...was a cosmetic product that was in the market called Lash Lure. This product was a mascara product that many women were using on their eyelashes to make the look longer and bolder. Lash Lure had contained p-phenylenediamine, which was an untested chemical that proved to be harmful to the customers using it. The p-phenylenediamine caused horrible blisters, abscesses, and ulcers on the face, eyelids, and eyes of the consumers who used Lash Lure, and it led to blindness for some. In one instance, the ulcers were so severe that a woman developed a bacterial infection and died. This incident and others like it led the United States Congress to pass the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act of 1938. This law gave the FDA regulatory authority over cosmetic products, and companies began to test products and ingredients on animals in an effort to assure safety for consumers. The FDA “urges cosmetic manufacturers to conduct whatever tests are appropriate to establish that their cosmetics are safe”, but “does not specifically mandate animal testing for cosmetic safety.” The issue that is being raised is it ethical to harm an animal for the sake of marketing a new cosmetic product. Facts: Every year, an estimated 70 million animals are maimed or killed for cosmetic testing in the US alone, and nearly $12 billion taxpayer dollars are spent yearly on the practice. Labs that use mice, rats, birds, reptiles and amphibians are exempted from the minimal protections under the Animal Welfare...
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...How would you feel if you were being injured or even killed to test different cosmetics? That’s what is happening to these poor animals involved in animal testing. Animal testing is a horrible and rather controversial issue. These animals are being used to test products such your own foundation.Throughout time we have revolutionized the way we test medicine. Some weren’t tested at all and others on animals. Now we when we get these products we get angry if the irritate our skin, but what we don’t realize is what is behind the scenes. Behind the cosmetics are facilities where animals are burned, poisoned, shaved, and killed just to make sure these products are okay for human skin. Animal testing is inhumane, harmful to the animals’ health, and...
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...its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” (qtd. in Mendoza). Today, some of the world’s most advanced countries exploit animals for cosmetic testing. Cosmetic animal testing should be illegal due to it being inhumane, having inaccurate test results, and alternative testing methods are available. First, animal testing is inhumane because it causes animals a lot of pain and permanently damages their bodies. A common way to test chemicals is the Draize test. During this procedure chemicals such as toluene are dropped into rabbits’ eyes and causes severe pain and blindness (Moran and Locke). Testing chemicals on animals’ skin is also common. Exposure to large...
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...of Animal Testing in Cosmetic Companies Preface The ethical treatment of animal testing is a controversial topic in the field of zoology. Different aspects on animal testing range from positivity to negativity. Animals such as dogs and rats are used for experimental trials because they have been found to have psychological and genetic correlations that relate to humans. Although the benefits and improvements to modern medicine made it possible to ban animal experimentation completely, animals are still the main subjects in cosmetic industries. Something important to keep in mind when it comes to animal experimentation is that, “Most experimentation has nothing to do with disease research… it is cosmetic product testing” (Medical News Online). According to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) over one hundred million animals suffer from experiments to test cosmetics. Many people stand against animal experimentation claiming that animals are not ours to experiment on, and even though that’s an important point, there are many other issues that should be discussed. For example, ninety two percent of all animal trials in cosmetics that are effective on animals are ineffective on humans (ASPCA). Meaning that the reasoning behind it is the lower cost of animal testing provided to those companies. Unfortunately, theses experiments are the cheapest options and some companies are required by the FDA to test all new cosmetic ingredients on animals. Animal testing can...
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...Essay Animal Testing All around the world, animal testing has been a controversial and talked about topic. It has helped the human race become more advanced in sciences and technology. Could the human medicine be as advanced if animal testing not allowed? Animal testing has opened many doors for medicine and helped so many people with tragic illnesses like cancer and AIDS. Animal experiments and testing is a good thing because it makes safe drugs, safe cosmetics, and helps people with deadly illness. Animal research has played a major part in the development of medicine to make it safer for people to take. First, testing new medications on animals is very important before releasing it to the public. For example, a drug called Thalidomide was prescribed to pregnant women in Europe to reduce nausea. The Thalidomide medication caused 10,000 babies to have birth defects. “It was largely avoided in North America because federal health and drug agencies believed Thalidomide had not been adequately tested on animals” (Research). Another reason why it is important to test drugs on animals before giving it to humans is because back in 1937 an antibacterial drug was released and killed 107 people. Manufacturers at the time did not have to prove if drugs were safe to take before being sold. Drug testing on animals goes to prove how important it is for drugs to be experimented on animals before being released to the public. Second, since people are so much like animals, we can...
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...Animal testing is defined as “the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as food or drugs” (“Animal Testing”). Unfortunately, some cosmetic companies treat animals unethically during testing; this brings into question whether or not the practice of animal testing can be considered ethical, or even necessary, in regards to cosmetic purposes. Those with pro-animal testing views may argue that the practice of testing cosmetics on animals is necessary for human safety, however, with modern advances in technology, there are now more options for alternatives than ever before. With support from major companies and governments, alternatives to animal testing could potentially become the standard in the near future. Those who support animal testing argue that animal testing in cosmetics is necessary to ensure that the product is safe for human use. They argue that “there is no adequate alternative to testing on a living whole-body system” (“Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing”), and this is why “animals are appropriate research subjects because . . . animals and humans are so biologically similar” (“Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing”). Humans are biologically similar to animals in...
