I don't really care about animal testing. I agree completely with RTT. What else are scientists going to test things on, humans? If there wasn't animal testing, we wouldn't have many of the items and luxuries that we have today.
I'm sorry? The key word there was "luxuries" - In other words, things we don't
need to survive. I don't really care about the luxuries we have. Most of them go to waste! And so did that poor little animal's eye-sight, hearing, fur, or LIFE. Causing others to suffer, animal or human, for our 'luxuries', is wrong all the same in my opinion.
I don't want to argue with anyone over this, so please note that this is my opinion.
It's right, it's fine with me, I don't mind using animals in testing life-saving medications to cure diseases. But for make-up products and hair spray? I don't think it's worth it. A lot of you have very good points: Rachelgotchi, peeweebird_123... All of you. And I understand all of your reasons. So here are mine.
When you think of animals, you think of cute, soft, cuddly. When you think of make-up, hair spray, leather, you say "Ooh, that looks nice! I'd like to buy that! How much does that cost?" And when you think of animals labs, you think "Evil! Dastardly! Abusers! That's horrible, the poor little animals being tested on like that. They're so innocent!" And you think that while you're putting on your make-up, using your hair spray, and putting on your new leather jacket. You're
using the animals for your own 'comfort'.
Don't try to go both ways, because you can't. You can be either for animal testing all the way, be against it in every way, or say you don't mind medicine expiriments but nothing else. And you can't change your mind because of a product, a 'luxury', just like that, because in my opinion that's betrayal. You can choose what you do, and you decide to use these products that have wasted an animal's spirit, their possibilities of life. We're wasting their chances away on ourselves.
I know some of you have said things like, "If you're not against it, I hate you!". That's just hurtful, and there's no excuse for saying things like that. People are commited to their opinions and thoughts just as you are. And they don't say things like, "If you're against it you're wasting your time...". See my point? So please don't keep on with these sort of comments.