Animal testing (From The Northern Echo)
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Animal testing
9:53am Friday 18th July 2008 in Letters
MANY readers of The Northern Echo will presume that animal testing of shampoos and cosmetics is a thing of the past.
Although such testing is banned in Britain, there are products on sale here that are still being tested on animals abroad.
One such product is Herbal Essences. Behind the “natural”
and “organic” branding lies the reality of hundreds of animals killed by unnecessary testing.
There are many shampoos on the market produced without animal testing, one example being Co-operative stores which sell its own brand of shampoo and personal care items approved by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, so it can be done and there is no excuse for Herbal Essences to inflict suffering on any animal.
The thing that will persuade Herbal Essences to stop animal testing is people simply stopping to buy the product.
I urge readers genuinely concerned about animal welfare to help defend the defenceless and register their support for the campaign at www.hurtfulessences.org.
If enough people show their opposition to this animal testing then we have a great chance of persuading Herbal Essences to mend its ways.
Barbara Bates, Shildon, Co Durham.
Comments(3)
petsak
says...
4:21pm Fri 18 Jul 08
CatC
says...
1:08am Sat 19 Jul 08
This is because each species is different at the cellular and molecular level which is where disease occurs, because of this no species can be a 'model' for any other species - it means what is safe / effective in one species can be harmful / useless in another species.
Further, the tiny genetic variations WITHIN species mean that what is safe / effective in one individual of the species can be harmful / useless in another individual of the species.
That this is the case is proven by the fact individual humans can and do vary in their response to chemicals / medicines.
As, due to tiny genetic variations, individual humans do not predict effects in other individual humans ask yourself how it could possibly be true that results from individuals of OTHER SPECIES can be used to predict effects in individual humans.
Some humans have allergic reactions, sometimes severe reactions, while other humans do not, some humans have Cystic Fibrosis while other humans do not, some humans get Parkinson's disease while others do not, some humans get breast cancer other humans do not, etc etc...
Anyone who genuinely wants safe products and medical progress must support an end to experiments on other species and demand we have scientific, human-relevant testing / research.
More information at
www.safermedicines.o
rg
Angst
says...
12:59pm Thu 21 Aug 08
The only reason animal testing takes place for cosmetic use is if a new chemical is introduced - and as we already have thousands of chemicals that can be safely used there is no excuse for killing animals to test a chemical for such trivial products as Herbal Essences!
No right thinking person would support such unnecessary brutality.
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