Animal Testing Pros

When using your cosmetic products on a daily basis, do you think of all the animals harmed and killed in the making? Cosmetics include products used by us every day, such as toothpaste, makeup, shampoo, soap, deodorant, etc. In the 1930s, the United States Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act compelled cosmetic companies to start testing the safety of their products on animals, beginning a long journey of violating animal rights. Since then, laws have changed, allowing companies to use alternatives that do not involve animals to test the safety of their products. Even though companies are not mandated to test on animals anymore, some still choose to do so for various reasons. Therefore, animal testing in the cosmetic industry is immoral because it is not mandatory and violates animals rights, and it has to end.

Animal testing is harsh and brutal treatment. These innocent animals are force fed, deprived of food and water, locked up for long periods of time, inflicted with burns, wounds and pain from the recovery process, and even killed. Cosmetic companies will often spray or apply products to the eyes of animals to make

The cosmetic industry continues to compose a large part of society for several centuries, dating all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. The $160 billion-a-year global industry encompasses products such as make-up, skin and hair care, fragrances, cosmetic surgery, health clubs, and diet pills. With the recent surge of both affordable and luxury products flooding the markets, “Americans [are] [spending more each year on beauty than they do on education,” allowing distributors, such as Sephora, to turn a large profit (The Economist). Nevertheless, many of these state-of-the-art products are subjects of animal testing. Animal testing for cosmetics products allows distributors to carry innovative products and high-demanded

When picking out your mascara or eyeliner, do you even stop to think what is in that product or what the process is to make it? You could be supporting animal testing and not even know it. According to PETA, it is estimated that each year 26 million animals in the United States are used for animal testing(2017). As many may believe that animal testing is the only way to find out new things or test products, it is not, there are new alternatives that scientists have found like in vitro methods, and studies with human volunteers that have been proven to work without harming these animals.

Imagine sitting is a cage, in a dark room. Squawks and howls fill the entire room. A light flicks on and a man in a white coat approaches and unlocks a cage. He picks up a young bunny and an older bunny and a middle aged bunny. His cold hands touch their soft white fur. He carries all three of them into a clean white room with only a table in the middle. He calms them down is a soothing voice, but there was something different about his voice. He voice was sickly sweet and sounded quite greedy. A sharp pang hits each of them as they are injected with the poison. Their response is immediate, flailing, running around and crying out with pain. With nothing to stop their pain, the animals are going to suffer until they die. Is this

” Today, more animals are being used in experiments than ever before: around 100 million in the United States alone” (3). Animal testing is now an international issue, and it is becoming a major story. Currently, animals are often used in medical testing, make-up testing, and other consumer product testing. Animals used in such product testing are often abused and suffer from serious side-effects. Animal testing can be painful for the animals, testing results are usually not even useable for humans, and there are other testing methods available. Consequently, animals should not be used for any make-up products or medical testing.

Imagine being born, only to live a life of torture. You are brought to a lab, and cruelly tested on against your will. Toxins poured into your eyes, painful injections to your skin, then left to die when you’re no longer useful. Although many do not realize it, people use products tested on animals in their everyday lives. For girls, many of your favorite makeup brands, such as Estee Lauder, Makeup Forever, and Maybelline take part in animal testing. Products such as toothpaste, cologne, deodorant, laundry detergent, razors, and even band-aids aren’t tested innocently, either. As a makeup enthusiast, I am passionate about how the products I use daily are tested. Today I will help you understand what animal testing is and how it started, how it’s currently affecting animals around the world, and what organizations are doing to help make a difference in the future. To begin, I will explain the history of animal testing. An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress, or lasting harm.(https://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/why-we-do-it/what-animal-testing) Animal experiments are not the same as taking your animal to the vet. Animals used in laboratories are harmed, not for their own good, and usually killed at the end of an experiment. Animal experiments include injecting or force feeding animals with potentially harmful substances, exposing animals to radiation,

A human body and an animal body are not the same. According to the HSI (Humane Society International), different species react differently to different chemicals and powders used in cosmetics and what an animal might experience or react to is not the same as a human. This proves that animal testing is unreliable and wasteful. Animal testing is also very expensive. The US National Institute of Health spends about $14 billion out of its $31 billion budget on animal testing and research proving to be very costly and inefficient for research or production in other areas.

Opponents towards animal testing discuss that because of the tests that people rely on for animal testing information include a range of imperfections, then why should we have animals constantly tortured and killed for invaluable information? A greater portion of the animals used during the testing process are either killed during the process or die once the experiments are over. If the animals do not die at either of these points during the process, they can then be used during more research ("Questions and Answers"). Ultimately, we have animals dying for inadequate research. We should no longer depend on animal experimentation that does not guarantee benefiting human health. While, on the other side of the argument, pro-animal testing individuals

irritation tests where chemicals are rubbed on shaved skin or dripped into the eyes without any pain

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.

Using animals for cosmetic testing is deadly. Statistics portray an alarming rate of the number of animals lost due to laboratories participating in the inhumanly experiments on animals. The United States leads all nations in animal research facilities.

One of the leading industries in the United States is the cosmetics business. When cosmetics started up people were applying all different types of product to their bodies. While using the products, people were starting to acquire serious injuries to their skin and hair. This forced make-up producers to figure out a way to test the products before it hit the market. In the 1940s, scientists started to use animals for testing purposes. In recent years, testing on animals has decreased because producers use safer ingredients in their products. Even though there are safe ingredients, people continue to experiment with new chemicals and dyes. To avoid major lawsuits, companies still experiment on animals to prove the product is safe. With all these new products, the Food and Drug

Millions of animals every year are being used in labs to test cosmetics. This problem has become a worldwide issue and the U.S. needs to make a change by prohibiting the use of animals in testing cosmetics for safe use.

For every ingredient put into a product an animal goes though testing for it pain relief is rarely provided and the animals used are always killed at the end of each test (Humane Society.Org). Some makeup brands that continue to test on animals are MAC, Dior, and Tom Ford just to name a few the list goes on (Companies That Test on Animals). It does not stop at makeup other everyday used things test on animals such as, hair products, skin care, and soap. People have to take a moment and think about how much an animal suffered just to make their cheeks blush. On top of the cruelty, up to 90% of animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the official statistics of animals tested (Do Something.Org). Exact numbers are not available because mice, rats, birds, and cold-blooded animals—who make up more than 99 percent of animals used in experiments—are not covered by even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act and therefore go uncounted (Peta.Org). Accounting for the real number of animals including those not covered by the Animal Welfare Act would cause those numbers to look outrageously high. There should be supervised labs to ensure that the animals are not getting treated worse than they already are. Supervised labs would secure the animals are being cared for properly and are as comfortable as they can be while they are being tested on. The lab tests have long term damage some animals to develop neurotic types of behavior such as incessantly spinning in