According to Collins, "each year over 100 million animals-including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing"(1). ...
Tests are conducted on a wide range of chemicals and products, including drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, household cleaners, pesticides, foodstuffs, and packing materials to ensure their safety. The safety testing of chemicals and consumer products accounts for only about 10% to 20% of the use of animal...
Animal Cruelty I got a riddle for you guys. What was once cute and fluffy but became a bloody, rotten mess? You guys give up yet? The answer to this riddle is an animal that has undergone chemical testing. I know that that wasn't funny, but I needed some sort of attention grabber. Animals are ...
Throughout history, animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human advantages. Just recently, Europe banned cosmetic and pharmaceutical with ingredients that were being tested on animals. "Europe's idea is to put more pressure on other parts of the world...
Medicines, household products, food, and basically everything involved in the life of an average person has to under go a form of testing before it is legal to be placed on a shelf and if available to the public. The same tests are performed on every medical procedure that is introduced to surgeons....
One of the most sensitive aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectio...