... safety, as consumers, we do not have the right to use animals in this type of manner, but we should reduce the amount of tests by replacing many with alternatives. Although this seems wrong, it is the ultimate necessity for human safety in cosmetic use. Animals have been ... may have prevented several lawsuits that may have occurred in the future. However the cosmetic manufacturers are not required by the FDA to conduct safety tests for cosmetics. Though the testing is important for safety, the amount of animals that are killed each year is cruel. Using animals with a ... They call thi...

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... of animals will have had their eyes, skin or gastrointestinal systems unnecessarily burned or destroyed (Sequoia, 27). Two of the most famous animal tests are the Draize, or eye irritancy test and the LD50, Lethal Dose 50. The Draize test is performed almost exclusively on albino rabbits, such ... of motor function, seizures, vomiting, paralysis and bleeding from every open orifice in the body. Any animals who somehow manage to survive these particular tests are subsequently destroyed (Sequoia, 29). There is also a Lethal Dose 100 test that determines the amount of a test substance requ...

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... tails/animaltestingfacts.html) Some examples of things that were tested on animals and hurt people are:methoxyflurance,people lost their livers because the animal tests did not show that,antidepressant zelmid was tested on rats and dogs and gave them no trouble but caused neurological problems in people and opren ... , a caugh medicine tested on monkeys killed 61 people and caused reactions that were severe in thousands of other people. Drugs that pass animal tests end up killings or harming people about 61% of the time. "These experiments do not save humans lives or improve them in any w...

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... during the test it will die soon after,or wont be properly treated and die and they "are "recycled" into other type of product tests" Things such as cosmetics,household products,medicines,and sometimes even foods are tested on these animals. I think it should beillegal, it is illegal ... _n_tails/animaltestingfacts.html) Some examples of things that were tested on animals and hurt people are:methoxyflurance,people lost their livers because the animal tests did not show that,antidepressant zelmid was tested on rats and dogs and gave them no trouble but caused neurological problems in peopl...

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... that animals are experiencing horrifying treatment is that they are being injected with various diseases. For example, many experiments are formed to replicate a disease carried by humans. Therefore, these tests consist of injecting a disease into the animal, letting it develop and form, and then trying to treat the condition with new experimental drugs and procedures. Cancer research is mostly ... and monkeys was only proven to be harmful to humans. As a result, at least five humans died. Dr. Jay Hoofnagele stated, "Human toxicity is not predicted by animal tests." (Thacher, Non-Animal...

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... the past two centuries. In my opinion, it is morally inhumane to torture our animals. Every year, millions of animals suffer and die in painful tests to determine the safety of cosmetics. Substances such as eye shadow and soap are tested on rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, dogs, and other animals. ... of this, despite the fact that the test results don't help prevent or treat human illness or injury. Some of the tests used on animals are eye irritancy tests, acute toxicity tests, and skin irritancy tests. For centuries, animals have been used in these types of research. (1) A restrained dog wa...

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... cleaner in order to determine the toxicity. This causes their internal organs to rupture causing convulsions, massive bleeding, and eventual death. Both of these tests are cruel because they are very painful for the animals. Next, experts say animal testing is inaccurate and unnecessary. They say the Draize test ... is inaccurate because rabbits" cornea is thinner and more sensitive than a human's eye. Consequently, results of these tests cannot accurately be compare to humans. Toxicity tests are inaccurate because many animals actually die from the shear volume of the dosage they are gi...

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... such as mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, cats, dogs, primates, sheep, cows, and pigs are subjected to the effects of Vivisection. The tests are conducted by government agencies, corporations, hospitals, the military, and chemical companies. The single largest financier and advocate of vivisection would have to be The ... burned, starved, irradiated, shocked, mutilated, kept in isolation, poisoned, drugged, electrocuted, and the list goes on and on"(www.aavs.org/Docs/). The tests range from a monkey's eyes being sewn shut for long periods of times, to a dog's eyes getting burned by rad...

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... therefore, they should not experiment on non-human animals. There must be more than 100 millions of animals that have been through all these kinds of harmful tests as well as being stuck in a cage inside a laboratory. Another good reason about animal testing is that it wastes our valued resources. Testing on animals ... waste of time and the gathering of information is not efficient. The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Testing on animals is not an efficient way for human medication because it is not guarantee that ...

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... ) are dying this way in excruciating pain". This is well backed up by a Mr Hamilton stating, "Most of these tests are unnecessary". This also shows us that the tests are carried out with little, if any success. This also shows us that these tests are not morally justifiable, and are barbaric and cruel. A Mr Bill Dyer quotes "the results have never been published ... explain, "There are numerous ways to explore the causes and cures for human illness without resorting to primitive and fruitless animal experiments ". They go on to say "They include laboratory tests using human tissues and g...

