All over the world animals are used for benefit of the human race. Reality is that in this anthropocentric society everyone thinks that animals and nature are here and exist solely for our own benefit. This way of thinking causes animals of many species to be exploited and submitted to all kinds of abuse and pain. They are used for animal testing, in the food industry, circuses, zoos, and other kinds of entertainment. In this text I plan to talk about each one of these big industries that subject animals to horrible pain.
Testing products that are going to be sold to people all over the world on animals is a practice that aims to guarantee that the product they are selling to the public is safe, all of this because people are the only animals that can sue each other.
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What most people don’t know is that many of the most popular animals for us are also victims of this horrible method: dogs (the preferred race for testing is beagles), minipigs and cats. All these animals never see the sun or the grass, they live their lives locked in little metal boxes and are submitted to horrible practices all the time, using the testing product, which in most cases doesn’t go right and is harmful the first couple tries. They lose their sight, they are slowly poisoned, suffer of painful injuries in their skin or get harmed with the tools used on the procedure.
Every year in the United States nearly 75.000 dogs, 22.000 cats, more than 1.000.000 mice and rats, 125.000 primates and about 241.000 rabbits are trapped, abused, hurt and killed every year. The most common products that use animal testing are cosmetics, personal care products like toothpaste and deodorants, different types of medicine, baby care products, perfumes, home cleaning products, big pharma, genetics and disease