I was at the gas station earlier today and while I was waiting for my car to be full I read a sticker on the gas pump. It said something like too much inhalation of gasoline fumes will cause cancer because we tested it on lab animals. REALLY?!?! Is that really a test that needs to happen? Common sense says that inhaling gas fumes is dangerous to your health so why would we put innocent animals to the test of that? Are these scientists doing these labs really that stupid? And who is stupid enough to sit there and inhale gas anyway?
Animals shouldn’t be tested on stupid things like that. It is easily understood that anything to do with gas or gas in the air will affect your health. You don’t need to test that on animals to figure that out.
There are more tests that are completely unnecessary as well. These include testing shampoo in eyes of animals to see if it irritates or animals getting their fur shaven off and get applied a thick amount of a substance to test for toxicity.
For tests like these we should be using human cells, organs, and artificial skin programmed to act like human skin. It’s a much better idea than putting poor helpless animals to their death. Even if animals survive the tests, they are usually euthanized afterwards. Even dogs and cats are specifically bred for tests.
These tests are unnecessary and cruel. We live in such a technologically advanced society now that we should be able to find other means to test products than putting innocent lives at risk.
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