Animal Testing: Ethical And Morally Wrong?

Animal experimentation has been around for many years. Throughout history, animals have been hurt in many different experiments. Gandhi once said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” This quote best express the idea that animals are important, and they deserve to be treated well. Animals do not deserve to be in captivity or harmed. The use of animals in cosmetic experimentation is unethical, morally wrong, and it should stop. There are three reasons that will help to support this claim. First, the amount of animals being used for testing is really high along with the extremely high cost of testing. Secondly, in the modern era of technology, there are alternative methods of testing

These reasons will contribute to the claim that animal experimentation for cosmetics is unethical and morally wrong. First of all, the amount of animals being harmed for the increase of new cosmetics products is too large and some people do not agree that animal testing of cosmetics is wrong. According to PETA, in the United States in 2013, 1.04 million animals were used in overall experiments that included rats, mice, birds, reptiles, amphibians, plus an estimated 100 million mice and rats each year in the United States (Animal Experiments Overview). In another article from the Humane Society International, there is an estimate of approximately 100,000-200,000 animals suffer and die just for cosmetics every year around the world. The animal used varies which are rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, and mice. The thousands of animals being used for

There are some people who think animal experimentation for cosmetics is right and animal testing should continue because it helps to ensure the safety of the products. Testing the products and ingredients on the animals eliminates higher danger risks for the consumers. However, there are a lot of ways to ensure and test products that are animal cruelty free. There are plenty of companies that are animal cruelty free. For example Elf cosmetics, Urban Decay, and Lush cosmetics do not test on animals. The European Union ban on the sale of products tested on animals, further interprets the claim that change is possible and more companies should be animal cruelty