when did animal tesring start?

Question

animal testing

Answer 1

It started in the early 20th century when chemicals were being used for cosmetics that caused blindness and skin burns. With the help of "muck-raking "(scandal-digging) journalists the Federal Government was shamed into requiring testing of cosmetics on animals before they could be sold for use on people. By the end of that century the welfare of people was demoted to a lower importance and not-being-tested became a selling point.

Answer 2

Animal testing started as soon as cave men noticed that when an animal ate a certain type of food it didn't die and when feed something that had poison in it like berries it wouldn't eat that and so men who didn't eat it wouldn't die either.

As long as we have made products we have tested it on animals before humans, in most cases. Animal testing grew to its heights in the 20th century when we had the most products that needed to be tested. It wasn't until the invention of modern chemistry that we created complex things like modern face powder or lipstick. Until then we used berries, white ash, charcoal and other naturally occurring things.

When we discovered electricity and started really using it we found out that the brain used it and we started reading it. Again we knew of this a long time ago, but we didn’t start to use it until the 20th century when we started to implant electrodes into the brains of chimps and rats.

The movement to STOP animal testing was first done by PETA. There may have been individual actions as far back as the 1970s, but no group formed until PETA. It is said that the entire environmental movement and its offshoots like PETA and the green movement wasn’t started until the picture of the Earth made by Apollo 8 was seen world wide. For the first time people realized that the earth was all connected. Until then it was an abstract image on a globe, but that picture proved the Earth was one and everything we did on it had effects and consequences. Until that point people didn’t cared about the moral implications of things like animal testing. Strip mining was common and environmental disasters like Love Canal were just the normal way of doing business.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETA
“Founded in 1980, PETA first came to public attention in 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case. Alex Pacheco (PETA co-founder with Ingrid Newkirk), conducted an undercover investigation inside a primate research laboratory at the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.”

Answer 3

Hundreds if not thousands of years ago.