Animal Testing Clorox, Johnson & Johnson, Covergirl, Colgate; all of these bands are well known and very popular. They also are four of the biggest name brands that still test their products on animals before selling them in stores. Organizations like People for Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA have been exposing and discouraging the support of these companies. This helps discourage companies to not animal test, which they should not. Companies should not test products on animals because
Should we be testing on animals? This topic is important because there is a lot of debate around it. Some people say it's cruel and inhumane, and that animals have rights too. On the other hand, there are people who say it has a positive outcome because we have discovered new ways to cure fatal diseases and improve our medicines. Currently, people still use animals for medical and cosmetics testing. About 26 million animals are used for testing each year. Animal testing has been going on since about
Millions of animal every year are killed by testing, shooting, and eating them. They are tested on and when killed they just throw them away like trash. When they are being tested on, they suffer, and I just can’t imagine what they go through. They have to leave their homes, family, and friends. I wanted to research this because I love animals and want to help them. I believe they shouldn’t be tested on or killed just for fun, when they are tested on they test products like makeup and medicine
happens to animals every day from cosmetic companies who test their products on animals. According to Cruelty Free Kitty (2017), over 30 cosmetic companies continue to use animal testing to improve their products. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2017), “the agency has consistently advised cosmetic manufactures to employ whatever testing is appropriate and effective for substantiating the safety of their products.” This means that if the company believes animal testing is the best
An estimate of 1.4 million animals die each year due to animal testing. As people we have freedom, choice, and the right to live, however animals have a right to live in a world without suffering just as much as we do. Animals just like humans have emotions, thoughts, and feelings, so what makes it right to test on animals any more than to perform tests on humans? The benefits of testing on animals has still not been proven as the treatments that show promise in animals rarely work on humans. There
Equality For Animals The benefits of animal testing can be beneficial yet catastrophic at the same time. In order to see whether a product is safe for human use or to find a cure for infectious human diseases, animals seem to become expendable. Every year close to 130 million animals succumb to pain, suffering, and death worldwide as scientific experiments are conducted to dissolve humanities issues according to an article on Faunalytics. The lives of other living creatures should not be abused
Animal testing is a controversial topic in today’s society, much more than it was 100’s of years ago. Testing on animals was practiced long ago, and is still practiced today. Greek writings about vivisection [the dissection of a live organism] can be found dated as early as 500 BC. At that time, in Ancient Rome and Alexandria, and later in Greece, vivisection was originally practiced on human criminals, but prohibitions on the mutilation of the human body soon arose. This caused a reliance on animals
experiments on specific animals. The data recovered led to a discovery that certain species’ genetic, biological and behavioral characteristics closely resemble those of the human race, allowing us to replicate many symptoms of human conditions. Although animal experimentation may seem morally wrong, as one of the
Animal testing is something that is extremely prevalent in our world. It is crucial for any medical issues and many other day-to-day things we do and use. People, though, do not like the fact that we kill innocent animals everyday. In our society, there is a lot of animal abuse. It is sanctioned and legal to test on animals, even if that means that we harm and abuse animals. There is no limit to how much the animals are harmed because they are not protected by laws since testing is completely legal
Animals are the safest way to research the effect of experimental situations. Experiments have been using animal testing since the 16th century. Animal testing has saved billions and billions of human lives from harmful sickness and dangerous surgeries. Most people have only ever heard the negative stories surrounding animal testing but there are thousands of positive stories that should be taken into account. The discovery of lifesaving treatments; such as insulin, was first tested on animals