Animal Testing

I think its stupid and disturbing.

But the question is, what else would we test on? Humans? Would we risk a humans life over something like a dog or cat? I don't think our society will ever do that.

lol yeah, i know. i just think that they should be able to come up with a way with testing things without using a living being. I'm sure there's a way but they rather see animals suffer just for the benefit for humans. Sometimes i think science can be so.....evil i guess?? I seriously do not get scientists at all. lol sometimes science can be good but then other times i just think it's nonsense and they're just theories that other people made up and nothing more.

chemicallyjinxy_xx wrote:

lol yeah, i know. i just think that they should be able to come up with a way with testing things without using a living being. I'm sure there's a way but they rather see animals suffer just for the benefit for humans. Sometimes i think science can be so.....evil i guess?? I seriously do not get scientists at all. lol sometimes science can be good but then other times i just think it's nonsense and they're just theories that other people made up and nothing more.

i agree with you.. i also think they could use celluls

yeah. they could use something besides poor animals who have no defense and i have no idea whats happening to them. they are useing them like they were nothing and they can love, hurt and feel everyway a human can.

yeah

i think that its horrible and disgusting that companies would test their products on animals
like billieaholic_x said, they can feel and love just like humans can.

i found on the internet the alternatives to Animal Testing and i think all companies who
test on animals SHOULD switch to these methods.

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So, just what type of alternatives are in use today? The most common type of alternative methods are: in-vitro tests, computer software, databases of tests already done (to avoid duplication), and even human "clinical trial" tests. Use of animal cells, organs, or tissue cultures is also deemed an alternative although, obviously, animal lives are sacrificed for the use of their parts. The specific tests are:

Eytex
Produced by the National Testing Corp. in Palm Springs, California, Eytex is an in-vitro (test-tube) procedure that measures eye irritancy via a protein alteration system. A vegetable protein from the jack bean mimics the reaction of the cornea to an alien substance. This alternative is used by Avon instead of the cruel Draize eye irritancy test.

Skintex
An in-vitro method to assess skin irritancy that uses pumpkin rind to mimic the reaction of a foreign substance on human skin (both Eytex and Skintex can measure 5,000 different materials).

EpiPack
Produced by Clonetics in San Diego, California, the EpiPack uses cloned human tissue to test potentially harmful substances.

Neutral Red Bioassay
Developed at Rockefeller University and promoted by Clonetics, the Neutral Red Bioassay is cultured human cells that are used to compute the absorption of a water-soluble dye to measure relative toxicity.

Testskin
Produced by Organogenesis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Testskin uses human skin grown in a sterile plastic bag and can be used for measuring irritancy, etc. (this method is used by Avon, Amway, and Estee Lauder).

TOPKAT
Produced by Health Design, Inc. in Rochester, New York, TOPKAT is a computer software program that measures toxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and teratonogenicity (this method is used by the U.S. Army, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration).

Ames Test
Tests for carcinogenicity by mixing a test culture with Salmonella typhimurium and adding activating enzymes. It was able to detect 156 out of 174 (90%) animal carcinogens and 90 out of 100 (88%) non-carcinogenes.

Agarose Diffusion Method
Tests for toxicity of plastic and synthetic devices used in medical devices such as heart valves, artificial joints, and intravenous lines. Human cells and the test material are placed in a flask and are separated by a thin-layer of agarose (a derivative of seaweed agar). If the material tested is an irritant, an area of killed cells appears around the substance.

and here's an unfortunately long list of companies that test on animals.

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Companies That Still Test on Animals (and associated brands):



* Alcon Labs
* Allergan, Inc.
* Alpha Hydrox
* Arm & Hammer
* ArmorAll
* Arrid
* Aziza
* Bain de Soleil
* Ban Roll-on
* Banana Boat
* Bausch & Lomb
* Benckiser
* BenGay
* Block Drug Co. Inc.
* Bounty
* Boyle-Midway
* Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
* Carpet Fresh
* Carter-Wallace
* Chesebrough-Ponds
* Church & Dwight
* Clarion
* Clairol
* Clear Choice
* Clorox
* Commerce Drug Co.
* Consumer Value Stores
* Coppertone
* Coty
* Cover Girl
* Crest
* Cutex
* Dana Perfumes
* Dawn
* Del Laboratories
* Desitin
* Diversey
* Dow Brands
* Drackett Products Co.
* Drano
* EcoLab
* Eli Lilly & Co.
* El Sanofi Inc.
* Elizabeth Arden
* Erno Laszlo
* Faberge
* Fantastik
* Fendi
* Final Net
* Finesse



* Flame Glow
* Giorgio
* Givaudan-Roure
* Glade
* Glass Plus
* Helene Curtis Industries
* Huggies
* ISO
* Jhirmack
* Johnson & Johnson
* S.C. Johnson & Son
* Johnson Products Co.
* Jovan
* Keri
* Kimberly-Clark Corp
* Kiwi Brands
* Kleenex
* Lady's Choice
* Lancaster
* Lava
* Lever Brothers
* Listerine
* Lubriderm
* Lysol
* Max Factor
* Mead
* Mop & Glo
* Nair
* Naturelle
* Neotoric Cosmetics
* Neutrogena
* Neutron Industries, Inc.
* Olean
* Oscar de la Renta
* Pantene
* Parfums International
* Pearl Drops
* Pennex
* Pfizer, Inc.
* Pine-Sol
* Plax
* Playtex Corporation
* Pledge
* Polident
* Post-It
* Prince Matchabelli
* Proctor & Gamble Co.
* Quintessence
* Raid
* Reckitt & Colman



* Richardson-Vicks
* Sally Beauty Supply
* Sally Hansen
* Sanofi
* SC Johnson & Son
* Schering-Plough
* Scotch
* Scott Paper Co.
* Sensodyne
* SmithKline Beecham
* S.O.S.
* Stanhome Inc.
* Sterling Drug
* Suave
* Sun Star
* TCB Naturals
* Tegrin
* 3M
* Tide
* Tilex
* Unilever
* Vaseline
* Vidal Sassoon
* Visine
* Vivid
* Warner-Lambert
* Westwood Pharmaceuticals
* White Shoulders
* Whitehall Laboratories
* Windex
* Woolite
* Yves Saint Laurent

wow...that's really really sad...

ya

whoa, thats way too many companies.
i don't get it. if they have alternative ways to test, why do they still use animals? its so stupid and infuriating.

they're too cheap i guess to buy all of those technologies, even though they're probably all multi-billion dollar corporations...fucking retards

yeah. i guess they just think its easier/cheaper to kill animals

yeah, guess so! grrrrrrr....

lol. It is so frustrating.

yeah, it is