Animal Testing
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Following on from the introductory post simply entitled: Angel For Animals, in this post we want to look at the controversial subject of animal testing.
Its a hard and cruel fact of life that safety tests are routinely conducted on a wide range of chemicals and consumer products. These include drugs, vaccines, cosmetics, pesticides, household cleaners, foodstuffs and of all things, packing materials.
Safety testing of chemicals and consumer products probably accounts for about 10 to 20% of the use of animals in laboratories. That equates to approximately 2 to 4 million animals in the United States alone.
The use of animals for safety tests is something that figures prominently in the controversy over animal research.
Animal testing raises many issues. These include the ethics and humaneness of poisoning animals in tests, whether animal data is even applicable to humans, the harming of animals for the sake of marketing a new household product or cosmetic and whether it is possible to instead spare millions of animals by finding and developing alternatives to these widely used procedures.
We should be promoting alternatives to the use of animal testing for products as well as biomedical research and education. Alternatives exist - it just takes brave pioneers to implement the correct scientific methods to accomplish the same goals.
For many years, various pressure groups have encouraged companies and manufacturers to produce (and importantly, consumers to purchase) cosmetics and household products that have not used animal testing methods to bring them into the marketplace.
The ultimate aim is to urge household products and cosmetics manufacturers that used animal testing to sign on to the Corporate Standard of Compassion of Animals.
This is a rigorous manufacturing and product labeling policy. The Corporate Standard of Compassion of Animals ensures manufacturers and suppliers do not conduct or commission animal testing, nor will they use any ingredient or formulation that is tested on animals. Manufacturing and production companies who sign the standard are permitted to portray the coalition’s “leaping bunny” logo on their products as visual proof to the consumer of their commitment to the manufacturing of animal testing free and cruelty-free products.
The more weight this movement gathers, then the less animal testing that will be carried out, which in the long term can only be a good thing for our angel animals.
Angel For Animals
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Welcome to Angel For Animals, my latest blog and website about animals and how they truly are angels brought into out lives to enrich and embellish them with meaning, comfort and joy.
The initial thoughts on Angel For Animals would be to pets and it is to our pets that we owe so much for the love, companionship and pleasure that they give us.
But pets are not the only animals that enrich our lives. Wild animals also bring a completeness to our world and yet so many people are heartless and cruel to these wonderful creatures, often killing them just for sport, or to make money from them in some way. They need an angel for animals more than ever.
People like this are not worthy of the miracle of life and why they even exist on this planet is beyond my comprehension. So if you’re reading this and you are the kind of person who finds pleasure in making an animal suffer in some way, then you are not welcome here - go find a blog about killing something.
As for the rest of us who can truly call ourselves human beings by the simple fact that we understand that we are not masters of this planet and its inhabitants, merely passengers on the same train of life that we must all share. Then we can all be an angel for animals in that we can help those that are abused and mistreated.
Understanding takes intelligence.
Intelligence is what human beings are supposed to possess but I sometimes wonder if some of the walking meat-suits that make up a small percentage of our population actually use what they were given, or have forsaken it for who knows what.
Enough of my rantings.
I love all animals and am glad I live in a world where they can still run free for the most part and before the poachers’ rifles and huntsman’s misplaced sense of adventure have caused them to be extinct. I’d like to think that I’m an angel for animals and will try to keep up with reporting abuse and maltreatment wherever it crops up so that it is never swept under the carpet or allowed to pass us by without being brought to a wider public attention.
That’s being an angel for animals.
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