When choosing your cosmetics, do you even stop to see what kind of makeup you are using? You could be supporting animal cruelty without knowing it. Animal testing is among the most disturbing experiments ever done. Today many cosmetics, such as mascara, are being tested on animals. Defenseless and helpless animals are being tested on for various experiments over the world. Most of the experiments performed in the laboratories are so inhumane you could never imagine one human doing it to another. As an animal rights activist, I strongly believe that animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, unnecessary, and delivers inaccurate results.
Animal testing should not be performed because it is inaccurate. Ray Creek, a board -certified doctor, explains why the use of animals slows down medical research. He says that animal experiments provide misleading data. At best, experiments tell us about how animals experience disease, but hardly tell us something of value that can be applied to humans. What good is it for us using animals to test medicines if it is not even useful? Ray Creek also said that the General Accounting Office several years ago concluded that animal tests do not accurately predict how dangerous a drug will be in humans. In other words, drug tests on animals do not protect humans from harmful medications. It is hard to continue to use this procedure, especially where it does no good, and …show more content…
For instance, at the Lovelace Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, experimenters forced sixty-four beagles to inhale radioactive Strontium 90 as part of a larger “Fission Product Inhalation Program” which began in 1961 and has been paid for by the US Atomic Energy Commission. In this experiment, twenty-five of the dogs eventually died. One of the deaths occurred during an epileptic seizure; another from a brain hemorrhage. Other dogs, before death, became feverish and anemic, lost their appetites, and had
Animal testing should not be performed because it is inaccurate. Ray Creek, a board -certified doctor, explains why the use of animals slows down medical research. He says that animal experiments provide misleading data. At best, experiments tell us about how animals experience disease, but hardly tell us something of value that can be applied to humans. What good is it for us using animals to test medicines if it is not even useful? Ray Creek also said that the General Accounting Office several years ago concluded that animal tests do not accurately predict how dangerous a drug will be in humans. In other words, drug tests on animals do not protect humans from harmful medications. It is hard to continue to use this procedure, especially where it does no good, and …show more content…
For instance, at the Lovelace Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, experimenters forced sixty-four beagles to inhale radioactive Strontium 90 as part of a larger “Fission Product Inhalation Program” which began in 1961 and has been paid for by the US Atomic Energy Commission. In this experiment, twenty-five of the dogs eventually died. One of the deaths occurred during an epileptic seizure; another from a brain hemorrhage. Other dogs, before death, became feverish and anemic, lost their appetites, and had