When picking out a mascara or cleaning products at a store, most people do not think they could be supporting animal testing. Experimentations on animals can range from testing cosmetics to prescription drugs. Popular brands like Covergirl, Maybelline, Windex, and Lysol use animal testing despite the humane alternative methods to test products. Companies test on animals to ensure that the product is safe for consumers to use. Testing on animals is not new, but it is not publicized enough for people to be aware of it. The belief that scientists should test products on animals should be stopped because it is animal abuse, ineffective, there are alternative ways for companies to test products, and it is expensive. Across the world, companies are finding it necessary to force animals to inhale toxic fumes, force-feed them, and drip chemicals into the animals’ eyes. In a 2015 article by Michael Casey, a study that was done in the Journal of Medical Ethics said that the number of animal testing has increased (Casey). The number of animal testing was 1,566,994 million in 1997 and it has gone up to 2,705,772 million in 2012 (Casey). There is an estimation that around 115 million animals are in laboratory testing worldwide. Only some countries collect and publish the data on how many animals are used for animal testing. In the United States, only 90% of the animals used in animal testing are excluded from the data, which means that the number published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is much higher (Humane Society International). …show more content…
to help people understand more about anatomy. Early Greek scientists would perform on live animals. Herophilus and Erasistratus used animal testing to learn more about sensory and motor nerves, and tendons