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When you apply your make-up or put bleach down your loo, do you ever stop and think of the pain and suffering to animals, and damage to the environment these products have caused? Neither animals or the planet have to suffer just so we can pretty ourselves or clean our homes. There are so many products on sale that are NOT tested on animals. They will do exactly the same job and are just as safe to use. But you wont have blood on your hands while using them!

There are many different kinds of experiments carried out on animals, for different reasons.

Product safety tests see animals poisoned and killed to test new agricultural and industrial chemicals, also household cleaning products and cosmetics. Animals are force fed substances, have chemicals rubbed into their skin or dropped into their eyes, and are made to inhale toxic smoke and fumes.

Medical research also uses many animal experiments. New drugs or surgical procedures intended for humans are tested on animals. These animals are surgically mutated, given cancer, infected with viruses and brain-damaged.

Warfare research sees animals maimed, shot, irradiated, blown up, dosed with dangerous chemicals, gases, viruses and other biological agents.
They also carry out pain research where animals are burnt, scalded and injected with chemicals.
Animals, usually monkeys, are also treated extremely cruelly in psychological experiments, where they are brain-damaged, deprived of sleep, food and companionship. They are given electric shocks, forced to perform pointless repetitive tasks. They are seperated from their mothers at a very early age, and dosed with addictive drugs. Many have electrodes emplanted into their brains, so that scientists can measure brain activity while they are abused.

These kinds of barbaric experiments are carried out, and paid for by many companies such as Procter and Gamble, Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive. Charities such as Cancer Research UK and the British heart foundation fund research using animals too. The government also uses taxes paid by you to fund animals experiments in its own laboritories and university science and medical departments.

Stopping animal experiments will NOT see an end to medical progress, far from it! Animal research cannot be accurately applied to people. While non-animal methods produce results that are accurate and can be trusted.

Some more detailed examples of tests performed on animals include:

The Draize Eye Test
The application of irritating and toxic substances to the eyes of animals. These animals are held in stocks to keep them from dislodging these substances and usually go blind from the tests. These animals suffer intense pain in these tests which can last up to 21 days. When the test is complete these animals may be killed or used for other tests.

Dermal Toxicity Test
Animals have potentially caustic substances applied to their shaved skin while in immobilizing devices to determine irritation levels.

Lethal Dose Tests
Force feeding, injection or inhalation of substances to determine the quantity or concentration that will cause death.
These various tests cause the animals to have convulsions, vomiting, diarrhea, paralysis, and bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth and skin. The duration of these types of tests can last from months to years.
These tests do not guarantee what a reaction might be of these test substances on humans. Also, these tests do not guarantee the safety of products that end up on shelves. This is seen in the fact that conventional personal care products contain substances recognized as hazardous and continue to cause skin irritation and allergic reactions.

Some examples of alternative, non-animal testing are :-

'In vitro' tests
Scientists can study human cells or tissue in a test tube. These human cells can be used to identify disease, develop and test drugs, and for the manufacture of vaccines and antibodies. Every cell type can now be studied invitro,

Computer modelling
Sophisticated computers can now imitate the workings of the human body and duplicate the spread of disease so that research can predict how drugs will work and what effects they would have.

Clinical case studies
A very clear picture of a disease can be built up by monitoring illness in individual human patients.

Epidemiology
Health problems can be analysed by the study and comparison of groups of people.

Postmortem studies
Examining the bodies of people who have died can give huge clues about diseases and their causes.

Scans
Sophisticated scanning devices can now be used to study the workings, and problems present, in vital organssuch as the brain and heart.

BUY CRUELTY FREE, AND HELP STOP THEIR SUFFERING!

MAKE IT STOP!

Here is just a small list of the many cruelty free products available :-

ECOVER - Ecover make a wide range of products such as Toilet cleaner, Dishwasher tablets, Washing up liquid, Shower gel and soap. Check out their website or your local supermarket shelves to find out more...

ASTONISH - Astonish, just like Ecover, sell a wide range of products. Again check out their website and your local stores for more info.

LUSH - Lush make a fantastic range of beauty products, not only great for pampering yourself, but for giving as gifts too. Check out their website to see their fab goodies.

Here are a few more companies that produces cruelty free goods & their websites.

Aldi and Netto own products are not tested on animals. New look make-up and toiletries are not tested either.

For more information on animal testing visit the following website :-

 

Remember, dont be fooled by products called such things as 'herbal' or 'natural'. This doesnt mean they are not tested on animals.

 

 

Here is a list of charities that do, and do not test on animals....

 

 

 

 

 

DYING FOR A CUPPA?

 

Are you drinking tea right now? If so, I hope it's not a cup of PG tips, Lyons or Lipton tea – those brands might leave a nasty taste in your mouth by the time you've finished reading this.
The multimillion-pound company behind PG tips, Lyons and Lipton teas has caused animals to suffer and die so that the company can make health claims about its teas.
PETA has uncovered numerous cruel tests that the maker of PG Tips, Lyons and Lipton has conducted on animals to evaluate the effects of tea. The following are just a few examples:

•Rabbits were fed a high-fat diet, giving them abnormally high cholesterol levels and hardened arteries and then fed tea in their water. After the experiment, the rabbits' heads were cut off.
•Mice bred to suffer bowel inflammation were administered tea ingredients in order to see if there were any effects on their condition. After the test, the mice were killed by neck-breaking or suffocation.
• Rats were forced to eat a high-fructose diet, damaging their brains. Others had their abdominal wall punctured and were fed radioactively labelled tea ingredients through a tube in their stomach. All the animals were later killed.
• Piglets were exposed to E coli toxins which cause diarrhoea. As part of the tests, experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive. The pigs were then killed.

Experimenting on animals is not only cruel but also unnecessary. There are cheaper, quicker and more accurate methods available. Yet every three seconds, an animal dies in a European lab.
Typhoo, Twinings, Tesco and Fortnum & Mason have given PETA written confirmation that they don't test their teas on animals – but the maker of PG tips refuses to end its torment of animals.
Vivisection is a sickening example of exploitation on a massive scale. In 2009, more than 3.5 million individual animals were experimented on in the UK. All but a tiny few are now dead.
Animals in laboratories around the world are abused in horrific ways. Poisoned. Starved. Brain-damaged. Paralysed. Mutilated. Irradiated. Burned. Gassed. Electrocuted. Kittens are deliberately blinded. Mice are made to grow tumours as big as their own bodies. Monkeys have holes drilled into their heads. Sheep and pigs have their skin burned off.

YOU CAN HELP STOP THIS POINTLESS ABUSE IN SEVERAL WAYS...

• Pressuring companies to ban animal testing: this has been successfully done with more than 1,000 businesses.

• Publicising evidence from undercover investigations: the video footage from a recent PETA US investigation of a vivisection laboratory was so powerful that it led to the closing of the laboratory within a week of broadcast of the footage.

• Lobbying decision-makers at national and EU levels to stop animal testing: following pressure from PETA, European regulators recently issued new industry guidelines outlining how thousands of companies can avoid animal tests.

• Funding research of non-animal test methods: funding allowed for the scientific evaluation of a cruelty-free skin irritation test, which has replaced painful tests that were previously conducted on rabbits.

• Educating the public: the horrifying facts about vivisection need to be clearly communicated to the media and the public alike.

The animals who are suffering behind the closed doors of laboratories cannot help themselves. They need us – and so do countless other animals facing abuse right now. We must do everything in our power to save them.

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