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Valeria Reyes

English 1302-213

Judith McCann

8 March 2022

Essay 2- Draft 2 (Animal Testing on Cosmetics)

It is sad how the society in this world does not care for the animals. In fact, many animals

are used for cruel things such as scientific experiments that could risk their lives. One debatable

topic researchers have different opinions and beliefs is on whether animal testing on cosmetics is

harmful or beneficial. Some think that there are more ways on how they could test cosmetics

without hurting animals. As a matter of fact, many researchers think that testing on animals is

morally incorrect, it can be harmful for the animal’s health, and avoiding animal testing on

cosmetics helps improve marketing in one way or another. Other researchers think that animal

testing is benefical because it can help the human health with out risking it, they try to take care

of animals without harming them, and sometimes it could be beneficial to the animals. This

research analysis presents the existing research that reports both the benefits of animal testing,

such as helping the human health without risk, and the detriments, such as the negative effects on

the animal’s health, ;as well as the increase in sales for brands that sell cosmetics that are not

animal-tested.

Animal Testing on Cosmetics affect animal’s health.

To begin with, Many scientist believe that animal testing could be cruel. As a matter of

fact, animal testing on cosmetics has happened over years. According to the charts from the

article “Effect of Various Microorganisms Found in Cosmetics On the Normal and Injured Eye

of The Rabbit” it mentions how rabbits have been used for many experiments since 1973
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(Chowchuvech et al. 1006). (Quick Question I need to ask : if the article’s title is all caps do I put

it like that?) In other words, it is astonishing how back then people did not care if animals were

put at risk. As mentioned in the article’s diagram, rabbits were put in different types of

experiments that would risk their lives and they did not have any precautions with them

(Chowchuvech et al. 1007). It is sad how back then scientists would not care for those rabbits

that about 90% of them where contaminated (Chowchuvech et al. 1007). (Need to add more

information on why it is inhumane.)

Cosmetics increase in sales.

According to the article “Not tested on animals' ': How consumers react to cruelty free

cosmetics proposed by manufactures and retailers? Stated that many people prefer to buy

products that mention that it is “cruelty-free” and that it is not tested on animals (Grappe et al. 2).

This means that many consumers prefer to buy products that do not harm any animals. As a

matter of fact, the consumers that prefer buying products that are not animal tested are mostly

eco-friendly and try to take care of the animals (Grappe et al. 5).These people also try to support

animal rights and have a positive attitude towards products that are not animal tested. Also

consumers try to buy cosmetics that are not tested on animals because they have different beliefs

and they think it is morally incorrect. As a matter of fact, some people try to engage in the rights

for animals by trying to fight animal testing, this makes constumers look very responsible and

aware of the things they are buying. According to the article about 63.2% of the consumers

decide to buy cosmetics that are not tested on animals. This means that there is a lot of people

that are against animal testing and prefer to buy products that are not animal tested.

In addition, According to the article about 84% of the people in the United States pay

more attention to better living conditions for animals ( Grappe et al. 1). According to one of the
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articles I read, it mentioned that the United States also decided to ban cosmetic testing on

animals. Furthermore, I read an article that in many countries there might be some public

policies brands and consumers have to follow. In fact, in the year 2013 the European Union

decided to banned animal testing on cosmetics. Another thing that was banned in the European

Union was the use of “claims and logos that referred to the absence of thereof” (Grappe et al. 1).

According to the Article some people might be socially influenced by others when they buy

products.

Helps out humans’ health

Moreover, Animal testing on cosmentics can help human beings by one way or another.

A great example of this can be that it could help out improve the humans’ health without putting

them at risk. For instance, sometimes scientists have to test certain products on animals just to

make sure it would not affect humans. According to one of the Articles I read, it mentions how

scientists first decide to test a certain chemical to animals rather than to humans to see the

reaction of the animals. (cite the article) ( I need to mention the chemical’s name)

Works Cited
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normal and injured eye of the rabbit.” American Journal of Ophthalmology. Vol. 75, no.6,

1973. pp.1004-1009. https://zh.booksc.eu/book/29667084/9501a4

Grappe, Cindy et al. “Not tested on animals: How consumers react to cruelty- free cosmetics

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