Topic > Cosmetics tested on animals: is it necessary? - 541

Why should animals die just so humans can have cosmetics? It's understandable if you want to cover a scar on your face, but wearing makeup simply because you think you need it or because you feel like you can't live without it is ridiculous. Animals should not die because of our insecurities about how we look or how society judges us. If society sees someone who is not perfect Barbie or Ken, they judge us, so we wear makeup, it's not right for society to do that. Because of their judgment cosmetics are tested on animals and many of them are dying. Hundreds of thousands of animals currently die during cosmetic testing. Test animals die, in most cases, due to allergic reactions and scientists don't want to give them anything to stop the allergic reaction because it would interfere with their research, so they let them die. Other times the animal dies because the tests scare them and they go crazy and no one can calm them down so they have to put them down. Cosmetics tested on animals should be banned because they use exotic products...