Have you ever seen a cruelty free symbol in the shape of a rabbit on the back of a shampoo bottle? That means the bottle’s contents were made without it being tested on an animal first. But what if the symbol wasn’t on the bottle? Have you ever thought of what would happen to that bunny you would usually see in a pet store? To answer this question, commonly, animals put through experimentation are put through force feeding, food deprivation, and inflictions of wounds. That bunny probably is not okay right now. Cosmetic companies all over the world endanger the lives of animals to test toxicity and irritation of products. In order to test these characteristics, the products are placed on the skin and eyes of animals. If a rash occurs, or if …show more content…
This gives humans a superiority, which leads them to believe that harming animals does not need consent and is allowed. Therefore, animal testing should be illegal because the harming of helpless animals although they are capable of experiencing pain, is immoral. It also gives an unnecessary feeling of superiority to those inflicting the pain upon them. (Arguments) (Animals) Animal experimentation has proven to be barbaric so far, but did you know it could also be unreliable? ¨94 percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials.¨ (Animal) To accurately test drugs for the safety of the human race, animals would need to be extremely similar to humans, however that is not the case. For example, animals do not get as many diseases as humans do, such as alzheimer 's or HIV, drugs like as aspirin could be fatal to animals, and foods, like chocolate or macadamia nuts are poisonous to dogs. Humans, as we all know, experience the opposite. Also, ¨using rodents such as rats, to test the safeness of a drug is only error-free 43 percent of the time. ¨(Arguments) In a laboratory there can be multiple variables causing the drug tested to be unreliable. For example, if the animal is stressed, it can influence the results of the test. ¨Stressed rats, for example, develop chronic inflammatory conditions and intestinal leakage, which add variables that can confound data.¨(Akhtar) Therefore, using animals to test if drug is safe for
The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel and inhumane but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia. There have been past occasions where drugs passed on animals weren’t even safe. There is no excuse for animal testing in today’s techy world, there are now many alternatives for animal testing that would put an end to the pain and suffering endured by these innocent animals during human testing.
A rabbit lives its life trapped in a laboratory. It doesn’t get fresh air and has different products tested on it every day. The product can make the rabbit go blind or cause its skin to burn, but there is nothing the rabbit can do about it. This is what 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 option for their product they are allowed to do it. Testing cosmetics on animals is cruel and inhumane, and people should avoid using products that test on animals.
As of 2015, 200 to 225 million animals are said to used in laboratory research for the biomedical industry annually worldwide. Typically defended by arguments of reliability and human health benefits, recently the question of ethics and values placed on animal testing have caused it to become a relevant and pressing topic that has been more widely discussed and debated. First off, the laboratory conditions that are instigated upon millions of animal models for the sake of medical research has been said to be unethical and cruel. Additionally, it has been debated that the results of animal experimentation are unreliable across a wide range of areas. Lastly, animal testing not only leads away from the direction of resources from more effective testing methods but also prolongs the duration of time humans may need to wait for an effective cure. Therefore, the potential benefits of animal experimentation are greatly outweighed by the risks and collective harm of humans and animals which is why resources should be directed towards more human-based testing procedures.
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,
To begin with, animal experimentation provides unreliable test results because of the differences between animals and humans. In the article, Animal Testing is Not Essential for Medical Research, Ray C. Greek and Jean Swingle Greek said,”More than half of the medications released between 1976 and 1985 were taken off the market or relabeled because dangerous side effects were discovered that had not been found in animal experiments.” Many drugs have been found to have unpredicted side effects so testing on animals just shows researchers what the drug would do to animals, not humans. Since the point of animal testing is to test the effectiveness and results of a drug, it
The animal testing debate is centered on animal rights and moral status of animals. Some people believe that animals have a moral status, and it is unethical to subject them to unnecessary pain and abuse. Some people have kept animals such as dogs and cats and look upon them as part of their family. Ethicists feel that humans have no right to kill animals, subjecting them to human services or using them as means to achieve their selfish goals. I concur that animals have some moral status and rights, but people are more important than animals. It is morally right to use
Each year, thousands of animals are brutally tortured in laboratories, in the name of cosmetic research. A movement to ban animal testing for cosmetic purposes has been gaining popularity, with many companies hopping on the bandwagon against this research. New alternatives have been developed to eliminate the necessity to test on animals. This is only a small beginning of what is necessary to end these immoral acts. Animal testing in cosmetics is useless and cruel, and can be accomplished by other methods of research to end the suffering of animals.
