Cosmetics Testing On Animals

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Animal Testing in Cosmetics Every day, animals are tortured in labs. These animals live short, miserable lives as various experiments are done on them to test the results of cosmetic products. Things like hairspray and sunscreen are tested on animals. Animals are being tortured for hairspray. It’s really very profound that humans have the nerve and indecency to exploit helpless creatures in such way. The animals wait in their cages, cold scared and alone. They never know when the next test will be, or when their wounds will be healed. They receive no medical attention, and if they get too sick to have tests done on them, they’re killed on the spot. Sometimes then and there, workers crush their skulls or pull their little heads off. The people that work in the labs aren’t necessarily the professionals. They’re just there to do the dirty work, like killing little animals and depositing their dead bodies in a biohazard waste facility. This year alone, cosmetics companies killed millions of animals to test their products. All companies that test on animals say the same thing: they’re trying to make sure their products are safe for consumers. Which is really just another way of them saying they’re protecting themselves from a lawsuit. The FDA doesn’t even require any particular product test because they don’t have the authority. They require it be adequately tested, but not necessarily on an animal. Many people argue that it’s better to test on animals so that if anyone gets hurt it’s just an animal, not say, a father of two children. Animal testing is wrong and inhumane, but there are some instances where I would accept it as inevitable, for instance testing a drug to cure cancer. Testing a drug for something like cancer or stem cell research on an animal would be more tolerable. In some instances, we don’t have another way to test the effects of a particular
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