That makeup your wearing, or that medication you took last night may have been tested on a rabbit and killed it. Knowing that would you want to put it back on? “The use of non-animal test to assure consumers safety has followed an upward trajectory for at the last 20 years and that trend has accelerated as countries around the world are prohibiting the use of animal testing for cosmetics” - Monica Engebretson “while 80% of the world still allows animal testingfor cosmetics, roughly half of the global cosmetic market ahs firmly closed to animal testing cosmetics” In other words, half of the makeup brands globally have been shut down due to animal testing in there products. Animal testing is cruel and inhumane, animal testing kills millions of animals every year. Those animals could …show more content…
This shows it’s possible to succeed in making medications and cosmetics without greatly harming an animal.
There are some differences between animals and humans causing the reactions to not be the same. Doing the expiriments on any living thing would be controversial, but this shows that we use stuff in the cosmetics (specifically) that we shouldn’t be using! It is showing that we need more organic and natural ingrediants!
“Throughout the era of modern medicine, animals have been used extensively to develop and test therapies before they are tested in humans.” - R.I. Scarborough “But far more problematic is a drug that seems safe in animal trials, but turns out to be unsafe in humans. The consequences can be tragic. For instance, thalidomide (a drug to treat morning sickness) does not cause birth defects when given to pregnant rats and mice, but in humans it caused an international epidemic of birth defects, including severe limb malformations, in the 1950s and 1960s.”
Animal testing should be illegal because of how many animals are killed annually. It should be trailed as animal abuse. Animal testing is