The People's Petition

[mstislavl]

I believe that the animals tested on should still be treated well, but I also appreciate that many human lives have been saved thanks to Animal testing.

http://www.thepeoplespetition.org.uk/signup/

Comments

Re: Animal testing...

[mstislavl]

thanks for your balanced opinion. as for cosmetics - these tests can hardly cause animal death and relatively harmless if you compare them with testing new drugs.

[farraige.livejournal.com]

after a new mascara, eye lifting cream or eyeliner are tested on a rabbit (rabbits are chosen because they lack tear ducts and can't wash the irritant away) their cornea is eroded and a blind animal is put down.

ditto for washing powders and facial cleansers

Dugs and cosmetics: let's straighten our priorities

[gerasirdis.livejournal.com]

Now this really puzzles me. All in all, drugs that haven't been tested properly could only kill tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, if it were a common disease. On the other hand, if something goes wrong in cosmetics department, number of victims could easily run into tens of millions or even more. So why are we willing to go an extra mile for few potential victims, and yet we are reluctant to take exactly the same precautionary steps to (possibly) save many more?