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The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals
An anonymous reader writes "Discover Magazine has this odd photo gallery in which they explain why certain animals are used in scientific research. Why are high-tech contact lenses always tried out in rabbits? Why do we study monogamy in prairie voles? Etc. They say of the 9 animals: 'Taken (or stitched) together, they form a kind of laboratory doppelganger for humans.'"
Plus, how the hell does cosmetic testing make something feel pain? Unless you are putting acid in your mascara or something in which case I'd rather something live in agony then that make it to store shelves!
They don't test (for example) shampoo by giving the test animal a nicer shower. You force the animal to ingest (to test what would happen if a child drank the bottle). Or dripping the shampoo into the test animal's eye. I'm sure you can imagine other scenarios.
These tests are often unnecessary & you can't really be sure that the test animal & a human subject would react in the same way in any case.
Seriously, if you thought about this for a fraction of a minute before posting, you would've figured this out. Are you some sort of retard who types without thinking?
There is a difference between splashing some shampoo in an animals eye and dropping it in and not letting the animal in any way wash, clean or blink its eye for an extended period. Of course the smart alek response is going to be 'haw haw but what if a child gets shampoo in their eyes and are restrained and have their eyes forced open for an extended period, wouldn't you want to know what happens?' which is just as stupid a comment as it looks.
It's idiotic opinions like that that think it's really clever to spray insect repellent into an animals eyes or force it to ingest poison and when it dies go 'well, it is good we did that cause now we know a human would die so we better put warnings on our products'. No shit - a moron could have come up with the same conclusion without the experiments.