Persuasive Essay On Cosmetics Animal Testing

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Testing cosmetics on animals is a very controversial issue that has grown over the past years. I believe that cosmetic animal testing is wrong and should be banned because it is cruel, inaccurate, not very reliable, and has been proven to be unnecessary. Approximately 200,000 animals will suffer and die every year for cosmetics around the world. We as a whole have all decided that this is not necessary which is why we stopped making testing on animal cosmetics something that had to be done. Companies still continue to do it. Not only do you have the power to speak up for what you believe in, you can also start to vote with your dollar. Stop and look at your cosmetics to understand where you are voting. Animal testing is an inhuman and arrogant thing to do, if companies have to test the products on animals because of the chemicals in it, are you sure you still want to put that on your face or body. Most companies that do not test on animals use natural and real ingredients that you don’t have to think twice about. Stopping animal testing is an easy and immediate thing we can do. There is a list of over 100 ingredients that have been compiled together, and deemed to be safe. Companies just need an extra push in order to make this transition. Most people that want …show more content…

Animal experiments prolong the suffering of people waiting for effective cures by misleading experimenters and money, time, and resources that could have been used on human relevant research. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, “A research animal facility generates a significant amount of waste that must be removed and disposed of on a regular, frequent basis.” Cosmetic animal testing costs billions of dollars. With the state of our economy why would we want to continue to to waste this large amount of money on tests that are not very accurate in support of a cause that is not required to sustain

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