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.




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.



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.








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 :)