What can we do instead of using animals to test on?
Which way would be the most humane, not cruel way to test cosmetics?
These are some ideas of ways we could test cosmetics and how we could change things in the future.
- Using blood from human volunteers to test for the presence of fever-causing contaminants in intravenous medicines can save hundreds of thousands of rabbits each year from traditional "pyrogen" tests.
- EpiSkin™, EpiDerm™ and SkinEthic—each composed of artificial human skin—can save thousands of rabbits each year from painful skin corrosion and irritation tests.
- The Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability Test and Isolated Chicken Eye Test use eyes from animals slaughtered for the meat industry instead of live rabbits to detect chemicals and products that are severely irritating to the eyes.
- The 3T3 Neutral Red Uptake Phototoxicity Test can replace the use of mice and other animals in the testing of medicines and other products for their potential to cause sunlight induced "photo-toxicity."
- The Reduced Local Lymph Node Assay for skin allergy testing makes it possible to reduce animal use by up to 75 percent compared with traditional guinea pig and mouse tests.
- When testing to determine chemical concentrations that are deadly to fish and other aquatic life, use of the Fish Threshold Method can reduce the numbers of fish used by at least 70 percent compared with standard test methods.
Which way do you think we should test?
Are there any other ideas? Leave them in the comments!
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I think testing on ourselves or on fake skin is definitely the most logic and practical way. I disagree with the idea of testing on DEAD animals eyes-we would still be testing on animals! If you get what I am saying. Products for humans should be tested on humans that's just a logical thing to do!!! Loving that you creating awareness, keep up the good work!!! X
ReplyDeleteI think testing on ourselves or on fake skin is definitely the most logic and practical way. I disagree with the idea of testing on DEAD animals eyes-we would still be testing on animals! If you get what I am saying. Products for humans should be tested on humans that's just a logical thing to do!!! Loving that you creating awareness, keep up the good work!!! X
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! Some people might think that reusing animals to test on after they had been killed is a little better than killing them for animal testing, but I still think the most logical way is to test on artificial skin or alternatively, on humans.I think if a human creates a product they should test it on themselves, if they test on animals it shows that they might put nasty chemicals in our products.For example, Lush ingredients aren't that harmful as most of them have natural ingredients in them, they test on themselves. Companies should be putting good ingredients in their products that they can trust.Please keep on raising awareness!
DeleteThank you! x