10 sources cited length: 1935 words 5.5 double spaced pages rating: red free cruelty involved in animal testing hobbes, the cat, has been under experimentation for most of his life. This is probably the last time that he will ever have to be experimented on again. The makers of herbal essences are about to force shampoo down his throat to see what happens to its organs. Even if the cat lives through the process, they are going to have to kill it to see which organs it could have damaged. If this was an actual human going through this deadly experiment, people would be in shock.

Instead, scientists are testing whether or not swallowing shampoo would affect a cat. Animal testing started a numerous years ago to help provide humans with information. The process of animal testing is one of the most disturbing experiments ever done. Many cosmetics and personal care products are made every year and are put into the market after being tested on animals. These products have gone through a long and complex testing process that leaves millions of animals mutilated, burned, poisoned and gassed in outmoded and unnecessary tests. From these different experiments, animals are often left with different diseases like syphilis, herpes, or aids animal rights: animal testing .

Manufacturers of these different products say that they are performing these tests to assure our safety for these products. They want to make sure that humans are not in any amount of danger animals in product testing . The first point why animal testing is a unethical process is because of some of the brutal things that happen in the process.

There are certain types of animals they use for certain types of experimentation. Some well known animals that they use for testing are: cats, dogs, mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, sheep, llamas, cattle, owls, deer, monkeys and other primates. They use white albino rabbits because of their sensitive eyes and also because the formation of their tear ducts stops tears from draining away all of the foreign substance animal rights: test. In this process, scientists rub shampoo, soap, toothpaste, oven cleaner, lipstick, or lawn products into their gorgeous, red eyes. This test can last up to eighteen days with the poor animals eyelids held open with a clip.

Many of the rabbits end up breaking their necks trying to escape from the horrifying pain. First of all, it is pointless to keep the product in their eyes for that long of a period. There is no way that even a child would have something like that in his/her eye for very long. The second reason this is unnecessary to do to a rabbit is that the eye tissue of a rabbit is completely different from humans.

Why do companies even agree with animal experimentation? some companies, like clairol, demand that they do not use animal testing on their shampoo product, herbal essences. Even though they have cut down on animal testing, they have not eliminated the complete line of cosmetics and other products of animal experimentation consumer companies. There are also some companies, like mother's bath products, that do test on animals.