Most unethical experiments that we talk about now days are usually ones about people. But we never really pause to think about all the unethical testing that is done to animals just for the greater good of humans. Just so that we can have the perfect shampoo or the right medicine that wont harm us in any way. Ninety-four percent of animal testing is done to determine the safety of cosmetics and household products leaving only 6% for medical research!
Agencies don't even require animal research to sell their products but they do it anyways to prove that it wont cause any harm to humans. Animal testing has been banned in many countries around the world already, so why do these companies need to continue this inhumane testing?
Why should these animals have to go through this just for us? It's not like they would ever give consent to being tested on if they had the power to communicate. Instead they suffer through being given endless drugs or having pain inflicted on them in the more unethical cases.
Every year millions of animals are poisoned, blinded, or killed by animal testing in companys search to evaluate the toxicity of the consumer products and their ingredients. Animals are forced to swallow or inhale huge quantities of the test substance, or endure the pain of a chemical eating away at their eyes or skin. With ethics its hard to compare humans and animals because we both have very different minds and bodies but this treatment shouldn't be allowed on any living creature!
The scientific merit of animal testing and cosmetics is often quite low.
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