Essay On Cosmetics Animal Testing

The cosmetic industry uses animals to determine the safety of their products which is beyond inhumane to use animals just for beauty. Cosmetic testing is by far the worst kind of testing there is poor, defenseless animals that are torchured just for a new perfume or other beauty product. The animal rights organization PETA has shown that, ¨Animals have different biological systems than humans do therefore the tests cannot be as accurate¨ (Rodgers). They do many horrific tests for example one of them is called an irritancy test which is where a liquid, powdered, etc.. substance is dropped into a rabbit's eyes and the after effects of the test can be irritation or even bleeding in the rabbits eyes!! Over half of the animals that are tested on like the rabbits die 2 to 3 weeks afterwards. Cosmetic testing is not only abusive to animals, but is highly illogical to because it is also highly expensive. Alternative testing for cosmetics could retain the same amount of more reliable data, which is less expensive and not cruel to animals!

Animal testing is an illogical way to use animals as a test tool to try and uncover new cures. Animal researchers have been using animals for many years for medical research. The animal researches from the animal rights organization PETA have said that with the results of the animal testing they gathered, that they are closer to finding cures to many diseases- such as the cure to cancer. In fact though, it has been proven that all the researchers found was the cure for cancer in mice, but it simply didn't work in humans, according to a former head of the U.S. National Cancer Institute
All suffering is undesirable whether it be in animals or humans. Just because animals do not have the ability to talk, or have moral judgement does not give us humans the right to discriminate against the defenseless creatures. These animals are put through so much pain, suffering, and traumatizing