Should Animal Testing Be Allowed In The United States?

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.

Think about the cosmetic and pharmaceutical products used in everyday life. Cosmetic products such as make-ups, soaps, deodorants, and shampoos are tested on animals. Medical products such as birth control and Visine are tested on animals as well. The FDA requires testing for medical products but cosmetic products are not required to. While it has made some advancements medically, scientists should seek out different ways to test products meant for human use; so we look at the ineffectiveness of animal testing, difference in human and animal biology, and animal fatalities.

“We know that animals can experience pain and distress in experiments and that this can be severe. The way that animals are bred, transported, housed and handled may also cause suffering.”(RSPCA) Animal testing is an issue that has existed since the early 1900s. Some countries have passed laws to ban the use of animals in cosmetic testing, but the United States has not. This is important because over 100 million animals are tested on each year across the world. “Europe, the world’s largest cosmetic market, Israel and India have already banned animal testing for cosmetics, and the sale or import of newly animal-tested beauty products.”(dosomething.org) Animal testing needs to be banned from the United States.

Some people argue against testing because it kills animals. Scientists hold them captive, experiment on them and then they kill them. However, scientists have had a lot of success in finding drugs that work on humans. The medications they have found have saved millions of lives, and we now have many vaccines to prevent people from getting sick and possibly dying. Animal testing should be allowed to continue because it is very beneficial to humans and has saved many lives.

Everyone has probably worn or has owned something animal tested, whether they’ve known it or not. Animal testing has been around since the early ADs but was most commonly known for starting about 150 years ago with the rise of physiology as a science. As “Companies That Still Use Animal Testing” says, these testings have gone down a lot with new developments for these kind of testing but there are still many major companies such as L’oreal, Clorox, Covergirl, MAC, Pantene, Dove, Avon and hundreds of other companies you’ve probably used. These companies torture these animals and even kill them with their products just so there is yet another

“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

Successful brands such as Jeffree Star cosmetics are strictly animal testing free and extremely vegan which results his brand to be the most successful in the industry. There are many makeup brands that do support animal testing. Animal testing should not be allowed because many animals are taken advantage of.

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

More than 115 million animals are used each year for testing (Akhtar). The act of testing on live animals for the purpose of scientific research is called vivisection. According to a nationwide survey of biology educators commissioned by NAVS in 2014, the use of animals as dissection specimens in biology classrooms remains a prevalent practice in the United States, with 84% of pre-college biology educators reporting the use of dissection as a teaching tool. The use of vivisection is carried out in middle schools, high schools, and universities. Animals are also used in testing for cosmetics, tox screenings, and xenotransplantation, a process of transplanting organs or tissues between different species . Many creatures around the world are forced into a life in cage where they obliged to endure painful tests. Along with the pain caused by scientists, many of the drugs that prove to be successful in animals aren’t in humans. Aside from all, animals do have the right to not be harmed although the Animal Welfare Act doesn’t provide much protection. Our country’s law refuses to find it necessary to use alternative methods which are also obtainable. Animal testing should be outlawed due to animal rights, ethical issues, alternative ways and its unreliability.

The European Union is planning to ban animal testing for cosmetics to be by 2009. In the United States, Revlon and Avon were two of the first large companies to halt all cosmetics testing on animals. Some, on the other hand, have debated that the main ingredients in cosmetics have previously been tested on animals. Therefore, their safety is well established, which means that it's 'easier' for companies to find alternatives to test product formulations because most active ingredients have already been approved. As time, technology and technology progress, it is likely that cosmetic animal testing will either decrease or end all

Animal testing is widely used today for a variety of different reasons ranging from testing new medical treatments for serious diseases to testing new cosmetics. Due to the widespread nature of animal testing, there are those who argue that animal testing is morally wrong and that it causes unnecessary suffering in animals. However, there are some that believe animal testing’s ability to reduce human suffering makes it morally right, good, and useful. Throughout this paper, I will argue that testing on animals should be illegal because animals have the ability to suffer just as humans do and animal testing causes animal suffering.

Animal testing has been a cruel form to help humanity by fulfilling desires that are not needed for one’s survival. Imperative processes have been executed for minor reasons such as creating eyeshadows, lipsticks, and many other cosmetic objects. However, these minor reasons are simply conducted in order to fulfill a human’s satisfaction, which is quite unnecessary. There are several methods of testing on animals, however, two major types include Acute Toxicity tests and Eye and Skin-Irritation tests. Acute Toxicity tests are being used to identify the intensive effects of any kind of product, whether it’s a little bottle of eyeliner, or a small palette of eyeshadow. According to PETA,(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) examiners perform this process by forced-activity such as inhalation, burning the skin, paralyzing

Before releasing a drug, many studies and tests must be done to legalize it. One question that many people have is; how do you know if this drug will work? Well we test these drugs on animals, such as monkeys which have similar tissue to humans. This is one example of animal cruelty. Some other questions people ask are; what is our system for testing these drugs, and how could we change it?

Waking up everyday, waiting to feel the sharp, icy sting of a needle, while watching friends die hour by hour is a horrible, depressing way of life. Animals feel such a thing while subjected to tests in cosmetic labs all around the world. Therefore, animal testing should be banned in cosmetics because animals are poked and prodded inhumanly in laboratories, new scientific advances like growing human skin are available, and society wants safer ways to test maquillage products out.

Most household families treat their pets as a family member. These family pets are showered with love, care, have a good home, and plenty of food to eat. But not all animals are as lucky as many household pets. Millions of animals are killed, poisoned, and abused from animal testing each year in the Unites States. Just last year the European Union banned the sale of any cosmetic ingredients that have been tested on animals. Also joining the fight against animal testing in cosmetics is Israel and India. These countries have banned all testing on animals for cosmetic purposes. China, not far behind, has just approved their first non-animal test for cosmetics. Many countries are making strides in eliminating animal testing for