Persuasive Essay On DonT Be Cruel - 764 Words

Lorraine Rudolph M. Williams English II 9/2017 Don’t Be Cruel New makeup products come out on a day-to-day basis, whether it be foundations, concealers, highlighters, and/or brushes. Adversely, there’s another side to makeup that isn’t all glitz and glamour. According to the Humane Society, behind these products, a grand total of fifty-two Guinea Pigs, four-hundred and sixteen mice, five-hundred and six rabbits, and two-thousand, five hundred and forty-two rats on average get used for makeup testing and must continue living with gruesome deformities and/or lose their lives because of it. Many popular makeup brands take this route to ‘ensure’ the safety of their customers and to avoid lawsuits. I believe that animal testing is cruel,†¦show more content†¦Usually, companies use squirrel, horse, or mink furs. Not only is the skinning of the animals invasive, but animal fur is porous which means that the brushes can breed bacteria that synthetic brush fibers cannot. Synthetic brush fibers ar e also proven to be safer for your skin and safer for the environment. At a financial standpoint, synthetic fiber brushes can save companies money because of their ability of being able to be created from recycled plastics; the brush fibers and the handle. There’s always two sides to any story and there will be supporters of animal testing. An argument that may arise is that animal testing has made contributions toward life-saving research since human bodies have similar structures and organ systems. Also, there technically is no alternative for testing on a full organ system. Ethically, researchers use animals to prevent the use of human subjects. These arguments have a small amount of justification but these reasons should not justify the killing and mistreatment of animals for a product. This mistreatment of animals, it seems, has no discretion. With the billions of makeup consumers, this aspect is very overlooked. There is an alternative for animal testing that seems to b e overlooked. This alternative is using reconstructed cell and tissue cultures. Also, computerized structures can be used with the application of existing data to predict the activity of a chemical. These man-made test ‘subjects’ are self-explainable in