Why Should Animal Testing Be Outlawed

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"” (Jeremy Bentham) Everyone wants to see cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, stroke, heart attack, and AIDS. (Anti-Vivisection Society) They also want the use of cosmetics. People cure these by using animals to model a human." Product testing is commonly performed on animals to measure the levels of skin irritancy, eye tissue damage, and many other side effects."(Facts: Cosmetic Testing)" Scientists use animals to test a theory and then alter their theories based upon the valuable information gathered from each experiment. However, animal testing should be outlawed because it is hurtful and not necessary." (Algoe) Animals also

Because of the harm done to the animal subjects, this testing is opposed by animal rights activists and others, and is banned in much of the European Union. Using animal testing in the development of cosmetics may involve testing either a finished product or the individual ingredients of a finished product on animals, often rabbits, but also mice, rats, and other animals. Not all companies who provide cosmetics are using animals to test their products on. Cosmetics manufacturers who genuinely do not test on animals generally use the following for safety testing of their products: reliance on existing natural or synthetic ingredients, compounds and substances, which have already been extensively tested on animals; avoiding novel ingredients or combinations of ingredients that have not been fully tested and may not be safe; testing on human volunteers/clinical trials. This presumes that cosmetics companies are already using computer modeling and cell cultures to simulate human tissue, two techniques that have had ambiguous utility in discovering problems early. Supporters of animal testing say that neither can fully replace live human or non-human animal

Evidence that proves animal testing is not appropriate anymore is the inaccuracy of animal testing. Results of animal testing are relied by medicine manufacturers in producing their products. If there is a single problem exists in the results, the whole medicines being produced based on the results will be very dangerous to be consumed. Because animal testing do not always give dependable and accurate results, many medicines actually could have opposite impacts on the human consumers. Instead of curing, they could be damaging. (Amin) For example, LD tests do not measure human health hazards, but only determine how toxic the product is to the type of animal it was tested on. Test results cannot be extrapolated from a mouse to a rat, let alone from a rat to a human. Each species reacts differently to various substances. Moreover, LD test results can be affected by the age and sex of the animals tested their housing and nutritional conditions and how the compound is administered. (Facts: Cosmetic Testing) Not only does the medical testing hurt animals but it can hurt humans