The harmaful uses of animals in testing is not only cruel but often ineffective. Animals do not have the many types of cancers humans enconter, or HIV, Parkinson's diease even Schizophrenia. Many animals receive testing for different substances that is never actually seen approved for public use or consumption. It seems that the animals tested dies in vain because there is no direct benefit for humans. In animal testing, countless animal are experimented on and then they are killed after their use. Others are injured and will steal live their remainder of life in captivity. 95 percent of drugs fail in human trials
According to ( Animal Testing and the Law), There are legal tests that include burning, poisoning, starving, forced smoking, mutilating, blinding, electrocuting, drowning, and dissecting innocent animals without painkillers. We allow animal testing to happen all the time to animals, even baby animals! We animal test on cosmetics, medicines, foods, etc. For example, a person decides to test on an animal for a cure to a new disease, it could kill the animal or make it really sick. Testing cures in animals is cruel and inhumane. They shove medicine and other devices down an animals throat or forcefully into the animals body. We don’t recognize that animals, big or small, have feelings and a life too! Scientists who test on animals as their subjects are mean to the animals and force them to do things they don’t want to do. (Sing Animals for Testing), says that in animal testing, countless animals are experimented on and then killed after their use or during the experiment. Other animals are injured and will still live the remainder of their lives in
Despite the fact that the scientific world continues to embrace the use of animal testing, many scientists consider this act barbaric and ruthless (Food and Drug Administration 34). They go ahead to argue that the reliability and validity of this method are significantly questionable because to use an animal to predict how a certain product will react to human beings has a lot of uncertainty. In addition to that, some drugs may work excellently in animals and terribly fail in human beings. A good example is Thalidomide in Germany in the 1970s, which had been tested on a number of animals in their thousands and was declared safe for human use and released in the market in 1950s. It was a highly rated sedative for breastfeeding and pregnant mothers because the scientists involved argued that it affects neither the mother nor the child (Hackman 123). Never the less, most children whose mothers had embraced the use of Thalidomide were born with extreme deformation across the world. Another good example on how unreliable animal experiments are is Clioquinol. This drug was declared safe in stopping or controlling diarrhea in 1970s in Japan. Ironically, this drug was a catalyst in causing diarrhea and as a result many people died in thousands and many others remained blind. In addition to the examples above, the medical journal in Britain evaluated a number of scientific reviews concerning the
Animal testing has been going on for years; however, few question the ethics of testing medicines that would cure human diseases on animals. Various animals being tested in labs and cruelly force them to be a host of harmful diseases negatively affect their health. Animal testing is cruel and unusual punishment and should discontinue. Animal experimentation is a subject that many know of but don’t know much about. Although it is a big topic, people still don’t pay much attention to it because of their lack of information. Experimenting is a cruel process that causes many innocent animals to suffer. Many cases of violations towards experimenting have been found as well. Testing on animals is unnecessary when laying down the
Specific evidence points that animal testing should not be allowed; however the debate is also on moral grounds. Several people, about 60% of the population, agree that animal testing should be banned because it is just wrong. To be born into the world on a concrete floor and be made to lead a life with no freedom is worse than having no life. They have no chance to stop the pain or torment, simply because they are “just animals.” Animal activists and everyday people believe that humans are voices for the animals. Therefore, animal testing is considered ethically wrong and people should act as the advocate for the animals.
Animal research isn’t accurate and shouldn’t be used for animal testing. No human would like to be tested on so why do we test on the helpless animals that doesn 't bring in accurate information . The cure for animals isn 't the same as it is in humans there body is developed differently compared to ours. Animal testing is being doubted why do you ask ? “ drugs developed using mice have to date had 100% failure rate in almost
Currently, there are millions of rats, cats, dogs, rabbits, and many other animals that are trapped inside cages in labs around the country. They suffer badly as their bodies ache and they are lonely and long to be free. These animals hope that one day they will be set free as they must wait in fear for the next experimentation to begin. The conditions the animals are put through are harsh and usually cause the organism to have strange behaviours such as pulling out their hair or biting at their own skin. They are so scared that every time someone walks by, they jump, scared to death that it's their turn to be tortured. Even after going through these many situations, most of these animals end up dead. Animal testing is extremely immoral and unethical as it causes the suffering of animals when in fact, the results are almost always inaccurate killing millions of animals. Most of the animals that are put in the test almost never show accurate results. As well, there are many other alternatives that can be used instead of the murder of all these living organisms that have done nothing to deserve it. These efforts are usually less expensive and don’t occur at the cost of a living organism. Therefore, due to animal rights and ethical issues, alternative methods, and the unreliability of test results in humans, animal testing must be prohibited for use in today’s research, treatments and products.
However, there have been many scientific research and examples that illustrates companies do not actually need animals in order to produce high end products without jeopardizing someone’s health. One example is the company, Lush, whose business revolved into a popular franchise amidst them marketing themselves as an animal cruelty-free, organic beauty company. The words “animal cruelty” may not have any emotional meaning to you, as there are only two simple words. However, those words hold the world of tremendous pain inflicted on inculpable animals, who cannot defend themselves, except to cry out, hoping for a change. The pain which animals go through during cosmetics testing is unimaginable and horrific, yet it appears as if no one cares, as the majority of the world seems to rather look outwardly beautifully than to look the negative impact of their products. They don’t realize that in order for lipsticks and hair dye to be made “a tube is thrust down the throat of thousands of squirrel monkeys who are squished together in cages, and force fed the item to find out at which dosage level the animal dies.” (Gandhi.) They don’t know that to make shampoo, “A rabbit’s head is clamped in a clutch and their eyes are pegged open with metal clips while shampoo concentrate is dropped in until they die breaking their back struggling.” (Gandhi.) What they also don’t know is that companies engineer brutal torture to numerous of animals without sympathy and remorse, until the animal dies or until they achieve their goal. This is the reality of the cosmetic industry’s patronizing actions cosmetics industry against animals. As society start to recongnize that this should not be a reality for any living being, it becomes their first step in understanding why cosmetic testing should be banned from