The Fight for Animal Rights-Animal testing

      When you look at your shampoo bottle, what do you see? You may see the silky smooth hair you are yet to have. You may see a shampoo bottle, no ideas or thoughts attached. Or you may see an animal. But what do animals have to do with our shampoo? According to “Animal Testing 101,” your shampoo along with makeup and lotion and even soap are tested on animals. And I don’t mean a simple swatch of eye shadow. These poor guys as locked in overcrowded cages, forced to be injected with chemicals. Now what do you see?

      It’s easy to shrug something so heavy and depressing like this off, and just continue to shampoo our hair with that same bottle. When the fact is, “right now, millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country. They languish in pain, ache with loneliness, and long to roam free and use their minds.” The best part?” over 100 million animals are killed every single year. And others are not counting the reptiles that make up 85 percent of animal testing. And Millions of animals also suffer and die for classroom biology experiments and dissection, even though modern alternatives have repeatedly been shown to teach students better, save teachers time, and save schools money. PETA recommends boycotting this disgusting behavior and buying only cruelty-free products.

      The author shows the importance of cruelty free products through including numbers. These numbers show how big it’s become, to a point that makes you feel sad. Another example is the vivid images of animals in enclosed spaces without anywhere to go. Trapped internally and externally. It’s sickening. The biggest example the author can give is that there is an alternative option to this cruelty. The simple fact that this did not have to escalate is maddening.

      I cannot sit still now thanks to this article. I turn to my pets, my household pets and have to consider the fact that animals just like them are hurting, dying, suffering. It makes me feel depressed. The most depressing thing is I am only one pixel on the image of the world. I can fight, I can fight long and hard, but in the end I am only a 13-year-old girl who cries when she sees a dead pigeon on the sidewalk. So I will fight to protect these animals, and I will try, and hopefully someone will see this and help me.