Beauty and The Beast

About beauty, about real beauty

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Taking it over to a sanitised laboratory bench, Dr Tamsin Decker supervises as solution is squirted into the defenceless animal’s eyes. She has done this many times before — and will watch as it’s done again until the rabbit shows some side-effects: pain, irritation, bleeding perhaps, and eventually, possibly, blindness.On other days, Dr Decker might be required to inject mice, birds or rats with toxins to see how long it takes them to die, or to record what happens to their foetuses.‘I felt numb — no, guilty,’ she admits afterwards. ‘It isn’t as if the end justified the means. We weren’t researching some cancer cure here. We were testing a well-known chemical that has been used in household products for more than 100 years...... "  

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Contrary to popular belief, scientific testing on animals is not a thing of the past. Inside the EU borders, about 12 million animals are used in animal testing each year. Majority of these testings are done by universities and research labs under "basic research", about 10% of animals tested are tested for chemicals for consumers - makeup, washing liquid, toothpaste (even though EU banned all animal testing on cosmetics 2003). Reason for animal testing in rise is the legislation about chemicals used in manufacturing - the safety of the chemicals used needs to be scientifically proved. EU parliament approved the project called REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of all Chemicals) in 2006, where chemicals that are brought or produced inside EU more than a ton a year need to have a wide research of all ingredients - even products that we've been using years and years. Because of REACH project, there is about 30 000 ingredients waiting to be tested - majority of these ingredients have already been in the market for a long time. And how many animals do you think we need for all this, a hundred, a thousand, a million? Estimated 13 million. 13 million lives. First of all, do we really need all these toxins in our life that can cause damage to someones health? And second of all, if we have been using that cehmical for hundreds of years, don't you thin kwe would know if it's not safe for us already? Oh but that's why we are testing defenceless animals, so we can tell if it's safe or not, sorry, i forgot. And third of all, would it not be wiser to use all the money that they use to re-test all the cehmicals to improve the cruelty-free methods of testing chemicals? There is about 10 000 ingredients that are already proven to be safe in chemical industry- why do we need more? Cosmetics labelling laws are such that companies can make misleading ‘not tested’ claims on packs, which usually only relate to testing of the final product and not to the ingredients. You are the one who needs to make the choice. Don't support animal testing. Don't support companies that support animal testing. Be smarter than that and think about what's really important in your life.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Little cloud of companies that don't use animal testing...

  Amazing Cosmetics Inc.           Avon Products Inc.               Bare Organics

    Be Natural Organics                  Bio Creative Labs                               Beauty Without Cruelty

                   Faith Products                               Freeman           Lifehair                            Raw Gaia

     Cheeky Cosmetics                Color Me Beautiful                                   Cuccio Naturale

                        Dermalogica                                  Dr. Hauschka                            Ecover

And the big names that just don't care...

L´Oreal (Biotherm,Garnier, Helena Rubinstein, Giorgio Armani, Lancôme - Also owners of The Body Shop)

Johnson & Johnson (Listerine, Lubriderm, Neutrogena)

Pfizer

Procter & Gamble (Dolce & Gabbana, Gillette Co. Gucci, Hugo Boss, Lacoste)

Unilever (Comfort, Dove, Axe)

Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer)

Colgate- Palmolive Co

 Full List of companies by PETA