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Animal Testing; Helpful or Cruel?

It was a rainy November day when an evil scientist decided to throw out seven kittens that he decided were “useless” because of the injures he had done to them after his experiment failed. Lucky were the kittens that a kind young man came along and gave these poor kittens a shelter. This is the king of things that we need to put an end to before animals testing get out of control.

Animal testing has become a very big and controversial subject in the United States. All of the drugs, cosmetics, and food we eat have to be tested before they can be packaged and sent to the stores. The object that scientists are most likely to test on are animals. The animals go through a lot of pain and suffer a lot. Animals get addicted to drugs, burned, starved, cut open, and they are even put at risk with their lives without anyone to defend or protect them. We humans sometime may take advantage of animals for our personal use without us feeling sorry for them, but lets switch sides with the animals that are being tested and injured to see if we like being the ones getting injected with deadly chemicals. We need to put an end to animal testing.

Animal testing is cruel and animals do have rights. Animals bring joy to a household or may just simply keep a person good company. However, scientists beat, starved, and cut their poor animals until they get tiered or come upon what they call “satisfaction”. Sometimes they do these kinds of cruel things just to please themselves without thinking about the animals that have done no wrong or harmed the scientist in any way. We have made many animals meet our needs without us thinking not even once about the animals feelings or feeling one bit of sorrow towards them. Lets not forget about how the scientists use animals in their laboratories and make them suffer just to come up with some new fancy experiment that they wish to publish. Its absolutely obvious that the animals are getting hurt and maybe even traumatized.

Animal testing is hurting and injuring animals. Scientists cut open animals without using any anesthetics or other kinds of medicine that will help numb the pain. After an experiment with an animal has gone wrong, the scientist will not give the animals any treatment to help them get cured and will just abandon them to take care for them selfs. Its as if we have just ignored the fact that animals feel pain and let them get on with their lives knowing that the are seriously hurt and need from our help to get better. And to know that this has been going on for more than two thousand years is a tragedy!

Scientists could use other type of materials to test on instead of animals. If scientist choose not to do so, we may be endangering many species of animals during the next few years. Some cosmetic companies, such as L’oreal, have been making fake rubber-like skin structure called “Episkin” to test on. This Episkin is made up from skin cells called “Keratinocytes”. The Keratinocytes come from left over breast surgery. If we do something about this, for example, go on strike, more companies will start using Episkin and stop testing on animals.

Some people think that scientists should use animals to test on because its more safe for us humans to be able to buy products without worrying about getting sick or dying. However this is not true because of the new invention called Episkin. Episkin has the same reaction as normal skin. It may also be even more efficient than animal skin because Episkin is actually made up of human cells. We need to encourage more companies to stop using animals for their testing because we can all see that its destroying our planet and limiting our animals to freedom.

Its obvious that animals testing is hurting not only us but our poor animals, so we need to put an end to this! Animals need to feel safe in our environmen just like us. In order for them to feel safe we have to decline all products that have been tested on animals. You might be asking your self “ Well how am I going to be able to decline products is I don’t know if they have been tested on animals”. Its very east just read the labels on the back of a product you want to buy. If you do so, companies will stop testing on animals and test on other things. You will love the results you see!