In these days, most products surrounding us like cosmetics, medicines or cleaning products were made based on the data and experiments of a great number of animal testings. The necessity of animal testing, however, is called into question now. For one reason, there is a fact that not all of the tests can be adopted or accurate for human experiments. It is said that more than 115 tests are conducted per year but only 43% of them are accurate for human experiments. Moreover, we need to sacrifice many animals for getting data, so some people are concerning and proposing protections and charity for animals. From these points, governments in some countries started to stop animal testing. In EU and several Asian countries, they banned and change the laws related to animal testing in cosmetic developments.
To solve this problem, we should find alternatives for animal testing. Now, it is said that computer testing based on massive databases or experiments using human cells may be effective, but the development of vaccines of COVID-19 was produced using the data of animal testing. Thus, it is also true that animal testing is necessary for us in the future too even if another way is possible for us to do that. On the other hand, I think we can not treat animal subjects’ lives as much as human or pets’ life ( like dogs or cats etc.) I’m sure and acknowledge the necessity of animal testings, but they can’t speak their pain like humans. Of course we can fail and get wrong in experiments particularly in medical field, but it can not be the reason for sacrificing animal’s lives. This is the biggest and most seductive points of this theme, I think.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). (n.d.). *Panic, terror, and near drowning: The forced swim test* [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/nNKRgwHJumM
What If. (n.d.). *What if we stopped animal testing?* [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Gqi6_mOTiBQ
To completely stop the use of animals for medical experiments seems to be challenging because medical breakthroughs have often relied on them. But, as you point out, the testing of cosmetics (or the ingredients used in cosmetics) has been found to be unnecessary. Doing away with that sort of animal testing can reduce a lot of animal (especially rabbit) suffering.
返信削除Many cosmetic brands have shown that it's absolutely possible to stop testing their products on animals. You can see a poster showing many of them here: https://cruelty-cutter.org/cruelty-free/ .
I thought that your blog was very interesting. I agree to treating mice like their human beings even though we differ in many ways.
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