Who here thinks bunnies are cute? That’s because they are cute, but they are also being used in the cosmetic field to be experimented on. But bunnies are not the only ones. The humane society released a census that states that all over the world, 100,000-200,000 animals are suffering and dying due cosmetic testing alone ,and these animals include mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and hamsters. In 2017, this is a practice that should have been ditched a long time ago, but because it is still something utilized today it is important that we know how to help put an end to this.
I. Animals can endure so much pain at the hands of an experimenter and are never even given pain relievers, in fact, at the end of the test, they are usually killed.
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During this experiment an injection is given under the animal’s skin and can cause skin irritation, redness, or ulcers.
During a test to find the cause of eye irritation, a substance is applied to the corneas of 1 to 3 rabbits. Usually after this test is conducted their eyes can bleed, they can suffer irreversible eye damage, and lose sight completely.
With the amount of animal lives cosmetic testers go through each day, you would think that there is no other way around it, except that there is.
II. There are many alternatives to animal testing in cosmetics and Cruelty Free International or CFI, states that there are there are many alternatives that are actually more cost effective. 1.) There are computer models which could imitate how a human skin cell will react to certain chemicals thanks to the Human Genome Project.
B. According to CFI, we possess the mathematical data and information to conduct virtual experiments. 2.) If online experiments don’t sound as concrete to you, there is human tissue alternatives. Skin and other tissue can be donated post-surgery or post-mortem and used to conduct
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Companies like Episkin, Mattek and CellSystems GmbH can easily provide cosmetic companies with kits consisting of real human tissue to test their products according to CFI. 3.) If for some reason none of these sound better than animal testing to you, then my final alternative to animal testing in cosmetics is to use volunteers. The Hasting Center reports that human subjects are not just a cruelty free alternative, but it is actually more reliable to use humans when researching the effects of a product have on
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Animal testing should not be used in cosmetic industries as a source of experimentation because it is unethical and inefficient. It is a cruel way of trying to find results that are not even always trustworthy. Everyone has a different reaction to different chemicals so why even bother animals for testing? Also different species can respond differently when exposed to the same chemical so animal testing can be inefficient. The results from animal tests can be quite variable and difficult to interpret therefore it may not be applicable to human beings. Thus, consumer safety still cannot be guaranteed even after these gruesome tests which are totally unethical. It is also unethical to torture and end the lives of these animals each year for our own luxury. Everyday cosmetic industries are using defenseless animals very cruelly just to carry out some most often useless tests. Instead they should use other alternatives which has been proved to yield better and accurate results than tests involving animals.
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]
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One alternative is using life-like computerized human-patient simulators. These simulators breathe, bleed, convulse, talk and even “die”. They can be used instead of animals in product/cosmetic testing. In fact, 97% of medical schools across the United States have replaced animals with simulators. However, for some reason many companies still test on animals, even though there are many solutions to this cruel testing including
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
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
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 might say that animal testing has proven results for the safety of beauty products and cosmetics. Although, in some cases it is helpful, why would you want to use such an old outdated method of research in 2017 many more methods have opened up due to advanced technology. Animal testing dates back to the 1900’s and yet in the 21st-century companies are still doing this even though it is more costly than alternative methods.
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.
Animal testing has long played a part in the science of testing, and it still plays a very important role in the medical world. Testing on animals in order to create a cure for AIDS is one thing, but testing on animals for human vanity is another. Animal testing is used to test the safety of a product. It has kept some very unsafe substances out of the cosmetic world. However, in this day in age, animal testing is not the only way to test the safety of a product. Animal testing in cosmetics has decreased over the years. However, it is still used by many companies in America. Animal testing is not only cruel, but it is also unnecessary in today’s advanced scientific world.
Millions of animals are being unneedlessly tested on for cosmetics, even though there are plenty of alternatives available and most of the results are unreliable or not applicable to humans. Although the fight against animal testing has made huge progress recently, America has yet to stop this cruel practice and chooses to torture animals while other countries are making a stop to the testing (“Animal Testing 101”).
The skin is then monitored for irritation. This test is also inconclusive in the skin makeup of an animal differs greatly from that of a human. The amount of absorption between the two different skin types will have an influence on how the chemical will react once it comes in contact with human skin tissue.
The scientists make sure the animals are not in very much pain, the scientists make sure they use proper safe tools when doing the tests on the animals. Scientists are very respectful of test animals. They make sure that the animals are treated well and do not suffer at any point in an experiment. The scientists do all they can for the animals when it comes to actually testing on them. If they think it will be uncomfortable for the animals they give them pain killers to relieve the stress and the pain if pain is even involved. The scientists don’t do the tests with intentions on hurting the animals they do it in hope to save lives of many people or make life easier on someone’s life.