Arguments Against Animal Testing

Animals should not be tested for barbering products because testing is cruel treatment to animals. Michele McKay states that “Animals endure chemicals being dripped into their eyes, injected into their bodies, forced up their nostrils or forced down their throats” (1). According to the article chemicals are put in there eyes which can cause them to become blind, injections can have dangerous side effects and the force feeding makes animals eat or digest things they usually would never eat. Animals go through it all in laboratories its like an animal jail but not only are they locked and poorly fed but even tortured to the point of death. The People of Ethical treatment for animals state that “The animals’ suffering begins even before they reach the vivisectors’ hands when they are ripped from their families and forced to live in bleak conditions” (1). These cruel vivisectors take animals away from their families to torture them as if losing a …show more content…
According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine animals such as rats have been used abundantly but they absorb things like iron differently from humans and give no real usable information (1). Many animals and rodents have been tested on for for products to help humans, thinking the results would be the same for animals as well as people but many have been proved wrong. Much of the testing has actually been proven useless, as the results do not prove to be accurate. The People of Ethical treatment for animals state that “The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans” (1). More than 90 percent of the drugs that get approved in laboratories fail in people. This shows how all the efforts of time,money and cruelty to test animal has no true effectiveness, and its time for a change. To sum up, testing on animals has no real use but to hurt innocent