Why Animal Testing Is Wrong

Every single year one hundred million animals or more are tested on to “advance” pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and other products but the vast majority, up to 92%, of the time they fail on humans in clinical trials. These animals are not only tested on but are usually given lethal doses, crippled, abused, and eventually killed. The Animal Welfare Act is in effect but the animals protected by it can still be tested on because a valid alternative is not required by law. One of the most well-known tests is the Draize irritation test where an animal, most often a rabbit or rodent of some sort, is held down with their eyes fixed open while a new product is dripped into

Gerhard Zbinden, a toxicologist described that “the testing of just one substance can involve using up to 800 animals.” The pain and suffering that the large amount of these animals go through is not worth the possible benefits to humans. When animals are used for product toxicity testing or laboratory research, they are forced to undergo painful and deadly experiments. The most common product safety tests are the Draize test and the LD50 test. Rats and mice are usually used for this experiment. Since both trials are the most painful and deadly of all, they are often avoided but still performed. During an LD50 test, tubes are attached to the esophagus of the stomach and force fed chemical products, causing the animals to then suffer with discomfort and pain throughout different parts of the body. The Draize test determines the consequences of getting a chemical into a human’s eyes. In order to determine the eye irritancy of a product, scientists place it into a rabbit’s eyes and look out for eye damage. Specifically, swelling, redness, bleeding, and blindness. After performing the Draize test, rabbits’ either often bleed or become blind. They experience these symptoms for up to 14 days until they are evaluated for further internal damage. When performing the Draize and LD50 test, animals are expected to fail. Though, some take days and even weeks to die. During their weeks of slowly dying, the animals’ experience vomiting, diarrhea, and internal bleeding. Because so many animals are forced to go through these intensely painful test runs, animals experimentation ought to end to prevent wate of animals

There are many different tests that are performed on animals. According to The Humane Society of The United States (n.d), “it is estimated that 500,000 mice, guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits suffer and die in these tests every year throughout the world.” 500,000 innocent animals are used to improve cosmetic company’s products. One example of a test performed on animals are skin irritation/corrosion. According to the Humane Society of The United States (n.d.), “The test substance is applied to the shaved skin of a rabbit. Their skin may show signs of redness, rash,

Every year about 241,000 rabbits are tortured in United States laboratories to test for the effects that household products, such as cosmetics, dishwashing liquid, and drain cleaner will have on their eyes ("Rabbits in Laboratories | PETA.org." 1). Scientists will drip chemicals into the eyes of the animal to see how much irritation it will cause, a process known as the Draize eye irritancy test ("Rabbits in Laboratories | PETA.org." 1). The test is certainly not pain free; it often causes distress, such as redness, swelling, and sometimes blindness. After the rabbits are finished being toyed with, they are killed ("Rabbits in Laboratories | PETA.org." 1). The Draize eye irritancy test is just one of the thousands of examples of profuse

Animal testing is cruel and inhumane. According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process, the infliction of pain to study its effects and remedies, and "killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means." [47] The Draize eye test, used by cosmetics companies to evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products, involves rabbits being incapacitated in stocks with their eyelids held open by clips, sometimes for multiple days, so they cannot blink away the products being tested. [48][49] The commonly used LD50 (lethal dose 50) test involves finding out which dose of a chemical will kill 50% of the animals being used in the experiment. [65][102] The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2016 that 71,370 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,272 nonhuman primates, 5,771 rabbits, 24,566 guinea pigs, and 33,280 hamsters. [121]

Cosmetic animal testing is at all time high. Makeup has never been more popular than before. This means new products come out on a weekly bases. People see new products, they do not see the animal dying, just so they could get a new safe product. While many brands have joined the ranks of cruelty free, those include NYX, others still use animals to test products. The Draize Eye Test is used for cosmetic animal testing. This test causes horrible irritation. As Katrinack has said, this test causes "redness, ulcers, and even blindness." (FriendsOfAnimals.org. Date Accessed: 20 May 2017.) There is an alternative to these horrible irritation tests. The alternative is called the Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability Test. This alternative involves absolutely no animals. This procedure only involves

Did you know animal testing is really bad for animals? People burn, poison and shock helpless animals everyday just so they can collect a tiny bit of data. Why would people waste their time everyday abusing animals? We need to stop this kind of research because animals are getting brutally hurt, it is happening illegally and is often unregulated, and also most animal testing is ineffective on humans.

