Pretty much everyone knows that medicine and cosmetics are tested on animals. But did you know that pet food, household products or tobacco are tested on animals too?
These are only examples of the many unexpected products that are tested on animals. Is it really necessary to test these products on animals?
No, and it is even harder to defend animal testing on these products than it is to defend animal testing of medicine.
Anyway, household products and tobacco are not necessary to survive (even if the tobacco companies would certainly be more than happy to give that picture that tobacco is good for health and will make you live longer), so it can’t be argued either that animal testing and research is absolutely necessary for the survival of certain persons.Furthermore, even if all new household products, pet food and tobacco brands should be tested on animals for some reason, do we really need new products?
Can’t we manage to choose between the dozen different laundry powders, the dozen different dog or cat food cans or the dozen different tobacco brands that exist already?
As there are a lot of ingredients already used that are known as safe, we don’t need to test new ingredients any more.
It’s time to stop animal testing.
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- Animal testing is cruel. Many animal tests lead to pain on animals and a part of the tests are performed without any pain killers. Some tests lead to permanent injury or death. The toxicology of some products are tested by putting it in the eyes of a rabbit for days.
ReplyDelete- Animals have rights too. Animals have rights as well and they shouldn’t be violated. Human beings are just another species of animals. Most of us wouldn’t accept that 100 million people would be submitted every year to non-voluntary tests (many leading to pain or death). Why do we allow it with animals? Animals are non-volunteers in tests when tests could be done with alternative methods.
- Animal tests aren’t reliable. People and animals are different and that’s why a medicine or cosmetic ingredient that is safe on animals may not be it on people or vis-versa. For example aspirin is toxic to rats and mice but not to people
- There are alternative to animal testing. These includes for example embryonic stem cell research. Also using volunteering people instead of non-volunteering animals is one of the alternatives.
- Animal tests are often unnecessary. As results from animal tests are often considered commercial secrets, it happens that the same products or ingredients are tested many times by different companies. The necessity of animal testing for cosmetics can be also questioned. Furthermore alternatives to animal research could be used.
This is ridiculously horrible…I’m crying I can’t believe there’s humans on earth who would actually do this stuff…
ReplyDeleteDONT GIVE ME THAT BULLSHIT about needing to test stuff on animals so that you know how to protect humans, THATS FUCKING SELFISH.
Certain humans are sinking to the lowest possible its ridiculous and depressing…
RIP all animal victims…you didn’t deserve any of it.