Imagine an open field with the smell of freshly cut green grass, a beautiful crystal clear blue sky, a brightly shining sun, and a few clouds to make the day picture perfect. A rabbit is frolicking in the field and carelessly hopping around chasing the minuscule insects in the air. Its fluffy newborn brown fur, a soft cloud-like cottontail, big floppy ears, and a cute pink nose smelling the awesome environment it is living in as harmless as can be. Now imagine the same rabbit in a small, dark, dingy laboratory cage providing neither social nor environmental contact until it becomes time for testing. The cage is filthy with feces surrounding the poor, innocent rabbit and crystallized hair is on the cage bars (Pardue). It licks and chews the bars furiously and frantically paws at the corners of the cage, hoping it will escape because there is no room for it to sit on its hind legs, hop, dig, or hide. The gloomy look in the rabbit's eyes shows it is no longer cheerful but depressed and unhealthy due to malnutrition. The scientist who is about to perform the useless, harmful, and life-threatening tests roughly takes the rabbit out of the cage. He shaves its fur until it is red and raw then proceeds to puts chemicals in its eyes to see the rabbit's reaction. The rabbit is then killed by the scientist and thrown away with the others. The results of these tests are nothing more than a dead rabbit. No scientific advances were found. It is a waste of time, money, and an innocent animal's life. Rabbits are not the only animals used in testing. Rats, birds, mice, dogs, cats, and many other animal species are also used (Greek). Animals are unreliable sources for medically testing cosmetic products and medicines, but it is wrong, costly, highly ineffective, and harmful to them.
             First of all, according to Peggy Carlson in her "Animal Medical Experimentation is Unjustified" article, animal testing has been used for many centuries. Vivisection i...