Animal testing should be bannedWhen picking out your mascara or eyeliner, do you even stop to see what kind of makeup you are using? You could be supporting animal cruelty and not even know it. Today many makeup products, such as mascara, are being tested on animals. Helpless and defenseless animals are being performed on for different types of experiments all around the world. Most of the things being performed in these labs you could never imagine one human being doing to another. I believe that animal testing should be banned because it is cruel, not very reliable, inaccurate, and is proved to be unnecessary.

Animal testing is arrogant and incredibly cruel. Like us, animals can feel pain and fear, but also excitement and satisfaction. Close contact with animals shows that they look forward to some extents, and can clearly get a lot of enjoyment from their lives, be it from basking in the sun, exercising, eating favorite food, or interacting with others, as in playing and mutual grooming. Certainly animals don't have the same abilities as humans. They can't talk, write books or drive cars, but neither can some humans. We don't ask how intelligent a person is before we decide whether to eat
. . . To make a long story short, animal experiments are futile.

Animals are typically tested using methods and doses that are at odds with real-life conditions. Animals have the right to be treated as being of value, and should not be experimented on, no matter the gain for humans. According to Don Barnes, director of education for the National Antivivisection Society, "it is simply assumed that mammalian similarities are sufficient to counteract species differences, even in the fact of significant evidence to the contrary. More types of medicine and cosmetics are being produced than is necessary.

Medication and treatments that have been tested on animals do not guarantee a safe use for humans. Animal experimentation is based on the idea that animals can be used as "models" for humans. Some of these animals are subjected to pain in tests of skin or eye irritancy; others are killed while establishing the lethal dose of chemical products. The suggestion that a drug tested on animals would be safe for people has been proved scientifically untrue.

Use of animals clearly violates animals’ right to live without suffering pain or emotional distress. Companies can also formulate products using ingredients already determined to be safe by the FDA. Every year, the US vivisection industries spend over $18 billion on animal experiments.