“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.
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| Two rabbits June 24, 2009, available at http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2426/3664382839_1a2e0451fb_m.jpg |
I usually try to buy products that say they are not tested on animals. I prefer it, because they're torturing and killing animals. Your post is very good and informational. People need to know things or else more harmless animals will be killed due to lipstick and face creams.
ReplyDeleteI am going through all of my makeup and stuff and getting rid of the ones that do not say not tested on animals.
ReplyDeleteThank you for helping to try to make a difference in the world for animals.
DeleteI will no longer buy anything tested on animals. I will start checking labels this is terrible.
ReplyDeleteThank you April if you like to check out which companies still use animals for testing such as the ones that I said above here is the URL- http://www.thevegetariansite.com/ethics_test.htm
DeleteI agree with April. None of my products are tested on animals.
ReplyDeleteA few suggestions: breed=bred, make sure to use "marks" around anything copied from another source, even if it's a few words, and break down your paragraphs even further.
I love that you are encouraging people to help animals in such an easy way.