Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals in experiments. Worldwide it is estimated that the number of vertebrate animals-from zebrafish to non-human primates-ranges from the tens of millions to more than 100 million used annually.[1] Invertebrates, mice, rats, birds, fish, frogs, and animals not yet weaned are not included in the figures; one estimate of mice and rats used in the United States alone in 2001 was 80 million.[2] Most animals are euthanized after being used in an experiment.[3] Sources of laboratory animals vary between countries and species; most animals are purpose-bred, while others are caught in the wild or supplied by dealers who obtain them from auctions and pounds.[4]
The research is conducted inside universities, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies, farms, defense establishments, and commercial facilities that provide animal-testing services to industry.[5] It includes pure research such as genetics, developmental Biology, behavioral studies, as well as applied research such as biomedical research, xenotransplantation, drug testing and toxicology tests, including cosmetics testing. Animals are also used for education, breeding, and defense research. The practice is regulated to various degrees in different countries.
Supporters of the use of animals in experiments, such as the British Royal Society, argue that virtually every medical achievement in the 20th century relied on the use of animals in some way,[6] with the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences arguing that even sophisticated computers are unable to model interactions between molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and the environment, making animal research necessary in many areas.[7] A number of scientists, animal welfare, and animal rights organizations-such as PETA and BUAV-question the legitimacy of it, arguing that it is cruel, poor scientific practice, poorly regulated, that medical progress is being held back by misleading animal models, that some of the tests are outdated, that it cannot reliably predict effects in humans, that the costs outweigh the benefits, or that animals have an intrinsic right not to be used for experimentation.[8]
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no it isn't tested on animals !!
There is a very good chance that they are not - the European Union has banned the sale of all cosmetics that have been tested on animals, which has in effect caused all international companies to stop testing cosmetics on animals.
Many of the animals die, are put to sleep, or tested on with something else.
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Their products are not tested on animals and most of them are vegan.
The FDA does not require anything to be tested on animals. However, many, many companies still choose to do so.
According to PETA, Meaningful Beauty products are not tested on animals. There are online databases which maintain constant updates on which cosmetics companies test on animals.
You're in luck! Jordana Cosmetics is a cruelty-free brand which means it's not tested on animals at all. Jordana is owned by the New Milani Group, which also owns Milani Cosmetics. The New Milani Group stands by their pledge against animal testing, making both brands cruelty-free.
Noxema, Dove, Aveeno, Clean and Clear, Cover Girl, Elizabeth Arden, and the oils in Olay, are just some of the cosmetics that are tested on animals...there is a long list.