Céilidh | Cailey - My Life

Thursday, May 18

Happy Mother's Day

Mummy, you are the most special mother and you mean the world to me!
I admire and respect so many things about you... including...

Your love and care for all animals, big and small

Your amazing artistic ability

(beautiful paintings around Greyton village)


Your positive, optimistic outlook on the world

Your inspiring character which touches all those who know you

Your charismatic and outgoing personality

(never a dull moment!)


Your love for children and your eagerness to help them learn

(giving the underprivileged kids art lessons)

Your beautiful smile...

You are truly beautiful inside and out. Happy Mothers day!

Monday, May 1

Animal Testing







The next time you go shopping - Remember the animals...


+/- 115 MILLION animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories (in the U.S.A alone) every year.

Experimentations include:

- Pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs
- Hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs
- Isolating baby monkeys far from their mothers
- Forcing toxic products into rabbits' eyes
- etc etc etc





Eye irritancy



Products are placed in rabbits' eyes for 3 days to see if it will cause irritation and damage to the eye. Redness, swelling, discharge, ulceration, cloudiness and blindness occurs. This is extremely painful.

Eytex: Produced by the National Testing Corp. in Palm Springs, California, Eytex is an in-vitro (test-tube) procedure that measures eye irritancy via a protein alteration system. A vegetable protein from the jack bean mimics the reaction of the cornea to an alien substance. This alternative is used by Avon instead of the cruel Draize eye irritancy test.


Skin irritancy



Patches of rabbits skin are shaved and abraded slightly to make them more sensitive. Products is placed on these patches and covered with gauze for 4 hours causing redness, inflammation, weeping and scabs. Obviously this kind of injury is extremely painful.

Skintex: An invitro method to assess skin irritancy that uses pumpkin rind to mimic the reaction of a foreign substance on human skin, both Eytex and Skintex can measure 5,000 different materials. Testskin: Produced by Organogenesis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Testskin uses human skin grown in a sterile plastic bag and can be used for measuring irritancy, etc. This method is used by Avon, Amway, and Estee Lauder.

Acute toxicity



Products are fed to animals to see if they are poisonous when swallowed. The traditional test is the LD50 test, where increasing doses are fed to animals until half of them die. The animals are observed for 7-14 days. Rats and mice are most often used, although sometimes species such as rabbits, guinea pigs or dogs are also tested.

In the case of harmless products, like lipstick, ridiculous quantities have been fed to animals to make half of them die.

The animals often suffer from abdominal pains and cramps, convulsions, vomiting, paralysis, diarrhoea, breathing difficulties, bleeding ulcers etc.


TOPKAT: Produced by Health Design, Inc. in Rochester, New York, TOPKAT is a computer software program that measures toxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and teratonogenicity. This method is used by the U.S. Army, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration.





AT THE END OF EACH TEST ALL ANIMALS ARE KILLED!

Please check out the list of companies (on the panel -->) that do and don't test on animals and rather buy a product that is animal friendly - it's the least we can do :)