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I choose this picture because; it’s basically an advertisement on not testing or experimenting on animals. I personally love animals and find this very disturbing to see how harmful these things are to these creatures.

Cover girl is a makeup company and they put out tons of ads and come out with new makeup every year. Although, before you can put these products out on the market they have to be proven safe for use. Just as anything does, they have set backs, these set backs are only known because of the testing they do on animals. I do agree that if someone or something is going to be harmed its better if it's a lab rat rather then your thirteen year old daughter. But do we really need these things? Do we need our eye liner, mascara or lipstick? Personally I think not, but if you use these products you might think differently. This topic is so controversial, how can you decide what things are necessary and which aren't? It’s impossible.

The pictures and the information you find online about these animals is endless.

For people who don't understand this picture at the top, they replaced a model with a dog. Members of cover girl did not because it is bad for publicity; although groups like Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) photo shop images for their own advertising purposes.

The (AWA) or animal awareness act " requires that minimum standards of care and treatment be provided for certain animals bred for commercial sale, used in research, transported commercially, or exhibited to the public."

This law was passed back in 1966, although as you guessed their probably is plenty of people that are not following these laws correctly.

Also in 1985 they passed an amendment that was supposed to make better living conditions for laboratory animals. Basically any animal (especially dogs) should have a healthy environment where they can run and exercise consistently. They also are not allowed to use a single animal for any major procedure if it hasn't already been healed from the previous one. Now, they make sure the people they hired are capable and trained correctly. This happens ever where all over the world; employees are hired but do not have the proper training to do their job correctly. This was a huge problem hundreds of years ago with mentally ill patients; they were being treated worse than animals and living in their own feces. Mostly because we assumed these people could not tell the difference; when in fact they could.

It’s a big jump from people to animals but what about primates? These are chips and monkeys, which over evolution brought us humans. Are we not doing more and more studies every year proving the intellectual levels of these chimps? They might not be able to do complex math problems but they are besides us some of the more intelligent animals we know of; almost as smart as us and one day they will be.

I think these animals (monkeys) know exactly what's happening to them. Although these primates are not the most commonly used animal, typically you would use guinea pigs. I don't know much about these animals but I know their not like chips. And it was defiantly a relief to know they use the monkeys lastly if possible.