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  • Essay / Are cosmetic tests on animals necessary? - 541

    Why should animals die, just so humans can have cosmetics? It's understandable if you want to hide a scar on your face, but wearing makeup just because you think you need it, or because you feel like you can't live without it, is ridiculous. Animals should not die from our insecurities about how we look or how society judges us. If society sees someone who isn't Barbie or Ken perfect, they judge us, so we wear makeup, it's not right for society to do that. Because of their judgment, cosmetic products are tested on animals, and many of them die. Currently, hundreds of thousands of animals die during cosmetic product testing. The test animals die mainly from allergic reactions, and the scientists don't want to give them anything to stop the allergic reaction because it would interfere with their research, so they let them die. Other times the animal dies because the tests freak it out, it goes crazy and no one can calm it down, so they have to put it down. Cosmetics tested on animals should be banned because they use exotic products....