Persuasive Essay On Animals

There has always been a cruelty free presence in the product industry, but it appears that there are more companies transitioning from non-cruelty free to cruelty free. The change has taken a few years to finally come into full effect. While there are companies doing the transition to become animal friendly, there are just as many companies that refuse to cooperate and change their production. Not only does the product industry use animals to test human products on but the scientific community does so as well. Animals are used in order to understand the human body but there are so many things that are different about animals that it is futile to use them in order to understand ourselves. This logic, of understanding animals in order to understand

The exact definition of a rabbit is “a small animal that usually lives in holes in the ground and has long ears, soft fur, and back legs that are longer than its front legs” (Merriam-Webster). Within this definition there are no similarities to humans, unless humans have suddenly become mammals with fur and long ears, there is no reason that any products should be tested on these creatures at all. Rabbits are more sensitive to toxins and other harmful products than humans, so they cannot truly tell if humans will react badly to products or not. The cosmetic industry found a “discrepancy that is thought to be related to a higher susceptibility of the rabbit to skin reactions, possibly due to differences in skin structure between humans and rabbits”(Macfarlane 189). The skin of rabbits cannot correctly identify if a product is or is not harmful for human skin; only directly testing the product on humans will identify if there are issues with the product or not. This situation also has a problem, because while there are companies, like LUSH cosmetics, that are able to function without test animals many companies still cannot find the human volunteers needed to test their products. There are companies like Maybelline and L’Oréal that are not going to stop testing on animals because their business with countries other than the United States, and

This is a large span of time for testing to be occurring on animals, but in the beginning it was necessary for scientific research. Animal testing was important to discover certain things, but now in the technological era that humans exist in it is an old and outdated technique that needs to be discarded. There are new methods of research that have been discovered methods that replace animals as test subjects and save animal lives. The devastation to animals due to this testing is, “millions of animals would be used in the testing of 30,000 chemicals” (Burden 2). New technology has presented itself for scientists to use, but yet “millions of animals” continue to be used for testing because these scientists refuse to use the technology that has been created. Animals are not only being killed but they are being subjected to painful tests that the best outcome after the tests are completed is death. The pain they have to endure is described as, “toxicity tests are associated with high levels of suffering (for example, in acute toxicity tests where death is the main endpoint)” (2). Animals are being exposed to extremely painful tests and death is the only relief from the pain. This testing has been closely examined in Europe and has been stopped; now there are laws that are saving the lives of animals. While these laws are saving animal lives that was not the original intention from the lawmakers. Mainly the