Testing on animals is inhumane and strongly unfair. The animals that are chosen have no voice and are unaware of what is going to happen to them once they enter the testing labs. The animals that the company decides to test on are usually stray or are from pounds (Judson). Chosen animals are forced fed, locked up in kennels for long periods of time, and are severely wounded (Judson). There are many different types of tests that are done on the animals. The Draize Eye Test is considered one of the most cruel tests (Procon.org) . The test has the chosen rabbits hold

"The American Veterinary Medial Association defines animal 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" (Orlans, 1933). Just as us, animals feel pain and react the same ways. For example, just as we scream when we are injured, animals do the same exact thing. When animals are forcefully used for any type of product toxicity or lab research, they become subjected to the frequent agonizing pain that these experiments bring upon them. Some of the two most commonly used toxicity tests are the Draize test and the LD50 test, both of which are infamous for the intense pain and suffering they inflect upon experimental animals. During the Draize test, the substance or product that is being tested is poured onto the eyes of the animal being that is being tested on. In most cases, it is more than likely that a rabbit is being used for this test. Next, the scientist(s) closely monitor the animal for any signs of damage to its cornea and any other tissues in or near its eye. The whole process of this test is an immense amount of pain for the animal to go through. As a result of the Draize test, animals suffer from blindness, scarring, and even death which is the reason it has been criticized for being a waste of animal life and for being an unreliable

A research was done and the results were, “ The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in 2010 that 97,123 animals suffered pain during experiments while being given no anesthesia for relief, including 1,395 primates, 5,996 rabbits, 33,652 guinea pigs, and 48,015 hamsters.” (animal-testing) Animals get no say in what’s being done to them. The scientists can only observe results not ask questions so all animals being tested on are either being tortured or killed. A creatures life is being ruined and wasted just to improve the appearance of another. These animals could be loved in homes as pets or who knows maybe in the wild living their lives in a natural habitat but instead they are being force fed or water deprived or getting their fur disintegrated by harsh chemicals. Just because the animals can’t say stop or express in words

In the United States over 25 million invertebrate has been used for testing yearly, and that is just for the U.S alone. The animals that are used in these labs are rats,, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, farm animals, birds, cats, dogs,, and non-human primates (monkeys, and in some countries, chimpanzees). Scientists use animals to test cosmetics, drugs, pesticides, household products, and industrial chemicals just to name a few. An example of animal

Animal testing is inhumane because most animals used in laboratories, were bred specifically for laboratory use, so basically, they were created to live gruesome, painful, lives. As stated by PETA, in the United

Test animals are subjected to intense pain and suffering like burn, scrape and infection. A perfectly fine rabbit is shaved and chemicals are rubbed onto its bare skin or eye irritation tests is performed by dripping chemicals into its eyes without any pain relief. Repeated oral force-feeding studies are conducted to look for signs of general illness or health hazards like cancer or birth defects. Sometimes these animals are also forced to swallow massive amounts of chemical to determine the maximum dose that can cause death. The saddest part of this is these tests can take weeks or even months to come up with a result and these poor animals are tortured every day to get to that result. At the end of the test, most of the animals are killed either by neck-breaking or decapitation and in some cases if they can be reused for other experiments, they are abused

Animal testing causes unimaginable suffering. Many animals used in experiments are force feeding and go through a long physical pain like the infliction of burn and other wounds to study the study the healing process. The cosmetics companies use the Draize eye test, that help evaluate irritation caused by shampoos and other products. Rabbits are more commonly use for this test and their eyelids are held open by clips for many days so they do not blink away the product being

In the skin irritancy test the chemical is applied directly onto the shaved skin of a animal.