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animal testing  and the production of fur coats? > BY. Sujin Lee = = 


1. Introduction 2. Facts of animal testing 3. Facts of fur coat production 4. Conclusion / How can we help? 5. Bibliography

= = =Introduction = Many people in the World, especially Korea, rely heavily on products that requires animal testing and buy clothes with fur without knowing the facts. This is one of the major issues that has global effects. Rats, and other rodents make up 85-90% of animal testing, but other than rodents, cats, dogs, monkeys, and more kinds of animals are used in product testing that you might be using now. We need animal testing for safety of humans but millions of lives are put to death for it. Lots of buyers don't know or even don't care about hunting animals for fur coat production. So, how are animals treated in animal testing and the production of fur coats?

= = =Facts of Animal Testing =

Animal testings are used for:
-COSMETICS For cosmetic experiment, people blind rabbits for new production of mascara. (This is one of the most often used animal testing for cosmetics) -HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS Animal testing on household products are mostly laundry detergents like Tide, and Downy. -SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT AND MORE Mostly used for research on new vaccines for diseases and experiment on reactions of a new disease. (All information from PETA)

So what are some pros and cons of animal testing?:
1. Animal testing helps medicine research. 2. Ensure the safety of drugs and other substances that humans put on to their skin. 1. Many animals are put to death as a result of animal testing 2. Since reaction of the test is different from animals with humans, significance of animal testing is an issue. ("Facts about animal testing" animaltesting.com)
 * __Pros:__**
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__More Facts:__
1. Animal testing costs American public $136 billion every year. 2. In 1994, more than 100,000 people was hospitalized and later killed form a toxic, and toxic reaction to medication was not proved by animal testing. 3. Drugs that pass animal tests end up harming or even killing 61% of the time. 4. Each year, 25 to 50 billion animals are killed in the lab after being tested on. ("Facts about animal testing" animaltesting.com)

__Some of the Companies and Products that use animal testing:__


 (Video from PETA about animal testing from youtube.com) media type="youtube" key="wWgoxbIzFhc" height="344" width="425"

= = =Facts of fur coat production =

(Advertisements from PETA about Fur Coat)

Facts of fur cloth production:
("Facts Fur" idausa.org)

1. Many people think wool, cashmere, mohair, etc, are not harmful for animals because people only shave sheep's fur. BUT sheep in the wool industry are treated like products, money: -weeks after lambs' birth, their ears get punched -their tails get chopped off -males are castrated All these WITHOUT anesthetics

2. To prevent "flystrike", which is a skin disease that is caused by wrinkled skin, Australian ranchers made an operation for sheep called "mulesing" which involves cutting sheep's skin off without anesthesia.

3. Minks, raccoons, beavers, and more animals are used in production of fur clothing.

4. Animals for production of fur clothing live their life in a small cage, and are killed by anal or genital electrocution-for heart attack.

5. Some animals are skinned alive.

6. For one mink coat, at least fifty-five wild mink, and thirty-five ranched mink are used.

(Video on animal hunting for fur coat production from youtube.com) media type="youtube" key="ZkJVcqhAuz0" height="344" width="425"

= <span style="color: rgb(16, 159, 249);">Conclusion / How can we help? = Animal testing primarily was for the benefit for humans but animal testing does not succeed, and prevent 100% all the time. Knowing this, it seems simply absurd to take away billions of lives without guaranteed positive result. Many people know the fur coat, but are mostly unaware of the truth behind experiments. Although the cruelty and inhumanness of animal testing and fur coat production seems dull, there are some positive news regarding this same issue as well. For instance, there are many beneficial organizations that fight against abolishing animal testing. Also there are some minor beneficial thing that we could do. Stop buying animal tested products and fur and leather clothes would be a great start of helping animals. There ways for you to keep your clothes clean and smell good without the sacrifice of animals. Be an educated consumer, because there are many companies these days that do not use animal testing. Read the labels!

For more information visit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): http://www.peta.com

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