midterm outline

product testing on animals

• cruel and not needed

• no ban on testing products on animals

• painful circumstances without any relief

• can lead to blindness, death, and scarring

• even though we test to make sure the product is safe for humans, that doesn’t make it right

• once the experiment is over the animal will most likely be killed. if the animal is not killed then it will be used for other experiments in the future years

• more than 90% of animal testing has failed

• the goal of the EPA is to get rid of animal testing by 2035

  sources: https://www.humanesociety.org/all-our-fights/ending-cosmetics-animal-testing

  https://sentientmedia.org/why-is-animal-testing-bad/

  https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/animals-used-experiments-faq

  https://www.peta.org/blog/experiments-on-animals-fail-90-of-the-time-why-are-they-still-done/

  https://www.nap.edu/read/10089/chapter/12

  https://www.science.org/content/article/us-epa-eliminate-all-mammal-testing-2035

factory farming

factory farming - keeping animals and livestock close together in tight places for efficiency

• it is efficient because all of the goods that are produced by animals will be in one spot

• supported by the federal gov.

• it can also be good because it will keep the prices lower for humans and will keep the price low for the farmers

• https://www.earth.com/earthpedia-articles/what-is-factory-farming-is-it-good-or-bad/

• https://ffacoalition.org/articles/when-did-factory-farming-start-and-why-does-it-still-exist/