g killed in order to provide vain women with cosmetics. The tests that these animals are being used in range in cruelty. The two that are the cruelest and are the mostly widely used are the Draize and the LD50 tests. The Draize test, developed in 1944, involves dropping potentially irritating substances into the eyes of rabbits, whose inferior tear ducts do not allow them to cry the substances away. The Food and Drug Administration supports this test. Susan Rick, director of the compassion program at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), a Washington, D.C. based animal rights organization. Points out the fact that its their test pointing out that the doctor that developed the test worked for the FDA. Its not surprising then that according to FDA guidelines, new drugs must be determined safe as well as effective. While the FDA has no authority to require animal tests per se, it does require the most accurate tests available. And right now, the FDA believes that means animals. Thats right they have no authority, because there is NO law that requires companies to test their personal care and household products on animals before selling them to consumers. The second, and possibly even crueler than the Draize test is the LD50 test.LD50 stands for Lethal Dose 50, meaning that they determine what concentration of a substance is needed to kill 50 percent of an animal group. They kill HALF of the animals in a test group in order to know how much it takes to kill them. How does this test make any sense? That would be like killing half of the people in this room. There are 20 students in this class, how would you like coming to class knowing that only 10 people were going to leave, you would be killed intentionally with a lethal cleaning solution, just so that someone would be able to know how much it took before you died. Solution:These tests are evil and cruel, and what makes it worse is that they are completely unnecessary. T...
