Animal testing- the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs.
Animals are routinely being sacrificed for the “common good” of humans. They are poked, prodded, poisoned, forced to live in terrible conditions, and even cut open so that we humans can save risking our own species. This is morally as well as humanly wrong; if we don’t want to test the product on a living human being, a person who has complete thoughts and feelings just as you and I do, then how is it even remotely fair to force it upon animals? First and foremost, they have no say in it. It’s not like they signed up to be a part of it, oh no, they were bread, born, and raised for the sole purpose of being used to test new products. Studies show that there are vast differences between the human anatomy and that of lab animals. And not only is the DNA different, but studies also show that alternatives to animal testing are humane, more accurate, less expensive, and less time-consuming than animal experiments. If all of this is true, then why I ask you, do we still continue to harm and even kill millions of animals each and every year? Many researchers are slow and resilient to change their normal routines. They think it easier to stay with the way that things have always been, than to change their already comparatively easy lives in order to save those of innocent animals. Alternative or new methods include computer models, cell cultures, and human studies. And there are sure to be many more ideas and research methods to come.
Want to know how you can help?
Protest, do something about it. If you buy a product and later find out that it has been tested on animals before sold to stores, return it. Or better yet, send it back to the company along with a note explaining why you won’t buy their products anymore. I know that that is only one unsatisfied customer and so they may not pay much attention to your personal note, but if we can get enough people out there complaining, well, then we may have something.
In conclusion, I’d like all of you to stop and think next time you use your favorite shampoo or body wash that is being tested on animals. Think really hard if buying the off-brand product is worth saving millions of innocent lives. In the end, I think the answer should be clear. Make the right decision and buy non-animal tested products from now on.
-Audrey
Thanks to: http://www.stopanimaltests.org/index.aspx
http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/
http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/testing.asp
hunterjumpers724 said,
March 24, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Animal testing is the most disgusting thing ever! I wish every person that has every toyed with the works of testing were put through all of the torture as those poor animals were! I really do wonder why we have it in the first place, who just decided that we should try out all of our product son animals instead of just NOT using it. Like we can’t live without a couple of those “fancy” hair products, cosmetics, playtex products, clorox, pinesol. All of these things are used by a lot of people, and I’m sure that they wouldn’t think that they were actually tested on animal life!
ilikewar said,
March 26, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
For this post I have one question—what are the alternatives? If they are easily accessible, (and they should be, with all that technology out there), then they should definitely be used to test products. If they are difficult to get, then animal testing will remain the most convenient way to test products we plan to let humans use.
yogibear12 said,
March 27, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
i think it is very sad that humans would do such things on animals. i mean if there gonna do it to animals they should do it to humans to, because some animals are as smart as humans.