Who are the Republicans?
Republicans are one of the two major parties in the United States. The republicans tend to be more conservative and tend to want to keep existing practices in place. They were founded in March of 1854.They were created as the predecessors to the Whig Party.
Republican View
While not all republicans are for animal testing they are highly more likely to accept it than democrats. 69% of republicans are more likely to be in favor of it. They believe that it helps further research since the brain of an animal is not as “advanced” as we are.
Republicans on Animal Testing
- Republicans are considerately more likely to view medical animal testing as morally acceptable
- Republicans are trying to keep the Humane Cosmetics Act from passing in Congress
- This is because it would make all animal testing for comercial cosmetics illegal in the United States.
- Personal Care Products Safety Act
- Introduced in 2016
- Is aimed to have the FDA regulate the safety of all cosmetics and personal care items such as shampoo, lotion, and makeup.
- This act will make it so that the companies will have to show through more extensive testing, like those of food and drug companies, that the product is safe for humans.
- A Gallup Poll from 2016 shows that on average
- 75% of Republicans feel as if Wearing and Buying fur clothing is morally acceptable
- 69% of Republicans feel as if Animal Testing is morally acceptable
- 31% of Republicans feel as if cloning animals is morally acceptable
- President Trump is one of the many Republicans who is against animal cruelty but is for animal testing in America
- Many Republicans in America are either Christian or Catholic as well, so they follow the bible.
- In Genesis 1:26, It states God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So many people take this as a form of their religon telling them that it is okay to use animals for testing because they are considered inferior to them in the eyes of God.