Why should animals be tested on for cosmetic supplies they not only won't use but can die from. 50,000 to 100,000 million animals are used yearly for animal testing. About 58,000 different procedures are used when testing animal subjects. Animals are used for testing many different product such as: haircare(like dye and shampoo), lipstick, blush, eyeine, masacara, eyeshadow, moiserizer, lotion, and others. Millions animals die from cosmetic testing. Other animals are left with infections, diseases, and open sores. Cosmetic animal testing is being stopped slowely and is banned in the U.K. I believe that cosmetic animal testing should be stopped due to the reasons that they are mistreated and go through cruel experimentations, die, and effect in animals and humas are not always the same.
Animals are a big part of our lives, so why treat them so poorly well they are testing experiments? Animals such as rabbits go through a test known as the draize test. What is this you ask, well this is a test where some one drops a liquid to be tested in a rabbits eyes. It is to test irratablility. Most commonly pesticides are tested which completely destroy the rabbits eye or ulceration, hmoerageing, and other problems. ne of the largest cases of animal cruelty in animal research is to beagles. These dogs are often found undernerished or in very por condition. I found even where there is a case of lab researches kicking the poor dogs around. Animals shouldn't be treated like this. Why make them go through such cruel experimenation if we are not willing to do the same.
Millions of animals die annually the cause being cosmetic research. In the LD50 test animals will be fed 50% their own body weight in a porduct this is to find the odsage in which will be lethal. The experiment purposely kills off the animal being used which is most commonly cats and dogs. Other experomentations like the LD50 are used to find out what will kill the animal. Animals often die from diseases or infections that they got as a direct result of an experiment. Animals don't deserve to die this way. Or eve die at all for the sake of cosemtics. I don't believe the should mainly cause it is cruel and inhuman.
Effects on animals subject are not always the same as they are on humans. Irritacy found in a rabbits eyes and human eyes is different. Plus some animals are found to be alergic to some of the chemicals found in cosmetic testing. Yet the animal will be used anyways. Chemical bases found in materials will be safe to a human but not to some of the animals. So some of the animals of the animals will die for something that was safe anyways. How can it be fair to test animals for something that is going to kill them and not us. The reason it hasn't became illegal is because we are not willing to be tested on either. But if we don't wanna be tested on than why should they.
Arguements against stopping animal cosmetic research state that animals are less important than human. That by using animals and not human we are saving from having to pay medical cost like we would if using human subject. They also believe that if we use animals in medical research why is it any different in cosmetic research. That animals may save lives in cosmetic research and testing to. They think that it is easier to test something on an animal instead of testing it on human. This is because human can sue companies and human need to be protected from getting the infection or disease that come from cosmetic testing. That and you can easily use animals where as it is hard to find human that will do these test.
In conclusion animals should not be used in cosmetic research for all the reason I have stated. Animals should have the same right as us. Plus if we are not willing to test products for ourselves why make animals test them? I respect the U.K. for banning cosmetic testing on animals. I think the U.S. should follow in ther footsteps. By all means I am not saying anything about medical testing i have no problems with it. But Cosmeti testing should stop.
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