From Animal Cruelty to Animal Cruelty-Free

From Animal Cruelty to Animal Cruelty-free

In most of countries recently, there are millions of animals such as mice, rabbits and dogs that become victims of the experiments, or popularly known as animal testing. Since 1960s, this disrespect behavior has already done by most of researchers around this universe and the reason behind this is science (Bendall, L., n.d.). Animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing are another well-known science words of animal testing. Animal testing is mostly done by researchers for developing drugs, cosmetic products, and even electricity. There is a news about developing drug from choosecruelyfree.org.au that Rezulin, drug for people who suffer diabetic, already passed the animal testing but the result it kills many people because the drugs cannot work perfectly on human. Another drugs that tested in animals and mentioned in the website are amrinone (for someone who has a heart failure), pills for controlling the birth, eraldin, and chloramphenicol (an antibiotic drug). There is also a news about electricity experiment that using animal by the light bulb’s inventor, Thomas A. Edison. Edison tested the high voltage electricity to an elephant named Topsy to convince the citizen that those are dangerous (“Edison, Tesla, and Electrocution”, n.d.). Not only the individuals, but most of the performers of this phenomenon are companies. Until now, there are still lots of companies that use the animals to test their product. Even though nowadays all of companies seems like compete each other to be animal cruelty-free, because people, which is their consumers are starting to become environmental friendly. Some companies declared that they are not involving animal to test their product, but in fact, it is vice versa. One of the way that the companies did is creating subsidiaries that have been proven perform animal testing. Those main companies are Avon, P&G, L’Oreal and Unilever (“How to spot an animal testing company”, n.d.). For instance, Unilever has subsidiary named Dove, which is the product is tested on animals. With there is no Unilever followed the word Dove, consumers will not realize directly if the product is not animal cruelty-free. Another way is by buying the chemical reactions from the suppliers that have been tested to the animals. The companies are not using the animals, but their suppliers did, such as Chanel, Estee Lauder, Revlon and Tresemme (“How to spot an animal testing company”, n.d.). Animal testing is inappropriate to be applied in creating and developing drugs, beauty products and electricity experiment with regard to wasteful and immorality.

Based on dosomething.org, which is the website that concern on social change, there is only 8% drugs that works on human, whlist 100% safe and effective tested on animals. With this fact, it is such a waste of time, money, and life if the researchers keep using animal to test the drugs. First, it will waste the researchers’ time. Known that there is no instant experiment, because doing the experiment itself need to be done observation of the product from the beginning and it takes time. For a drug named Eraldin, addressed to people who suffer a heart disease, it takes six years before it enters the market. Moreover, sometimes while doing the experiment the researchers should learn the previous research before they develop it. Second thing is about the money. Unfortunately, experimentation is not a cheap thing. When developing the experimentation, the researchers need to buy the equipments and chemical reactions. If the researchers involve animals to be tested, they have to spend additional expenses to purchase the animal itself. Based on Baltimore Sun in neavs.org (2010), a drug experimentation may use up to 800 animals or around $6 millions.  So, if the drugs cannot work, the money will waste that way. The last thing is life. Life is the most important thing rather than time and money. Time and money can be replaced in other opportunity, but life cannot. Using animal for testing the drugs may led to the animal death, because there is a case that after the drug being tested in animals, the animals was killed to see how the system work inside their body. In short, those drugs’ tests will waste researchers’ time, money, and life of the animals if it is prolonged.