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...Humans have a history of experimenting on animals, most often in the areas of medical and cosmetics. Humanity would not exist as it is today if animal experimentation was eliminated. The argument animal testing is useful cannot surpass its’ cruelty. With advancements in science and medical technology, animal testing no longer stands as a morally justifiable option. Animal testing lacks proof of necessity because it inhumanely abuses animals, carries inaccuracy, and is outdated. Animal experimentation is an abusive method of testing. Very minimal regulation in procedures can be done to animals during experimentation. Abuse defined as a verb, means to treat (a person or an animal) with violent cruelty, especially regularly or repeatedly. For research, animal abuse remains allowed legal: “the only U.S. law that governs the use of animals in laboratories, the Animal Welfare Act, allows animals to be burned, shocked, poisoned, isolated, starved, forcibly restrained, addicted to drugs, and braindamaged” (“Animal Testing is”). These methods are unbelievably cruel and abusive, as this suffering of the animals is intentional. Famous British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, famously proposed that “the question is not, can they reason? nor can they talk? but can they suffer?” The question asked, states that defenders of animal experimentation do not deny that animals suffer. Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation , explains that scientists cannot deny animal abuse, while the book stresses the ...
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...millions of animals undergo painful suffering or death as a result of scientific research into the effects of drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other chemical products. While most people think animal testing is necessary, others are upset by what they see as needless suffering. This essay looks at some of the positive and negative aspects of animal testing. Many medical treatments and procedures have been developed from experiments on animals. Since animals share many features with humans, scientists use animals to test the safety and effectiveness of newly developed drugs before pilot testing on small groups of patients. Medical teams practice new operating techniques such as transplants on animals. Without animal testing, many procedures or new drugs would be extremely unsafe. However, many people are concerned that animals are suffering unnecessarily and cruelly. They do not believe that every new drug needs to be tested on animals, especially with the huge database of knowledge and modern computer models. They also are worried that many animal tests are ineffective, pointing out that any drugs have had to be withdrawn from the market despite extensive testing. They particularly feel that animal testing should not be used for non-essential products such as cosmetics, shampoos, soaps, and cleaning products. Furthermore, some campaigners would like to see certain tests replaced and more humane methods used. We need to make sure that the millions of animals who are used...
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...Hair products, deodorants, toothpastes, male and female cosmetics, dish washing liquids, detergents, floor polishes, oven cleaners, pesticides and insect repellents. These are all products that we have used either today or somewhere in our lives but we are not the first ones that these products were used on. Every second all over the world, 22 animals are killed in laboratories that declare that they are saving humanity by testing various products on animals before they are released into stores for human access. But is mutilating, beating and enslaving innocent animals really worth the data? Not only are these animals being taken advantage of as they have no voice in the matter but animal testing has proven to be inaccurate. There is no need to test on animals anymore with the improvements in human cell testing. If we were wise enough we would realise this and stop killing millions of innocent animals every year for our own petty uses. Human subjects are not tested on without their consent yet when it comes to animals; rights go immediately out the window. Animals all over the world that are confined in suffocatingly small labs are deprived of all basic morals. These animals include: mice, rats, birds, sheep, rabbits, amphibians, guinea pigs, dogs, monkeys, pigs, reptiles and cats. All of which are used for testing to determine: how toxic a substance is if swallowed, how irritate a product may be if it gets into the eye or other sensitive part and to determine how toxic...
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...Word Count: 1218 Animals Have Feelings, Too Each year, more than 100 million animals, including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in the United States alone for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing (Peta). Before these innocent animals are killed, some are forced to inhale deadly chemicals, others are held down for hours while “scientists” burn their skin off or drill into their skull. Not only are these tests cruel, they are often inefficient and unpredictable. While many of these experiments often prove successful in animals like mice, they frequently do not work on humans. Testing on animals should be illegal because it is cruel to the animal and the studies done can cure an animal but not cure humans. Too many animals die each year after living an awful life as a test subject. Around one million animals, excluding rats, mice, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and agricultural animals used in agricultural experiments, are used in experiments every year in just the United Sates. Another one hundred million mice and rats are tested on, as well. In Canada, 3.2 million animals are used in experiments. In addition, around 80,000 animals are subjected to “severe pain near, at, or above the pain tolerance threshold of unanesthetized conscious animals” (Peta). It is heartbreaking to think about the pain that these animals endure every day....
