Title: Cosmetic Testing on Animals Author: Annonymous Rating: Rate this Paper Every year‚ millions of animals suffer and die in painful tests to determine the safety of cosmetics. Substances such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits‚ rats‚ guinea pigs‚ dogs‚ and other animals‚ despite the fact that the test results don’t help prevent or treat human illness or injury. Cosmetics are not required to be tested on animals and since non-animal alternatives exist‚ it’s hard to understand why
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Animal Testing Controversy When shopping at a store‚ no one ever thinks when he or she buys makeup‚ cleaning products‚ deodorant or lotion‚ that it has potentially hurt an innocent animal. In fact‚ millions of animals die every year due to a chemical drug. Those animals harmed never got a chance to live a normal‚ animal life; instead‚ they were put into cages and locked up for years at a time. While animal testing can be used to ensure the safety of certain drugs for humans‚ potentially
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FIX:Everyone loves animals! They are soft‚ loveable‚ and good hearted. Knowing that animals are so innocent‚ it is astonishing that scientists all over the world have been using animals for medical purposes.The medical purposes are mostly experiments to find cures for diseases or ailments in humans. There has been quite a bit of controversy as to why Animal Testing has to be done at all. There are so many animals out there who are used‚ hurt‚and experimented on. However‚ there is another side to
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Animal Testing: Beneficial In the 1930s‚ Hitler passed anticruelty laws against animals in Germany. This seems strange considering the way Hitler treated humans during World War II. Various life-saving procedures have been discovered and perfected by animal testing. “How would you feel if the one research project that may save your child’s life was priced out of existence because pound animals were banned from testing” (Rowan 93). Without animal testing‚ humans would have to face the negative
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office (2017) animal testing “remains a vital tool” especially when carrying out research into diseases and in developing “new medicines‚ treatments and technologies”. Scientists state that animal testing is effective as animals are biologically similar to humans and so can provide scientists with ‘important clues about diseases’ Animal testing also means new drugs can be tested for possible side effects‚ before the drug is given to humans in clinical trials (Understanding animal research‚2013‚ RSPCA
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that have split the world in half. Animal testing is one of these many disputes‚ that may not have an end. Animal experimentation‚ or animal testing if you will‚ is when animals of different species are being tested on‚ varying from space research to agricultural testing. People in our world may disagree on the purpose of animal testing on the grounds of how cruel‚ and unruly it is to do to poor innocent animals. On the other hand‚ some people say that animal testing may have possibly been one of the
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The number of animal tests rose from 1‚566‚944 in 1997 to 2‚705‚722 from the Journal of Medical Ethics. Animal Experimentation is when animals are used for scientific research and to test certain products. Scientists have used this method for a number of years and rely on it to be the most adequate way. However‚ it may not be the most accurate way of testing. Animal Testing has gotten more popular since the late 1900s. Many different types of animals are used in research‚ some of them are not practical
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Animal experimentation‚ animal research and animal practice all generally mean the same thing. One may be more familiar with the term animal testing. Animal testing has been a controversial topic between supporters and the adversary for quite some time‚ but animal testing is wrong‚ even if it helps find cures for illnesses. Between all the strong public opinions‚ hefty fines and likelihood of the tested drugs working on humans‚ it is best if animal testing comes to an end. Animal testing came
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tested on animals to check for the degree of skin irritation‚ skin penetration‚ eye irritation‚ carcinogenicity‚ etc. On the basis of these tests‚ it is determined whether the said product is fit for human use or not. Even though it is not mandatory to get premarket approval for all the products‚ the manufacturer is expected to place a warming note on the product if it has not been tested. Doing so can have negative implications on the brand‚ and therefore the companies prefer to go with animal testing
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. While animal testing has led to many scientific breakthroughs in the treatments of diseases and illnesses‚ researchers should consider the animals’ interests and feelings. There should be more readily available alternatives to live animal testing because animals feel pain and have emotions that are no different than humans. Animals are left disfigured‚ scarred‚ sick or even die from these strenuous experiments. Animals have been used throughout history for biomedical research. Greek physicians
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