Did you know that many
shampoos, cosmetics, and cleaning products ext. Are tested on animals regularly?
Tons of personal care products go through different procedures even before the
item has is put on the shelf. Animals being tested for pharmaceuticals are even
more dangerous. Animals are being intentionally given a disease to see how they
react to it (positively or negatively) or whether or not if the drug has
serious side effects. The animals being tested can end up having tumors or
other such diseases .The scientist examine them before sometimes them
intentionally killing them.
On an understanding
level ethics seems to dictate that humans want to use harsh chemicals for the
use of cosmetics, and other house hold products used on a daily basics.
Scientists and pharmaceuticals should be able to conduct human test subjects
that undergo the safety tests. What’s the difference to go through the same
test the laboratory animals have done, if the humans have already done but,
just
After the animals have already
gone through it.
Fairness and
alternatives
Many years ago the
society had an outrage over exposes, about abusing animals being used for
experimental use only. Many Companies banned the use of testing animals for
their products. Did that just stop selling the products? No. they instead they
came up with non- harmful ways to test their products for example, eye
irritation a newly discovered medicine could now be tested on a on a
donated human retina.
Many products still test
on animals. Some activists are all agonist and other are okay with the three r
rules
1.
Replace the use of
animals in scientific procedures with non-animal alternatives whenever
possible;
2.
Reduce the number of
animals used in any animal-testing procedure;
3.
Refine procedures so
that animals experience less pain, suffering, or discomfort.
How far should they go?
At this point in time
there is nothing dangerous found in shampoos, detergents , and other house
hold. When Companies discover something new within any of those areas ,
if their might be danger in the product .The manufacture should use scientifically
sound non-animal testing products or just a safer ingredient all together
.
What about new drugs? Pesticides present another huge question
requiring animal testing. When setting a safety limit for humane exposure for
as a particular compound or element F.D.A requires extra safety factors
above even the level shown to be extremely hazardous for lab animals.
Pesticide manufactures
have proposed testing their chemicals on humans rather than animals to
determine a “more precise” levels of safer exposed hoping that human levels would give them better
results . http://www.grinningplanet.com/2004/10-12/cosmetics-animal-testing-article.htm
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