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... holes cut into them to place pacemakers onto their heart in order to induce irregular heartbeats. The dogs were then killed and dissected." There are minimal rules to these tests. No experiment, no matter how brutal or painful, is prohibited, and on top of all of it, no pain killers are required. The reason these despicable acts are allowed is ... not mean they do not feel it. The article, "Animal Testing," goes deeper and stirs more arguments by talking about the failed tests on animals. More specifically he discusses on how drugs that pass animal tests are not necessarily safe for hum...

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... water on laboratory animals for over twenty years and killed hundreds of thousands of animals only to prove what was already known. Many scientists prefer animal tests as opposed to non-animal tests even though "non-animal tests are often faster, cheaper, and their results are less subject to manipulation [ ]"(Sandler 46). The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council ... (NRDC) do not endorse non-animal testing because they cannot scientifically "validate" their relevance to human beings. Unless they can prove that non-animal tests are actually proving t...

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... and then destroyed. Each year about five million Mice, rats, dogs, cats, monkeys, horses, cows and pigs are used for experimentations. Animals are subjected die in lethal dose tests performed in the United States. During a lethal dose test, the experimental substance is forced into the animals throats, or is pumped into their stomachs by a tube, sometimes causing death ... effects, not revealed in animal studies. More than one hundred thousand people have been hospitalized and later died from toxic reactions to medications that were not predicted by animal tests. Many patients who were a...

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... testing is necessary to ensure the safety of all people. The truth is, every year "more than 14 million dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, monkeys, and other animals suffer in products tests that lead to blindness, severe burns, and eventual death." (Newkirk p. 10) Out of all of the companies which subject their products to animal testing, Procter & Gamble Inc. is the largest ... backs in a desperate struggle to get away. Those who survive are used again ... until they are finally killed. P&G's innocent victims include rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and ferrets. Even though these tests are not...

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... for her, his big brown eyes just stares into the darkness. Animal testing is a cruel process in which scientists expose animals to painful, cruel the unnecessary tests often without the use of pain killers. Animal tests are done in order to help a company find out the possible harmful effect of their products on humans. Take for example the Draize test. Rabbits are ... ' of science. Substances that we use every day such as eye shadow, soap, furniture polish , may be tested on rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, cats and many other animals These tests are mainly used to test the degree of h...

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... , which gave the federal Food and Drug Administration the power to prohibit the sale of harmful cosmetics (Hyde 15-17). After the passage of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, tests were developed to evaluate the safety of cosmetics. Rabbits were chosen for the testing of these products. Every year, 100,000 rabbits were restrained while their eyes were squirted with ... , new methods of testing for skin and eye safety have been introduced. Today, some alternatives to the Draize test are in limited use and a number of new tests are being developed. Researchers have developed tests that measu...

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... this money for human clinical and epidemiological studies, prevention programs, public health awareness and vitro tests. My solution is to use the new technology that has been developed. Vitro tests are conducted on live human cells that are cultured in petri dishes or test tubes. With these tests, scientist can find possible effects of a chemical on the human body with out the testing ... ...

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... out under anesthesia. The great majority of experiments involve no operative procedure more severe than a simple inoculation or the taking of a blood sample. What sort of animals are used in tests? Rats and mice make up the vast majority of all animals which take part in the experiments. Because they breed so quickly it soon becomes clear if a drug is likely ... , hamsters, chimpanzees, baboons, snakes, bats, guinea pigs, dolphins, gorillas, lemurs and seals. Though the first three types of animals - rats, mice and pigeons. Constitute for 94% of the studies and tests. Guidelines for trea...

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... he is about 2 years old. When I play with him or when I take him out for a run, actually he takes me; I can't help but wonder how someone could possibly do harmful tests on innocent animals like Gordon. Every year, millions of animals undergo painful suffering or death as a result of scientific research into the effects of drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other ... that every new drug that is produced or every new operating procedure that is discovered should be tested on animals. Another concern for this group is that many of the tests are ineffective and are non-essential. Rabbits...

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... for find cures for all types of cancers and other death threatening sicknesses. That's why animal experimentation most continue no one knows how many cures could be found through these tests. So if animal testing was ended uncountable lives will be lost because a lack of ambition to push forward with research. A weak point in the idea of animal testing is how ... ...

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... we don't get to use them. Instead, we continue to use these unreliable and cruel sources. The same can be said about medical research. Scientists continue perform inaccurate and outdated tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals. So why couldn't we, in the first place, spend the time and the money on trying to improve our environment instead of ... ...

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... testing. B. Animal-rights groups oppose all scientific testing on animals on the grounds that it is unethical, while AIDS activists have fought for more AIDS research, including research involving animal tests and this has caused a rift between supporters of both issues. 1. The most recent chapter in the ongoing controversy began in December 1995, when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ... ...

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