You can be the voice for future animals by NOT buying from companies that test on animals. Participating in this action will help keep future animals out of testing labs. Buying from companies that are cruelty-free will show companies who still test on animals that we are calling for change. We will not buy from companies that test on animals.
"When considering the ethical justifiability of animal experiments, we should ask if it is ethically acceptable to deprive humans of resources, opportunity, hope, and even their lives by seeking answers in what may be the wrong place"(Akhatr, 2015). This is what is being asked and done to animals in testing labs. Animals used as testing subjects are confined to a life of needles and experimentation only to result in a 96% failure rate. According to the Food and Drug Administration 96% of animal tests fail to proceed the market. Initially this number was set at 92% but over the last few years this number increased.
"Evidence demonstrates that critically important physiological and genetic differences between humans and other animals can invalidate the use of animals to study human diseases, treatments, pharmaceuticals, and the like"(Akhatr, 2015). Animal testing simply does not work. Humans and animals differ in many aspects. Humans eat, drink and do as they please in an environment nowhere near similar to the testing labs where animals are confined as testing subjects. Even if the animals in testing labs ate, drank, and did everything a human does genetically we are not very alike. One of the most common testing subjects in laboratories are mice. Mice and humans are said to be similar but "a crucial protein that controls blood sugar in humans is missing in mice"(Akhatr, 2015).
Stop buying from companies that test on animals. Doing so will allow you to be the voice for future animals who may be deemed to a life in testing labs. These animals cannot speak for themselves and it is up to you and I, and every other consumer of products to BE THEIR VOICE!
References
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). Companies that do test on animals. https://crueltyfree.peta.org/companies-do-test/?alpha=A
People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals. (2022). Companies that do not test on animals. https://crueltyfree.peta.org/companies-dont-test/
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People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals. (2022). Companies that do not test on animals. https://crueltyfree.peta.org/companies-dont-test/
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