Thousands and Thousands of ingredients have already been tested and proven safe to use in cosmetics. However, companies are still popping the eyes out of bunnies and injecting chemicals in them to test the newest ingredient. These bunnies are not dead, they are very much alive and the companies are more concerned about their bottom line then what they are doing to these animals. According to The Law Dictionary animal cruelty is defined as the infliction of physical pain, suffering, or death upon an animal, when not necessary for purposes of training or discipline [thelawdictionary.org]. Yet everyday cosmetic companies are inflicting physical pain on innocent animals and getting away with it. Cosmetic testing on animals should be considered animal cruelty, and individuals that participate need to realize they are a part of the problem.
These tests are not being done to help a five year old see again, or to help find a cure for cancer, these test are being done to find a brighter color of lipstick. Cosmetics are defined as articles intended to be applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying, or altering the body’s structure or functions [humanesociety.org]. In other words day after day animals are suffering and being tortured just to make humans look a little prettier or smell a little better. Many people don’t know what is involved when they read that shampoo bottle and it says this product has been tested on animals for safety. However, if more people knew that they force a tube down a rat’s throat then shove massive amounts of the test substance down the tube until the rat dies, less of those products would be purchased. Another horrible test that is performed is strapping rabbits down to a table and dropping ch...
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...o this by purchasing cosmetics that are not tested on animals. There are several great sites that are on the internet that provide lists of cosmetics that haven’t been tested on animals one is www.leapingbunny.org.
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https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-animal-testing
SUMMARIZE: The article grants information on new models in cosmetics to take the place of animal experimentation. It goes on to talk about how the European Union has now banned using animal-based test for cosmetic reasoning. Pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies have been using computer-like tools to assess the toxicity it has for years. The author incorporates information on cosmetics and the outlook on further research. ‘According to experts, combination of laboratory-based with virtual work will be the future of testing and is progressing faster than they expected.” (87 words)
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.
The Web. 5 February 2016. Driscoll and Finley’s article, while including a historical view on animal experimentation, mentions information regarding the topics of product testing and the use of experiments simply for research. The use of animals to test cosmetics is introduced in their article.
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
Incidentally cosmetics companies kill millions of animals every year to test their products. Some of these companies state they test on animals to establish the safety of their products and ingredients for consumers. The Food and Drug Admin...
Throughout history, beginning as early as 500 BC, animals have been used to test products that will later be utilized by humans (“Animal Testing” 4), what isn’t publicly discussed is the way it will leave the animals after the process is done. Many innocent rabbits, monkeys, mice, and even popular pets such as dogs are harmed during the testing application of cosmetics, medicine, perfumes, and many other consumer products (Donaldson 2). Nevertheless, there are many people whom support the scandal because "it is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective” for human benefit (Drayson). The overall question here is should it even be an authorized form of experimentation in the United States, or anywhere else? The fact of the matter is that there are alternatives to remove animals out of the equation for good (“Alternatives” 1). They are cheaper, and less invasive than the maltreatment of the 26 million innocent animals that are subjected to the heartlessness of testing each year (“Animal Testing” 4). All in all, due to the harsh effects of animal testing, it should be treated as animal cruelty in today’s society.
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.
Animal testing is cruel and unnecessary especially for cosmetic use. There is over a thousand ingredients that have been mark as safe for humans so there is no reason for animal testing. There are many alternatives for animal testing that are cheaper and give valid results, there are places like Europe that have ban animal testing and doesn’t not buy cosmetics from other places if they have been tested on animals. Since is not legally required to test cosmetics on animals, cosmetics companies have a choice to choose, but usually choose to experiment on animals. Many animals have dies or are seriously injured for the cause of animal testing and some animals that have been born in the labs haven’t even seen daylight in their life. There has been many reports of animal cruelty in these lab and some have been shut down for that reason. If there is many animals in this world that are being extinct, why speed up the process with other species by using them as experiments and killing
Products tested on animals can be potentially unreliable due to the differences of structure between humans and animals. Consequently, chemicals tested on a rabbit or other species may have different effects when applied to a human. Since factors such as the stress animals suffer in the lab affect their blood pressure and muscular activity (Humane Society International), results become erratic. The variation of results on animals can cause the release of dangerous chemicals to the market. Furthermore, without concrete and constant factors, cosmetic companies will be constantly haunted by the consumer’s negative remarks on the efficiency of the product. Therefore, on the long run animal testing only creates research limitations, but also hurts the companies’ reputation and the consumer’s health. More importantly, the lives sacrificed to create such products would be for nothing else than to depict humans as merciless
Simple household items such as lotions, shampoos and cosmetics aren’t very expensive and are within reach of the public, yet the public is not knowledgeable of the fact that the products that they use everyday are put through a series of tests which involve the use of harmless animals. Several large commercial companies do not make products for animals; they decide that using these harmless creatures for the testing of their products, could be harmful to animals, still go forward with these types of procedures on an everyday basis. Although these animals are unable to defend themselves or show signs of any form of consent for the near death procedures, these companies find this as a cheap solution for testing their products before placing them on the market. There are many other alternatives to testing animals, such as embryonic stem cell research. Animal experimentation is wrong and it can be avoided, but companies which are greedy for money choose not to.
Have you ever put on your shampoo and never even thought twice about being harmed from it. Have you ever took medicine and didn’t think about being harmed severely by the medicine. Little do you know that the medicine has been tested on Animals. Animal testing is a huge necessity to medicinal treatment and cosmetic products. Without animal testing human treatment would not be as advanced as it is today, and cosmetic products would have a chance of being harmful. Animal testing should not stop and continue.
The fact that animals are still used when animal experimentation is avoidable and not necessary makes animal testing unethical. According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (2013), over one hundred million animals suffer and sometimes die from experiments to test chemicals, drugs, foods, and cosmetics (para 3). Although it is good that the companies are concerned that their products do not harm consumers, the law does not require most of these tests animals endure. Furthermore, these tests do not have accurate results, so the animals may suffer, but the product is still sold to the people. While products that burn bunnies’ eyes away are being marketed to consumers, government agencies are using taxpayers’ hard-earned money to fund these horrible, pointless experiments.
Did you know that many of your cosmetic or household items such as laundry detergent and deodorant, has been experimented on animals? Animals are tested on to see how safe and effective cosmetic or medical products are. Using animals to test products has been a heated topic now for decades. Although humans often benefit from successful animal research, the extensive pain and suffering these animals endure for experiments that frequently conclude in misleading results, is not worth the benefit. Therefore, animals should not be used in testing the safety of products.
Cosmetic animal testing has been a controversial topic for decades but has recently gained more attention from the media due to oppositional organizations such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Those in favor of animal experimentation make the argument that they are taking animals’ lives to save humans’, but is it really necessary to subject animals to torturous conditions or painful experiments in the name of science? Animal experimentation needs to be abolished because it is unethical and selfish to destroy an animal 's life.
It is now required by law that cosmetics are tested for safety before being made available to the public. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in charge of overseeing drug and cosmetic testing today. Animal testing was the most widespread form of cosmetic testing considered proven, but the technology that is now available may replace the need for animal test...