Animal Cruelty

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Term Paper Title	Animal Cruelty
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	6.36

Animal Cruelty
Animal testing has been going on since the late nineteenth century. Over the years, billions of animals have been killed from experiments, but the amount of animals tested on “has fallen 50% since 1968” (Davis 22). With that much of a decline, I can’t imagine how many animals were once used and for what purposes. Even with the 50% decline, “the number of animals sacrificed for medical and biomedical ends in the United States each year is unknown, but certainly exceeds 60 million and may possibly be as high as 100 million” (Kuker-Reines 1). That amount of animals sacrificed each year is horrible especially when a lot of the test turn out to be inaccurate. Of animals currently being used today, “about 85% of these are rats and mice, and less than 2% are cats, dogs and non-human primates” (National 18). While researchers do their jobs to find alternatives, one easy way anybody can help animals is start watching what they buy and make sure they aren’t indirectly supporting the cruelty to animals.
Many corporations test on animals, but probably the largest is Proctor & Gamble. People may think they aren’t contributing to the torture of animals, but Proctor & Gamble has over a hundred everyday products that were at one time tested on. Some of their main products consist of Old Spice, Secret and Sure deodorants. Some other products are Head and Shoulders, Ivory, Pantene, Pert, Vidal Sassoon, Always, Tampax, Tide, Febreze, Crest, Scope, Clearasil, Cover Girl, Noxzema and Oil of Olay. That may seem like a lot, but those are just some of the products that Proctor & Gamble test. “Testing cosmetics consist of placing rabbits in stocks that immobilize their heads and researchers dropping the substance into one eye, using the other as a control. The pain may be so great the rabbits break their backs trying to escape” (Regan 198). I bet that even after the animals break their backs, the researchers continue until they have the info they need without giving the animal anything for the pain. In other experiments, “the animals may be force fed products or have them rubbed or injected into their skin” (Regan 198). Forcing millions of animals to go through the trauma is definitely animal cruelty. In most cases, the animals will probably end up dead, but in some experiments the tests will run until the animal dies. Such a case is “determining the lethal dose of radiation used in cancer therapy” (National 19). No matter what the test is or h...

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