Animals have to suffer just so that we can have cosmetics.
Why should animals have to suffer when this can be avoided? These are
some of the questions that you may be wondering and if so I will help
answer that question.
Well if the animals were not being tested on, we would
not have products which are most of our toiletry products, cleaning solutions,
makeup or any of these things. Do you really think that we can live with
out these things? Maybe but for now we need them and without animal testing
we could be in danger if we use these things.
Most people think that testing cosmetics on animals
is a bad thing to do. But what they don't know is that when the animals
are in the labs the scientists make their stay as best as possible. For
example with chimps they give them ropes and things to climb and with
the dogs they have people that play with them and the dogs can visit other
dogs and they have people that walk the dogs.
Animal testing can help save peoples lives. Without
it we don't know if a product is safe to use or not. They only way to
tell would be to test them on ourselves. For example if scientists test
a new drug that they think will cure a disease or sickness they can test
it on an animal to see if their theory is right and if so they can use
it on humans who have that sickness or disease. People will be able to
use these new drugs to help them with their illness and even save some
of their lives.
Even though there is no law saying that you have to
test cosmetics on animals before you sell your product that would be very
dangerous for humans. Imagine waking up in the morning and you put on
your favorite eye shadow or you brush your teeth and then you have to
pay for it by going blind or getting a type of cancer.
The things that can make people think that animal testing is wrong are that some people think that what the scientists do, they do with bad intensions. But they don't do it with bad intensions they do it because it might save a persons life or make a persons life easier. So it's not the scientist's fault the way they see it is if they can maybe kill or hurt one animal, who knows how many more lives it can save. And they think that it would be better to save more lives then only one when they have the technology to maybe prevent some of those deaths.