Introduction
It started ever since I was fifth grade. My love for animals grew. Once I entered highschool, my love for makeup grew as well. Ever from the start I knew that a massive amount of cosmetic brands would use animals as test subjects. It was not until now, ever since I looked into the topic that I found out how depressing and how infuriating it is that people would do this to animals to make sure that that the product is safe for us, as humans, to apply and wear. This article is here to seek the following question: How is animal testing impacting the animals along with society.
This topic is important because more than 100 million animals die each year due to animal testing (Peta 2). This includes the animals that are considered to …show more content…
In the interview I conducted with Anne Berlin, a previous Animal tester who now has paired up with PETA to put a stop to it, she informed me on how “There were vaccines, antibiotics and even some cancer treatments that were found while testing on animals.” She explained how there was a scientist with the name of Alexander Fleming who discovered Penicillin for testing on an animal that initially failed the first time. To think that there possibly would not be antibiotics or vaccine in this world today; and there are here now because of animal testing is ironic. Animal testing, like to what Anne said, also helped to find cures to some types of …show more content…
The reality of it, there are more negative than positive. “ Animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subject” (ProCon.Org2). There are some animals, like the chimpanzee that has a gene makeup that is 99% identical to humans therefore if anything they should be the ones that are getting tested. But because using just monkeys could get more expensive than it already is, they continue to use less expensive animals such as rats or mice. Rats, mice, and rabbits are able to reproduce at a more rapid rate because their gestation period, the amount of time it takes a fetus to fully develop, is shorter than monkeys or other larger
It started ever since I was fifth grade. My love for animals grew. Once I entered highschool, my love for makeup grew as well. Ever from the start I knew that a massive amount of cosmetic brands would use animals as test subjects. It was not until now, ever since I looked into the topic that I found out how depressing and how infuriating it is that people would do this to animals to make sure that that the product is safe for us, as humans, to apply and wear. This article is here to seek the following question: How is animal testing impacting the animals along with society.
This topic is important because more than 100 million animals die each year due to animal testing (Peta 2). This includes the animals that are considered to …show more content…
In the interview I conducted with Anne Berlin, a previous Animal tester who now has paired up with PETA to put a stop to it, she informed me on how “There were vaccines, antibiotics and even some cancer treatments that were found while testing on animals.” She explained how there was a scientist with the name of Alexander Fleming who discovered Penicillin for testing on an animal that initially failed the first time. To think that there possibly would not be antibiotics or vaccine in this world today; and there are here now because of animal testing is ironic. Animal testing, like to what Anne said, also helped to find cures to some types of …show more content…
The reality of it, there are more negative than positive. “ Animals are very different from human beings and therefore make poor test subject” (ProCon.Org2). There are some animals, like the chimpanzee that has a gene makeup that is 99% identical to humans therefore if anything they should be the ones that are getting tested. But because using just monkeys could get more expensive than it already is, they continue to use less expensive animals such as rats or mice. Rats, mice, and rabbits are able to reproduce at a more rapid rate because their gestation period, the amount of time it takes a fetus to fully develop, is shorter than monkeys or other larger