Essay On Banning Animal Testing

Animal testing on cosmetics should be banned. People are put in jail all the time for abusing their pets, but people are never put in jail for inhumane testing of cosmetics and other pharmaceuticals on these same animals. I have done a lot of research on animal testing and methods we can use that are more effective and don’t use animals through high school in my free time because of curiosity, so I know a lot of random facts about the harmful nature of this and alternative methods. Animals are being tortured to “help” make better medicine and, the majority of the time does not affect people the same way as animals. Animal testing is inhumane and ineffective the majority of the time, it should be banned.
The media is full of people talking and raising awareness for domestic animal abuse and neglect. ASPCA commercials, being the most popular, are extremely sad and show starving puppies, most people need to change the channel when they come on because of how unpleasant they are. People who raise awareness for animal rights usually focus on the dog fights, puppy mills, and pets that get left
Cosmetic and drug companies should advertise their use of animal testing in the same way as tobacco companies. When people buy cigarettes and dip, they always have to say things like, “this product can cause tooth loss, lung cancer, mouth disease/cancer, etc.” Cosmetic and drug companies should have to do the same thing. When businesses use animal testing, their products should all, in bold letters and in an obvious spot, say something like, “animals were harmed making this lipstick,” or, “600 baby mice were poisoned in the making of this skin cream,” because people don’t know. If this was what businesses had to do with their products packaging, they would suffer and it would basically force them into finding another way to test their products, so they can get the animal abuser label off of their