omy and physiological effects. There seem to be two important questions that animal rights activists seek to answer. Are the treatments humane? And are there alternatives to animal testing? Today many scientists and activists fight against vivisection, the dissection of live creatures. This practice seems very unethical to large amounts of people when they are conducted on poor, defenseless animals. Animal testing is portrayed as an inhumane injustice. The Draize Eye Irritancy Test and the LD-50 Test are just a couple of tests that harm millions and millions of animals each year. The afore mentioned Draize Test is used to measure how harmful chemicals found in cosmetics and household products can be by observing the damage they cause in the eyes and on the skin of animals like rabbits. The test is very simple. While holding open the animals’ eyes with metal clips, a solution is dropped in to see what happens over a given time frame. Reactions are different for certain species, but for the most part animals suffer great pain from this sort of test and it often causes blindness in the animals’ eyes. At the end of the test period however, all of the animals are killed anyway to determine the internal effects the substance had on the organism. This is not the only inhumane test out there today. The LD-50 Test, or Lethal Dose 50% Test, is another test that kills numerous animals annually. This test takes a certain number of animals, usually 200 or so, and forcibly feeds the test group a substance until over half of the group has died. Animals usually suffer from different areas of pain during the administering of this test. Convulsions and diarrhea are two of the more significant side effects the animals experience. However, once again at the end of the testing period those animals that have not already died are killed. Each of these unjust tests both provide adequate safety and information for humans correct?...
