Persuasive Essay On Animal Testing

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Testing on animals should not be enforced because animals have not done nothing to us humans. Since 1938 testing has been around and it all determines on what animal it is and what kind of testing they will go through. Animals are tested for a variety of things including cosmetics, human medication, and food products.

Cosmetic is a big product now in this generation and before the companies can sell it to the population they have to test it first. The reason why they test it is because they don’t want anyone to get bad chemical burns, rashes, and allergic reactions. Monkeys and dogs does not get tested on for cosmetics, only guinea pigs, rats, rabbits, and mice. They test for skin and eye irritation, they will shave a rabbit and put the chemical on the shaved part and they will put drops into their eyes, it will take about weeks and up to months before results come out. Testing have scientific limitations, different species respond differently when exposed to the same chemicals. Some of the test may not be relevant to humans, as they can under or overestimate real-world hazards to people. Cosmetics are not the only thing that get test on animals, human medication is another big test that animals have to go through. …show more content…

Animals are the most expensive ways of conducting research, they are normally bred and kept unwanted infections. One million animals suffer from cosmetics each year, the AWA helps what they can and make sures the animals aren’t dying from these test. Rabbits, mice, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, and mice are used for cosmetic testing, these six animals are used for a lot of different testing. Human medication is harmful because of all the chemicals and will kill them at least food products aren’t has

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