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...progress can be judged by the way its animals are being treated.” –Mahatma Gandhi. Animal cruelty needs to be prohibited from testing in laboratories because its bad science, there are other humane ways of testing out drugs and substances, and lastly, if companies were to better advertise animal cruelty, consumers would be more informed about how procedures are taken into consideration when it comes to testing on animals. Buyers need to become more mindful of who they are supporting when it comes to animals being poisoned and killed through barbaric testing. By doing so, consumers would benefit in devoting their money into companies that care to test their products in humane ways and simply, joining the cause and fight to help stop animal cruelty. To begin with, the amount of procedures and science put into animal testing are essentially unreliable and are not one-hundred percent effectible. People who test on animals want us consumers to be certain that if they gave up their outdated habits, sick children and other disease and accident sufferers would drop dead in multitudes. The food and drug administration (FDA) says there are about ninety-two passable drugs out of one-hundred that will work on animals but will fail on humans because they are either hazardous or solely would not be of any affect. As well with the very few amount of drugs that were permitted for human use, at least half were relabeled because of the side effects the animal tests did not show. Most would argue...
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...monoxide! Animal testing must be banned for unnecessary tests. Animals should not be guinea pigs. Animals still feel the pain when they are injected with medicine just like humans. Humans can defend themselves and stop the pain, but the animals get strapped down and cannot move. It is better to have tests run on animals because animals will help find cures faster. Animal testing must be banned for unnecessary tests because a lot of animals are dying for no reason. Ninety-four percent of animal testing is done to determine the safety of cosmetics and household products (Animal Testing 1). That only leaves six percent for medical research (1). Ninety percent of all animals used in research are rats and mine (Animals Used in Experiments 4). Cosmetic testing is banned in Belgium, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (1). The United States has many companies that continue to legally perform horrible tests on animals (1). The United States Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission do not require animal testing for cosmetics or household products (1). The Animal Welfare Act is the only federal law to require basic standards of care, housing and treatment to the animals that are kept in the labs for testing (4). The LD50 test is one of the worst tests that was developed back in 1927 and is still used today (1). Groups of animals are dosed with different amounts of a test substance in order to determine the does which kills half of the animals (1)! Animals are...
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...can only be described as animal experimentation. Over 100 million animals suffer and die every year in cruel chemical, drug, food and cosmetic tests, biology lessons, medical training exercises, and curiosity-driven medical experiments that we can’t even begin to imagine. Plus, only 5% of these experiments only come out positive! No experiment is illegal, no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, or painful. Which really makes no since considering tons of people get arrested every day for animal cruelty, but yet it’s legal for people to do lethal and painful tests on them for “experimental” purposes only. Just how much do we really know what’s going on during those labs every day? To test cosmetics, household cleaners, and other everyday products, thousands of animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed every day by cruel and selfish corporations. Just think about that happening to your own animal, what would you say? Mice and rats are forced to inhale toxic fumes, dogs are force fed pesticides, and rabbits have harsh chemicals rubbed onto their skin and eyes. Is it really worth taking another animal’s life? They get hurt, bad. The kind of burning, bleeding, fear producing, cage circling, screaming, hurt, that we shutter to even imagine, all in the name of research. They have feelings just like we do. Tests have proven that animals scream or cry when they’re suffering, just like us, but unlike us, they can’t tell you how much it hurts. Animals react differently to drugs...
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...Introduction Every year, millions of animals are killed by the cosmetic companies to test their products. These companies use powerful drugs and lotions upon innocent animals to record the fatal side effects only to repeat the experiment over and over again regardless of the creatures’ pain and suffering. They also give various reasons to justify the cosmetic animal testing. The cosmetic companies claim that they test on animals to establish the safety of their products and ingredients for consumers. These companies also feel that they are safeguarding the environment. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that the companies do not require animal testing for cosmetics and alternative testing methods are available. In addition, there are no laws specifically demanding the testing of cosmetics on animals. The extent to which animal testing causes pain and suffering, and the ability of animals to experience and comprehend them, is a subject of much debate. Not only is animal testing inhumane, it is inherently inaccurate. United States government should ban animal experimentation for cosmetic products because it is torturous, unethical, and destroys uncounted animal lives. While thousands of animals are killed every year in the United States in product tests, there is no law that requires these tests to be done. Many large and small companies have announced moratoriums or an outright end to product tests. However, there are still a few companies that refuse...
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...INTRODUCTION The use of animals in scientific experimentation should continue to be fought against because it is morally wrong, there are alternatives to animal experimentation, and the unnecessary research it involves. The use of animals in experimentation has been a debate and a controversy for quite some time now. Many have strong opinions and views on this sensitive issue. That leads us to one question: Is it right? There are alternatives to animal experimentation, and they are addressed by some government websites. The number of animals used for experimentation tens of millions. Scientists defend animal research saying that this testing has contributed greatly to the advancement of cures for human diseases. However, in our generation, there should be a continued resolve in the fight against animal experimentation because it is morally wrong, there are now promising alternatives, and it involves a lot of unnecessary research. " The practice of animal experimentation and testing continues not because it is the most accurate or reliable means of research, but rather because of tradition, peer-pressure, and enormous promotion from those with strong vested interests." S.O.S at the University of Georgia (2012) BODY In my opinion animal testing is wrong, mainly for the moral debate of inflicting unnecessary pain to a living species, but it is also wrong for the environment. Scientists claim that testing on animals is the key to find cures for human diseases, and try to justify...
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