Animal Testing Every day animals are tortured just for testing cosmetics.Over 50 million animals have had an animal testing related death.Animal testing should be considered animal cruelty and should not be allowed. Animal testing is wrong because animals can be gravely injured, testing on animals is not always a good way to predict if a product is safe, and there are other better testing techniques. Many people think that animal testing is not an issue because they are just animals, but animals have feelings too.They don’t deserve to be tortured for human cosmetics.
Firstly, one-way animals are abused is in cosmetic testing.The cosmetic industry uses animals to determine their safety of the products. As a result, of the tests performed, “millions of animals” suffer painful deaths. One kind of test used on animals is called the irritancy test where a liquid or powdered substance is dropped into the eyes of a group of rabbits. Because of this, the rabbits eyes become swollen irritated and may even bleed. “While the rabbits are alive and conscious, at least, fifty percent of the animals that endure these tests die usually within 2-3 weeks” (Animal Liberation Front). …show more content…
No one likes to be abused so just because an animal isn’t a human doesn’t give people a right to abuse them. As said in an article, “Humans do not have a right to use animals” (Lin). Think about if the shoe was on the other foot. If animals were testing and abusing humans, humans would try and revolt. Animals don’t have that option. Also, animals can die because of the testing that’s brought upon them. Being tested and dying from it is completely wrong. As said in an article, “I find it appalling that five baboons died under the “care” of researchers while at the center” (Hudson). All the killing and torture is pointless because they are not human therefore the test result are
Firstly, one-way animals are abused is in cosmetic testing.The cosmetic industry uses animals to determine their safety of the products. As a result, of the tests performed, “millions of animals” suffer painful deaths. One kind of test used on animals is called the irritancy test where a liquid or powdered substance is dropped into the eyes of a group of rabbits. Because of this, the rabbits eyes become swollen irritated and may even bleed. “While the rabbits are alive and conscious, at least, fifty percent of the animals that endure these tests die usually within 2-3 weeks” (Animal Liberation Front). …show more content…
No one likes to be abused so just because an animal isn’t a human doesn’t give people a right to abuse them. As said in an article, “Humans do not have a right to use animals” (Lin). Think about if the shoe was on the other foot. If animals were testing and abusing humans, humans would try and revolt. Animals don’t have that option. Also, animals can die because of the testing that’s brought upon them. Being tested and dying from it is completely wrong. As said in an article, “I find it appalling that five baboons died under the “care” of researchers while at the center” (Hudson). All the killing and torture is pointless because they are not human therefore the test result are