Top Ten!

When you see animal testing you think rats automatically. In this post I am going to inform you of other animals that are being tested.

PETA.com says:

1.       Mice/Rats

2.       Cats

3.       Dogs

4.       Rabbits

5.       Primates

6.       Pigs

Answers.com says:

7.       Hamster

8.       Guinea Pig

9.       Ferrets

Do Something says:

10.   Birds

Also starting on the companies that are still testing animals. You can find all of these on The Vegetarian Site:

1)      Glade

2)      Glass Plus

3)      Good Skin

4)      Sally Beauty Supply

5)      American Beauty

6)      Avon

7)      Axe

8)      Banana Boat

9)      Carpet Fresh

10)   Flirt!

11)   Alcon Labs

12)   Herbal Essence

13)   Resolve

14)   S.O.S

15)   Tide

16)   Lipton

17)   Lava

18)   Kleenex

19)   Sun Star

20)   Lysol

It’s funny how many companies that still test on animals that we don’t see. The bottles don’t say that they test on animals but we don’t really look for the ones that say “NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS.”  Some of these items I never thought would test on animals such as Lipton and Lysol. That just goes to show how much we pay attention to the products that we use.

Looking at it now I use a lot of these products, and didn’t even know that the company tested on the animals that I am trying to save. Go through your  chemicals, and see how many of them have the label on it that say that they do not test on animals and put them to one side and then put all the ones that do have this on them and compare the two. When you look at it you might be surprised how many that you use and loves does test on animals.

Why would these companies want to hurt animals just to make money, is my question. People that care for these animals need to stand up and make a change for them because they can’t do it themselves. Animals have rights too.

Red wolf, November 16, 2008. Available at http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3011/3035024573_d799f0a6ef_b.jpg

Rats vs. Rabbits

Rats and rabbits are both used for chemical testing. Rabbit lover say that rabbits have it worse, while rat loves say that rats have it worse. I guess that it depends. My personal opinion is that I do not like rats but I don't believe that they should be treated like this.

Rabbits have test such as soap, cosmetics, household chemicals, and pesticides. These rabbits have these chemicals dropped in their eyes to see how the chemical will react to the contact with eyes. Rabbits, as stated in one of my recent post, are killed shortly after these test are done. PETA states that rabbits are used for disease, skin conditions, and spinal conditions. On Cosmetic Testing it claims that rabbits are bound in stocks and only their heads are out. It also claims that they are often not given any anesthesia during these painful test.
The test for a rabbit can last anywhere from seven to eighteen days. These test often result in bleeding, swollen eyes lids, and or blindness. These are only a couple of things that can result while these animals are being tested.

Two albino rabbits. March 11, 2010. Available at http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2778/4424960926_9a1138781c_b.jpg 

Rats- According to PETA: Rats have toxicology test run on them. Along with this they have psychological test such as terror, anxiety, depression and helplessness, run on them to try to help prevent these in humans. Rats are used for such test due to the fact that their bodies often react to chemicals the way that a humans will react. Just a fact to know, rats often put themselves in harms way to keep other living creatures safe. Rats are not protected by the testing laws so they are often not offered any kind of pain relief. The scientist don't even have to count and keep records of the rats that are used for the test that they run.

Two albino rats. April 22, 2010. Available at http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4020/4688840207_71c80393f9_m.jpg

In my opinion they both have it hard, but we all have our opinions. Many people are afraid of rats and say that they should be used because they are nasty little rodents that have no role in society, I will be the first to admit that I do not like them, but they do not deserve to be tortured like that.  You pick rats, or rabbits?

Testing for Animals?

“NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS!” Is what you may see on the side of many bottles so we over look how many animals are having chemicals injected in to their bodies and blood streams. In this blog I hope to inform you on about how many animals are tested and what they go through.

When looking at a testing lab you may see rats and mice. Looking closer is much more. Test labs use

·       Cats

·       Dogs

·       Rabbits

·       Frogs

·       Monkeys

·       Apes

·       Pigs

·       Hamsters

and many other animals that are caught. According to Animal Experiments, "about three million animals are used for testing each year." This number does not include the animals bred just so their bodies can be used in research.

Rabbits are most commonly found in testing labs for cosmetics and cleaning supplies. So they put a little make-up on a rabbit it isn’t the end of the world, right? If you believe this your wrong. According to PETA rabbits’ "have cosmetics, dish washing liquid, and drain cleaner dropped into the eye of the rabbit to see how it will react to the chemical, which may cause the rabbit to go blind." Even then the rabbit is put to death shortly after the testing of these chemicals. Another test that rabbits have to go through is having their backs shaved and then chemicals placed on the bear skin. These chemicals are left for two weeks often burning the skin and damaging the skin tissue. No pain relief is given, they are soon killed afterwards.

We don’t see what happens to these animals. Some of us don’t even care what happens to them. For the ones that do care we can stand up and do something because even if these tests are passed by the animals they don’t really mean that it is safe for people. Meaning that these animals are killed for nothing.

Two rabbits June 24, 2009, available at
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2426/3664382839_1a2e0451fb_m.jpg