Testing cosmetics on animals

Thousands of cases of animal abuse are filed each year, but less than a quarter of them lead to convictions (Friedman 34). Many of these cases filed are due to the use of animals in entertainment. Today, places like zoos, circuses, bull fights, horse races, and others use animals as amusement. These entertainment industries thrive on well trained and compliant animals, which is difficult to achieve. Trainers then use punishment and cruelty to train and care for those animals. Entertainment…

use of animals in experiments to test the quality and effects of different drugs and treatments. This is an understandably controversial topic as the ethical treatment of these animals is often questioned. Many believe that animal testing should be prohibited, but would this really be to the benefit of scientific advancement? Animal testing is necessary for scientific development and this essay aims to support this statement by providing relevant evidence to outweigh the opinions that animal…

For so long, animals have been viewed as resources of humans. Animals have been killed for consumption since the Homo erectus some 1.8 million years ago. Hundreds and thousands of years later, as early as 300 B.C.E, animals were already used for experiments to study bodily functions. Animals were also treated as entertainment and hunting as a sport started as early as 4000 B.C.E. It was in 1828 that the first anti-cruelty law was passed. In the Philippines, it was only in 1998 that Republic Act…

Animal testing has become one of a number of controversial issues because of the effects that it has on animals. Supporters of animal testing justify these effects because they believe that animal testing is the only way to find new cures for diseases. Research that has been done on this matter has proven it to be an ineffective way of finding cures. Furthermore, the reason why animal testing should not continue is because it leads to animals having psychological problems, dwindling of the…

A. Animals are harmed during testing Animals shouldn’t be harmed during testing. Animals have feelings just like humans and they can also experience pain Animals are forced to suffer during experiments Most test animals are killed after an experiment. Some experiments cause so much harm and suffering for animals so that killing would be more merciful for the animals than continuing the experiment. In 2010, a research showed that 97,123 test animals were likely to experience pain and…

In the United States, we have astronauts walking on the moon and scientists cloning animals. However, there are still people in this country unable to read. This illiteracy poses a huge problem for the individuals as well as for society in general. “Yet, this very basic of skills taught at an early age, proves to be difficult for so many students” (National Assessment of Education Progress, 2015). Blame has been placed in many directions including teachers, parents, students, administrators…

the most dangerous pet parasites is lungworm. As you can guess, this parasite invades the lungs in cats and dogs and might cause severe health issues. Dogs and cats can get infected with lungworms when they drink contaminated water or eat infected animals such as birds, snails or slugs. Once the dog ingests the infected larva, it travels to the lungs via the bloodstream. When it matures, it lays eggs in the lungs or airways which cause obstruction and shortness of breath. Pneumonia, emphysema,…

Animals gets abused in the laboratory tests every day, and a lot of them dies because of the test subject. Nowadays, animal testing and experiments have become a common thing in every country. However, if there is nothing to stop the harmful experiments on the animals’, the extinction of many animals will be a sure thing. Scientists in the laboratory cannot do experiments on every animal, because there are some animals does not fit for the tests. So this is the main reason why some kind of…

Cloning endangered species to save them is a horrible idea, doing this will bring back species that could go through more pain, or be very bad for our health, to contradict, all animals deserve a chance to survive without interference by the more intelligent species’. There are pros and cons to this controversial issue. Many people want to see dinosaurs again, but do not realize how dangerous they can be. But sometimes humans are stupid enough to wipe out an entire species in a matter of decade;…

exploitation of animals. Vegans believe that it is unethical to consume animal body parts or use them for clothing or any other household items. The torture and killing of animals for any reason, be it for research purposes, entertainment, or for its products is against veganism. As such, vegans feel guilt when eating animal products or meat coming from animals that have been killed or tortured. They believe that it is ethically wrong for people to put their welfare or the desire for animal…