Why We Shouldn T Animal Testing Be Banned Essay

Don’t we all love our cats and dogs, our beloved pets? We would all be bought to tears if anything were to happen to them. Why is it not the same for all other animals? The cruel treatment of animals needs to stop. As a leading researcher in the Animal Cruelty Australia Program, I have seen the horrific treatment of animals first hand. This conference on the unfair treatment of animals aims to change the way people think about cruelty to animals and what Australia needs to do to stop it. Animals used for food production, animal testing and entertainment are all suffering. Animals are not mankind’s property, we must look after them by treating them as equals and we must stop animal cruelty.
Over 500 million animals are kept in factory farms across Australia
Do you really even know which products use animal testing? Your toothpaste from Colgate and Oral-B, your deodorant from Dove and Lynx and your makeup from MAC and Clinique: all animal tested products. Some of Australia’s most used brands use animals to their advantage when there are other modern methods of testing products that are much more reliable. The unnecessary and unreliable experiments on animals should be banned. Dogs, cats, mice and rabbits are blinded, burned, poisoned and killed in painful experiments. Although brands and companies don’t use animals for testing here in Australia, it is still legal. Unfortunately it will be a tough challenge to stop international cold hearted companies from experimenting on animals overseas. However, by only buying products that are known to not use animal testing or looking out for the symbol of a leaping bunny -the internationally known symbol for cruelty free products- is a good way for Australia to fight animal testing. It’s time that the world uses more accurate and humane ways to test products opposed to destroying the lives of innocent animals. Animals are not ours to