trials and use of as many as 12,000 animals. Moreover, regardless of the ethical issues that derive from animal testing, the infliction of physical/psychological distress on animals are resource and time deterring. Furthermore, animal experimentation provides a source of limited knowledge of how certain chemicals would behave in a human body. (Humane Society International).

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