Would you like to be the voice for someone who cannot speak?

Every second one animal dies in a United States laboratory (Animal Matters, 2022). Humans use these animals as testing subjects for cosmetic products. As a result these animals suffer harmful and painful reactions that have no benefit to anyone. This blog is dedicated to helping concerned individuals find cruelty-free alternatives so that you can BE THEIR VOICE. 

Animal testing is cruel and highly unnecessary since most of the testing does not pass human trials. In fact, “in 2004, the FDA estimated that 92 percent of drugs that pass preclinical tests, including “pivotal” animal tests, fail to proceed to the market” (Akhtar, 2015). This is because humans and animals differ in many ways, it seems as though the two only share the same corresponding feelings: pain and suffrage. 

“More than 100 million animals suffer and die in the U.S. every year in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests” (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2022). Animals feel just as us humans do. They feel the aching pains of the testing side effects and yet millions of animals are put through it time after time. If humans valued an animal’s life just as they value a human life this blog would not be needed. 

The day these animals verbally agree to be abused and used for testing is the day we can proceed to do so, but that will not happen. These animals need people to speak for them since they cannot do so themselves. These animals need someone to say no for them. We need to begin our solution with our goal in mind and that is to help these animals by choosing to be their voice. 

Be the change and switch to cruelty-free products. Cruelty-free “means that the products, and the ingredients that were used in the product, were not tested on animals at any stage during their development” (Sustainable Jungle, 2022). Some cruelty-free brands to consider are: Covergirl, Herbivore, E.L.F, Glossier, & Wet N Wild.

 

References

Animal Matters. (2022). Facts laboratory animals. https://www.animalmatters.org/facts/laboratory/

Akhtar A. (2015). The flaws and human harms of animal experimentation. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees, 24(4), 407–419. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180115000079 

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. (2022). Animal testing facts and alternatives. https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing-101/ 

 

Sustainable Jungle. (2022). Cruelty Free Vs Vegan: What’s The Difference? https://www.sustainablejungle.com/featured/cruelty-free-vs-vegan/

 Image Sources

Moore, S. (2021, February 25). The ethics of animal models in preclinical testing. https://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/The-Ethics-of-Animal-Models-in-Preclinical-Testing.aspx 

Sustainable Jungle. (2022). Cruelty Free Vs Vegan: What’s The Difference? https://www.sustainablejungle.com/featured/cruelty-free-vs-vegan/