For the past long while, we have been working on TEDTalks projects about major issues in the world. The topic I chose to do is animal testing. Over 50-100 million vertebrate animals are tested on each year.
Animal testing is not only cruel, but pointless. Just because a product is safe or unsafe to use on animal, doesn’t mean that it’s okay or not okay to use on a human. One of the solutions to animal testing that is going on right now is protesting. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn’t because if people don’t get a response quickly, they will give up.
Another is is donations. Donating on websites like PETA, SPCA, or StopAnimalTests probably can help, but what I don’t understand is where the money would go to help the problem. It goes to research but how does that help it? All it is is educating people about the issue.
Another one is petitions. Petitions could help because if you sign a petition to stop animal testing and then someone hands it in to a company, they could see how many people care about the issue. But just because a bunch of people signed a piece of paper doesn’t mean a top-of-the-line company is going to stop what they’re doing.
The last one I found was laws. There are no actual laws against all types of animal testing, only on testing cosmetic products on animals. Some people say that animal testing could become a regulation in some beauty product manufacturers.
We were told to come up with better solutions of our own. I came up with three. The first one is better protests that go on until results are shown. The second one is boycotting companies that test their products on animals. Boycotting a company is when you don’t buy anything that that company makes. I think this solution could help alot because if enough people do it, it would be really effective and the company would know that people want them to stop testing on animals and won’t buy their products untl they stop.
The last and most effective one that I came up with was new laws against all types of animal testing. If people are caught testing on animals, they should be fined, shut down, or sent to jail. Since there are none like that, I think this would be the most effective solution to animal testing.
That pretty much sums up what my TEDTalks project is about.
*smotto.
Your right, it’s stupid how people test things on animals, it’s just dead wrong. Animals are alive too, they also aren’t that different from us, they can breathe, they can feel pain, and they live, that should be enough for people to stop testing stupid products on them.