Stop Animal Lab Testing

The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring products are safe for human consumption before being placed on the market. Thus, the FDA passed the “Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act” to ensure products, such as cosmetics are safe before they are released to the public.

Although this legislation sounds reasonable and reassuring, it has encouraged all companies to test their products on animals in order to have them approved and sold. Companies are using animal testing across the country, and thousands of animals die every year due to inhumane treatment and infections. Animals are abused, cut, tortured, and intentionally infected with diseases and bred to have genetic deformities. This is a cruel and ineffective way for companies to test the toxicity and safety of their products.

How ineffective is animal testing? The FDA reports that 92% of products that pass the animal testing phases FAIL in human clinical trials, and therefore cannot be released to the public. Thus, animals are being abused, tortured, and ultimately killed for no scientific or monetary benefit at all. We are an intelligent, developed society and animal testing is clearly not our only option. Some companies have opted to use donated skin cells and body parts of deceased donors. There are alternatives.

Therefore, I am calling on the FDA to change its legislation regarding regulations on the testing of products to prohibit the use of animals.