Do you think it is acceptable to test cosmetics on animals?

Question

How do you feel about the use of animals for medical research?

Do you think people should buy and wear fur coats? Some people think that people shouldn't wear animal furs. Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Answer 1

I think it is interesting that many of the same people who protest the wearing of fur, eating meat, or using animals in medical testing are the same people who endorse abortion and using human fetuses for stem cell research. There is something very disturbing about that to me. I think HUMAN life is precious. I think that we should not be cruel to animals, but we have every right to harvest them. People who are blindly against hunting have no real understanding of the suffering of animals when their population grows too large. Take for instance the whitetail deer. Left unharvested their numbers grow very quickly. Soon there are too many of them to be supported by the available land. They begin to move into more urban areas where they are hit by cars causing not only their own deaths, but also endangering human life. They also die slow and horrible deaths from starvation and disease. Far better for them that they be harvested by a skilled hunter. As far as medical research goes, I say if needed to protect human life then it should be done. If someone REALLY wants to protest it they should find out what medicines have been developed using animal research and refuse to use any of them, no matter how sick they get even if it causes them to lose their life. Anything short of that is simply lip service with to a cause with no real commitment. As for wearing fur and animal skins, I say if you like it go for it. My family does not wear fur, but I have leather shoes, belts, coats and so forth. I think sometimes leather clothing is called for and nothing else will do, if you know what I mean. lol If you don't think it is ok to use animals I suggest you read the Bible.

Answer 2

There are alternatives for all of the things you listed and because of this there is no need to torture animals any longer. I think some researchers get a thrill by doing experiments on animals that can't defend themselves. Why else would they do it? It's sick really. We know what happens when a baby monkey is taken away from its mother and then exposed to horrible situations.....so why does it still happen????? Rabbits don't have the same eyes as humans, so why are cosmetics and other chemicals constantly dumped in them? So people can watch the rabbit break it's own back writhing in pain? I tell ya....the more I learn about the horrors animals go through the more sick I get. I am ill when I think that are people out there that still feel it is necessary to make an animal go through hell so that we can look nice. Please support alternative research techniques.

Answer 3

For some critical tests using other animal is unavoidable.
Eating animals are also unavoidable.
We can not live or survive without killing others.
If we are sympathetic to all this animals then why we are against virus and bacterias - they also should have their own right.

However I do not support wearing fur coat or leather jacket for luxury or testing cosmetics on animal. Testing of cancer medicine and a fave cream should be looked into differently.

Answer 4

Well... Bugs Bunny looks pretty good in red lipstick and a wig!!!


ok.. hmmm.. if you just sell cosmetics without testing them.. people get hurt.. causing lawsuits.. which raises the price of cosmetics...

if you test cosmetics on "paid volunteers" then you have to pay them a lot to take the risks.. and the price of cosmetics goes up...

if you test the new cosmetics on prisoners... then people complain about maltreatment of prisoners.. and file lawsuits on their behalf.. and the price of cosmetics goes up...

But, if you test your cosmetics on cute little white mice raised by teenage boys to raise money for college... then some animal rights activists file lawsuits and the price of cosmetics goes up...

I think they are animals, better to take the risk of hurting them than hurting a person... some animals are better than others but a variety need to be used.. like pigs, mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, etc... these animals are raised for this purpose... or stolen from thier owners who let them stray into the streets...

We don't have fur.. animals do.. so if we kill them and take their fur.. we stay warmer...

however... I think that before someone wears a fur coat, they should go hunting for the animal that it is made from (not necessarily kill one though)... and then go see how the animals are raised.. the kinds of conditions these animals endure before they are slaughtered for a coat, gloves, boots, etc... they should also be aware of how many animals it took to make thier coat.. did it take 3? did it take 40? .. or did it take 100? (takes a LOT of white mice to make a good full length fur coat!!)

better yet... go shear a sheep.. card the wool.. spin it into yarn.. and knit your own wool coat.. you'll enjoy it a lot more!

oh.. wait.. hmmm.. I live in Texas.. uhmmm.. what is a coat?

Answer 5

I think that this opinion based question is eligible to a lot of answers, so I am giving my own opinion on this very interesting issue.

It is acceptable that animals are used for medical testing when there are not available any alternative research techniques. For example there are biological tissues as a substitute for the skin tests and you maybe have seen that in certain cosmetics is written: it has not been tested to animals.They mean that their cosmetics have been tested in synthetic biological tissues.
This is a link showing what is valid in the EU regarding the test of cosmetics in animals.
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/cosmetics/html/cosm_animal_test.htm
But it is not always possible to avoid the use of animals in drug testing.
The question is on the number of animals used in every experiment (we have to minimize the number)and how they are handled.
There are specific directives in the European Union (and I suppose that exist also in the US)that are regulating this procedure.

Wear fur coats to protect ourselves from cold is one thing - if we are living in Siberia or in Alaska, for example - and it is accepted and wear them for luxury, is something different.
Shoes and huts are mostly from beef and other animals that are used for human's food, so humans are not going hunting to find the leather for some absolutely indispensable things, like his shoes. They are taking it from the home animals that he is feeding for his food. This is also acceptable for me, depends only on the living conditions of the animal and the transport conditions while they bringing it to the specific place to kill.

I wonder that some people believes that wild life depends on hunting to maintain the equilibrium. Wild life has it's own rules that are maintaining the equilibrium. The extinction of certain species alters this equilibrium.

There is also another aspect of animals abuse, that of transformation of the animal into "a spy".
The following link is a Q asked here some time ago, showing this kind of experiments on sharks.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Am_VjdijSl.vRqMfxBXHzmbsy6IX?qid=1006030501599

katerina

Answer 6

I don't agree with animal testing or the wearing of furs or anything. I think all animals have a right to life, just like humans do.

Don't worry, I am not a member of PETA or anything. I just think animal deserve respect too.

Answer 7

I really don't give a dang, we use animals like bunnies and rats and they multiply like there's no tommorow. And would you rather test cosmetics on humans or have human skin coats? Save the rat or the person, what would you choose?

My friend's a diabetic and I have another one with lucimea had they not tested certaint drugs on dogs and rabbits both would be dead right now.

Answer 8

Yes I think its acceptable that animals are used for medical testing. I raither they were not but as of yet there is no other method that can act as a biological active system.


The others I would disagure with but each is to there own.

Answer 9

i like to wear fur coats while they're still living.

also, clubbing baby seals

Answer 10

no but on whom it should be tested before use
on you or on some other person
or give that products without testing

no because we can use a substitute for it.