You are at your local shopping center and you come across a variety of advertisements of women prepped to perfection and hundreds of cosmetic stores signaling your attention. You go inside and take swatches of the stunning, shimmering eyeshadows and gaze in awe thinking about how amazing you would look in it. What you do not know is the unfortunate truth about the process of what is manufactured. Millions of our most cherished animals suffer severely every year due to the inhumane act of companies like Mac Cosmetics, who test their products on them.
For a long time, Mac Cosmetics was known as a crueltyfree company until it recently became official that they were no longer. Correlating with their new title, they have avoided confrontation from
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Mac Cosmetics, being one of the most popular beauty franchises, will undertake any task possible in order to get the results they need to benefit their company,
disregarding the fact that animals are not something disposable. A few damages that occur externally include excessive bleeding, swollen eyelids, and blindness. If that is not enough animals can also experience paralysis, seizures, and occasionally death. Death is never a tragic circumstance to scientists because once the animals are deceased they are cut up to have their organs examined.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), being the largest animal rights contributor, mention the bad science of animal testing by arguing against animal rights with a few common points and counterpoints. “Science has a responsibility to use animals to keep looking for cures for all the horrible diseases that people suffer from”, PETA strongly disagrees by declaring that millions of dollars are spent every year for animal experimentation while statistics show that the United States are the second worst in infant mortality in the developed world. Not only do we severely damage our beloved creatures but we also do it for unjustified reasons, when there are more options to be explored. They also provide a list of cruelty-free beauty products online, ways you can help stop companies from furthering their experimentation on