Gigantic figures invade your home and kidnap you and your family, keep you hostage, clipping your head in a tight metal restraint and drip painful chemicals in your eyes and on your skin. You’re in pain and confused. How would you feel if this was your situation? Millions of helpless animals are taken into laboratories and used as test subjects for cosmetics and medications to be used on humans, and are in that exact situation. Alternatives for both types of animal testing are on the rise, making this testing cruel and unnecessary. Animals should not be taken from their natural habitat in nature and subjected to these medications and cruel cosmetic tests. Testing cosmetics on animals is unnecessary and has been outlawed by the UK and other states in the European Union. Mice, rats, and rabbits have their fur shaved off and have chemicals smeared on their skin, chemicals that companies want to put in goods such as shampoo, lotions, and other products that come into direct contact with skin. Chemicals wanting to be used in cosmetics, such as …show more content…
There are human beings who are willing to to donate their skin grafts to be tested on and reproduced in the lab for multiple tests. You can be paid a small amount for this contribution, but those who take on being test subjects as their career can make up to $60,179! Volunteers can also donate cells from the body parts that the animals would normally be test on. These cells can be reproduced in the lab and chemicals can be dispensed onto those, rather than helpless animals. There have been many computer programs designed to imitate the human skin and what certain chemicals would do to it, and those have proved to be much more insightful than the old dated animal tests. Animals are not greatly harmed in pharmaceutical tests, they are still proved wasteful and