Why Is Animal Testing Unethical

While applying your makeup or washing your hair, have you ever thought about who has suffered so you can use these products? 100 million animals are put through unnecessary suffering, and they are dying because scientists are testing chemicals and products on them. So why is animal testing unethical, well, without animals, life wouldn’t be possible. We would all go extinct because animals help our ecosystem. Oxygen, clean water, and soils wouldn’t be possible without animals. Scientists often don’t even benefit from testing on animals. The test results often don’t come out how they expected them to come out, therefore, many animals die wastefully due to failed test results. We can‘t take animals for granted and waste them any longer.

There are many types of animal testing that are done. Some of the most common types are eye irritancy, acute toxicity, and skin sensation. Eye irritancy is mostly done on rabbits. What the companies do is put drops of washing liquids, cosmetics and some other substances in the rabbit's eyes. This causes redness, swelling of the eye, blurriness and usually blindness. Acute
When the scientists test on animals, it takes them quite long to finish up the testing, then when it fails, a lot of time gets wasted. This is not only time-consuming but money consuming too. The tools they used to test on animals are very expensive, they cost thousands. As I said before, when the testing fails, the money goes to waste. A lot of time, money and energy is wasted from testing on animals, therefore, it is unethical. But if it always fails and the results don’t come out as planned, why do they still do it? They do it because they feel that it is very useful, but there are very good companies out there such as Burt Bees, Lush, Bath and Body Works, Sephora and many more that do not test on animals. Testing on animals doesn’t make their company any