“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Beauty comes with a price, and the price is the inhumane and brutal treatment animals undergo, for the sake of people to look and feel their best. Envision your pet dog or cat, locked up in a cage with shaved off skin and injected eyes, not knowing what to do or how to escape, living the rest of your life in a laboratory, feeling miserable. What would be the reason to all of this? Cosmetic animal testing, and the vicious treatment animals fall victim to. Being someone who has huge interest in cosmetics and applies it on a daily basis, one would want to know how makeup is created, and the process it goes through to reach one’s dresser. Throughout the process, cosmetic animal testing is a main aspect of it, which is appalling. Why should cosmetic testing be banned? It should be banned because animals go through a terrible procedure when undergoing this process, as it is inhumane , the drugs that get injected in the animals are harmful in many ways , cosmetic testing on animals in the United States is very costly and there are alternatives for cosmetic testing on animals, as it is no longer necessary. The current methods for cosmetic testing on animals should be banned.
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“Imagine spending your entire life as a hospital patient or prisoner, and this will only begin to approximate the life of an animal in a laboratory” (Bentham, 2015, para.1). Cosmetic testing on
Purpose: To inform the audience about animal testing I. Introduction A. Attention getting device: Approximately 26 million animals are used every year in US laboratories for cosmetic and biomedical research. B. Thesis: I would like to inform you about how animal testing is conducted. C. Credibility: I have read and studied the articles about animal testing. D. Preview: I am going to share with you purposes of animal testing, how animals are used in laboratory tests, and the effectiveness of animal testing.
Cosmetic testing on animals is unnecessary when it comes to consumer wants. Defenseless animals should not have to suffer through useless experimentations of cosmetics. Millions of animals have painful deaths every year, because people are allowing this to happen. Since these experiments are an ancient way of testing, the animals’ deaths are in vain. They’re not the most accurate results, and there are other ways to avoid this without the cost of beauty.
Modern-Day Animal Experimentation: A Necessity, or a Brutality? Animal experimentation is the act of testing products with non-human animal subjects intended for human use such as shampoo, deodorant, or cigarettes, before the product is mass produced and shipped out for human consumption. Research such as this will usually take place in pharmaceutical companies, medical schools, or universities. Not only is experimentation on animals unethical, it is completely unnecessary and out-dated. The term “animal experimentation” is very broad, and can mean one of a few things; however, drug/cosmetics testing is by far the most dangerous and controversial of all the subjects put together.
Millions of animals are abused and left to die a long exhausting death each year. Many people don’t know that the cosmetic products they own are tested to see if the products are safe for humans. In the process of the testing animals are tested using harmful chemicals that often burn the animal’s skins and the ruthless workers leaving them to die a long painful death. Animal testing is inhumane and should be banned. Animal testing kills and tortures millions of animals each year.
Henceforth, as animal testing increased, so did the controversy surrounding it (“Animal testing,” n.d.). Moreover, with the help of animal testing, various treatments and medicines are developed for unconventional diseases. Although animal testing may seem ruthless, animals are used for experimental research that contributes to science if there are no other possible substitutes. Animal testing is a debatable topic that still continues to be one until this time. Animal experimentation should persist because it saves human’s life from diseases, ensures cosmetics’ safety, and improves medical
We need to stop makeup, cleaning products, medicine and all other chemical based products being tested on animals not only because it is horrendously cruel but there is also a huge amount of money that is wasted in the process of testing. According to most statistics, human results only agree 5-25 percent of the time which means that the process of animal testing is practically pointless as the results hardly ever benefit our knowledge of how to improve the products
Primary Knowledge Claim: Seeing that there is a big number of people accepting that it is acceptable to test on animals I think: I think it is ethically wrong to have animals being experimented for the betterment. 25 million animals are experimented on for biomedical researches, science education (dissecting heart, where animals are dead) and cosmetics (for mascaras and liquid liners), every year in the US. Rabbits are being tested on for shampoos and other products, which causes an irritation and are forced to have their eyelids helped open by clips. They can’t blink for multiple days until the test is over. 50% of the animals are killed by the Lethal dose test, which in this test you are able to find out what chemical is involved in the product.
Every year cosmetic companies in the United states kill millions of animals while testing their products. (Point: the fight for animal rights ) According to the British Union for abolition of vivisection, common uses of laboratory animals include testing for toxicity, brain research, dental research, and surgical experiments ( Cruel Beauty). Animals have rights that we are obligated to acknowledge. They have the right to autonomy and, by extension, the rights to freedom from exploitation and freedom from suffering.
Makeup companies should not be granted permission to test on animals. Cosmetic companies continue to test makeup on many different animals all over the world. Although cosmetic testing is banned in a few countries, most major countries continue to test products on animals. There are much more beneficial ways to ensure that makeup products are safe to use. Makeup companies waste time and money into animal testing.
With cheaper and more effective methods, animal testing should be vanished – but it is still used every day. This is because many people are in the dark on this issue. This means advertisements, like the rabbit wearing makeup, are often used to shed light on the subject. A picture is worth a thousand words, and this one in particular speaks volumes. This image and others like it have the ability to put a stop to animal testing by simply catching people’s eye; it plants the seed in peoples brains for them to research the topic and understand the severity of this
There are hundreds of brands that test on animals for cosmetics, and not one of them is humane. Cosmetic animal testing has been a controversial issue for years. The first documented test on an animal was done in the mid 1850s by Charles Darwin. Soon in 1922, animal testing allowed insulin to be isolated from dogs (Murnaghan). In 1938, the United States passed the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic act, after an incident with a woman’s mascara led her to become blind.
This proves how immoral it is to test on animals especially since the law does not require the cosmetics to be tested. The most plausible answer for why the animals are being tested on is a business wants to make money and if the business cosmetic is unsafe and harms one human then no one is going to want to buy another cosmetic from that business. This could leave a business with no
There are other ways to go. Some countries have even prohibited makeup animal testing. I think this is a huge step and only taking us the next step which is closer to banning animal
When putting on your lipstick, do you know what brand your lipstick is? If you are not aware, you might indirectly support animal testing without realizing it. Animal testing is a scientific experiment performed on animals to study the effects of drugs, cosmetic products and other chemical products on humans. In other words, it is used to evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs. About 1.4 million animals die each year because of animal testing.
Animal testing is a phrase that most people have heard but are perhaps still unsure of exactly what it involve. Whether it is called animal testing, experimentation or research, it should be defined as all testing methods on animals including, medical exploration, cosmetics, toxicology trialing, and psychological examination involving animal subjects. It is used to assess the safety and effectiveness of medications and beauty products as well as understanding how the human physiology works. While supporters believe it is necessary practice, those against animal testing believe that it involves torture and suffering to animals. Medical research is the hardest case of proposition in the debate whether animal testing should be banned or not, since it has previously yielded substantial benefits for humanity.