Animal Cruel & Painful Testing

What would you say if I told you that two or three of those four little animals above died just to make sure that your shampoo, floor polish, and antibiotic are safe for you and your family?

Every minute , hundreds of animals suffer and are exposed to convulsions, labored breathing, diearrhea, constipation, emaciation, abnormal posture, and bleeding from the eyes, nose or mouth; develop skin eruption or irritation, and tumors; get sick or stressed till the point of hurting themselves, and even get killed without any mercy in laboratories of cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and household products companies.

Guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, dogs, cats, fish, and so many other animals, are used for these cruel experimentations, despite the fact that there are cheaper and more effective ways of proving the safety of products, and simply forgetting that animals are also living creatures, and that they feel pain just like us.

Fortunately, there are some companies that are using alternative methods of testing products that leave animal testing behind; for instance, they are using donated human retinas to test eye irritation and cultured human skin to evaluate skin reactions.

This ethical issue has been controversial for decades, and animal lovers have been fighting against all these hearthless procedures in many different ways. But, what can we do, apart from signing lists claiming to stop animal testing, or demanding the companies to, at least, follow the three Rs (Reduce the use of animals on scientific procedures with non-animal alternatives whenever possible; Reduce the number of animals used in any animal testing procedure; and Refine procedures so that animals experience less pain, suffering, and discomfort)?

If we are really concerned about this real problem, we colud just stop buying products from companies that use animals for their researches.

Here is a list of some well-known companies that currently do those procedures:

Alberto VO5, Always, Ace, Ades, Adidas, Alberto-Coulber (3M), Anubis, Ariel, Axe, Bic, Biotherm, Blem, Cacharel, Calvin Klein, Clorox, Close up, Colgate-Palmolive, Cover Girl, Cutex, Denim, Dog Chow, Dolge & Gabbana, Dove, Drive, Duracell, Ecolab, Elizabeth Arden, Friskies, Garnier, General Motors, Gillette, Giorgio Armani, Glade, Glassex, Hellmann's, H&S, Huggies, Hugo Boss, Johnson & Johnson, Kleenex, Knorr, Kotex, Liquid Paper, Listerine, Lysoform, Maisena, Maybelline (L'oreal), Mennen, Mr. Músculo, N.A.S.A., Nenuco, Nestle, Neutrógena, Nina Ricci, Pampers, Pantene, Pato WC, Playtex, Pepsodent, Pond's, Post-it, Pro Plan, Purina One, Oral-B, Puig, Raid, Ralph Lauren, Secret, Sensodyne, Speed Stick, Sedal, Tampax, Timotei, Vaseline, Vasenol, Veet, Vichy, Ives Saint Lauren, Whiskas, Ziploc.

Here are some companies that DON'T experiment with animals:

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Aqua Herbal, Armani, Avon, Benetton, Channel, Clinique, Christian Dior, Dento, Donna Karan Beauty Company, Ebel, Esteé Lauder, Eucerín, Epilady, Gap, Gucci Parfums, Heno de Pravia, M.A.C., Nivea, Oriflame, Revlon, St. Ives, Tommy, Tommy Girl, Tommy Hilfiger, Wella.

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research" George Bernard Shaw

Posted by RuuuL