When people think of the animals that we test things on they normally don't think that rabbit's get tested on to. I don't know if I'm for or against animal testing, but when I hear or see things about rabbits getting tortured by testing, it's sad. Millions of rabbits get slaughtered every year for their meat and fur. Which is actually how I got my first rabbit, she was bought at a Meat Market that sells rabbits around Easter time for some peoples Easter Dinner. I didn't even think Bay City had places here that sold rabbits solely for that purpose. There's a test called a Draize Test, where caustic substances are placed in the eyes of conscious rabbits to avoid damage to sensitive eye tissues on humans. Which is very painful for rabbits, they often scream and/or break there backs or necks to try to escape the restraints. There's another test called the Lethal Dosage (LD) test to determine the amount of a substance that can kill a predetermined ratio of animals. The poisonous substances are injected or put through stomach tubes, until half of the rabbits die. Some of these tests are pointless anyways because sometimes they don't determine health standards for humans, only how much that animal, rabbits in this case, can handle. Regulatory agencies do not require animal testing on cosmetics. Non-animal testing has been thouroughly demonstrated, so why put all these helpless animals through hell?
www.leapingbunny.org This is a site where you can go that shows you where you can buy products that aren't tested on animals
