Hello fellow beauty lovers!
(Environmentalists, social activists, animal activists and more).
What exactly is animal testing and why was it created?
When chemists are producing all of these various beauty-product creations, they have to make sure that they can deem it as safe first by testing them. Before these tests existed, people around the world were using any ingredient that they could get their hands on, often related to or causing severe health and/or skin problems.
Throughout time, the explosion of cosmetic popularity across North America and Europe, evoked the age of cosmetic testing to begin. Especially with young girls getting into makeup, government officials from around the world began demanding they had insight to the creation process ensuring the wellbeing of the citizens.
Animal research is very expensive, considering they need to be housed, fed, cared for and trained by animal welfare technicians and veterinarians. However, because academic researchers are stuck competing for limited funds, and pharmaceutical companies are profit-seeking, they will prefer to go with the cheapest option available whenever possible. However, what they don't tell or share with us is the painfully cruel reality that millions of innocent animals have to endure for the sake of beauty.
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"Problems of extrapolation—applying information from animal research to humans—are inevitable when researchers use animal models to study human diseases. Species differences in anatomy, organ structure and function, toxin metabolism, chemical and drug absorption, and mechanisms of DNA repair—among myriad other differences between humans and other species—can give us inadequate or erroneous information when we attempt to apply animal data to human diseases and drug responses."Source: http://www.neavs.org/research/limitations
How is it effecting the economy or the environment?
Aside from the industry being inaccurate and cruel, millions of our tax dollars are spent on research every year so that companies that haven't enforced the ban of animal testing, can continue to do so for our beauty. It is unsafe, expensive, time-consuming, cruel, and unreliable.
"For example, the DakDak test (used to measure the efficacy of sunscreens in preventing skin damage) can provide data for five or six products at less than half the cost of testing one product in animals. The current “gold standard” for testing a chemical to determine if it is carcinogenic is the rodent bioassay, which takes up to five years from planning to evaluation and review, at a cost of up to more than $4 million per substance. In vitro screening allows companies to identify promising test compounds in a cost- and time-efficient manner before progressing to human trials." http://www.neavs.org/research/limitations
Now, more than ever is a very crucial and important time for our environment, health, and lifestyle choices. Every action has a re-action. It is a major and urgent challenge for the US and Canada to effectively rid of harsh pollutants caused by substances, products, or carcinogens from an economic standpoint. Giving precedence to animal testing because it's cheaper oppose to the available technology we have proves a narrow-mindedness way of scientific progress.
If we all support local businesses that we believe in, then we can enrich our communities and economies while effectively making a positive difference in the world and environment. Read more about some of the benefits of support a local business oppose to a large chain Here!
Besides the money aspect, what are some other reasons for animal testing?
If we just chose NOT to incorporate a variety of toxic and unsafe chemicals, preservatives, or substances into our cosmetics and skincare regimens, then what would be the point of having to "test" these ingredients on their compatibility of the human body in the first place?When we break it down, it is simply chemistry. How our skin works is just the same as how the rest of our body works. How we choose to treat it,will display that like a book.
Where we can go from here...
Why test products at all? I mean why do we need these ingredients in our makeup, skincare and cosmetics in the first place? Why not only use ingredients that we recognize, can pronounce and are 100% vegan, organic, nontoxic, gluten-free, and fair-trade?
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"Those who argue that painful experimentation on animals should be halted, or at least curtailed, maintain that pain is an intrinsic evil, and any action that causes pain to another creature is simply not morally permissible. Pointing to the words of the nineteenth-century utilitarian, Jeremy Bentham, animal welfare advocates claim that the morally relevant question about animals is not "Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer ?" And, animals do in fact suffer, and do in fact feel pain. The researcher who forces rats to choose between electric shocks and starvation to see if they develop ulcers does so because he or she knows that rats have nervous systems much like humans and feel the pain of shocks in a similar way. Pain is an intrinsic evil whether it is experienced by a child, an adult, or an animal. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal.
Furthermore, many argue, while the lives of animals may be deserving of some respect, the value we place on their lives does not count as much as the value we place on human lives. Human beings are creatures that have capacities and sensibilities that are much more highly developed than that of animals. Because humans are more highly developed, their welfare always counts for more than that of animals. If we had to choose between saving a drowning baby and saving a drowning rat, we would surely save the baby. Moreover, if we move to consider animals as our moral equals, where do we draw the line? Technically, any living thing that is not a plant is an animal. Are oysters, viruses, and bacteria also to be the objects of our moral concern? While we may have a duty to not cause animals needless suffering, when we are faced with a choice between the welfare of humans and the welfare of animals, it is with humans that our moral obligation lies."
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