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. Science researches believe that products which have been tested on animals will make humans’ life better. However, the main concern on this issue is that animals are suffering from unnecessary pain. Animals are mostly exposed to radiation, forced to inhale poisonous gases and injected with harmful substances prior to the experiment. Thus, animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, the result is unreliable and…show more content… The practice of animal testing is unethical as for the procedure done to animals is distressing. In many cases, animals are often tortured and killed during the experimentation. Some of the animals which were not killed are left to survive in despair. Just like humans, the pain and fear that they feel can be unbearable. According to Bastach (2013), University of Wisconsin were financed to cut cat’s brain, drill their skull, wire their eyes with coils, making them deaf and let them die of hunger. This shows that animal experimentation is immoral. Other than that, the animals used in the experiment are kept in captivity as they live in laboratory cages. As stated by Baxamusa (2016), since animals are not living in their own natural environment, they are under a lot of stress. These animals are refrained from getting their basic needs such as shelter, food and water. Hence, these animals become more depressed as they try to adapt in such circumstances. Animals shouldn’t be taken advantage of as they have feelings and need to live just like