Exactly what price are you paying for those ruby red lips or extra-long lashes?
Enough is enough. As a blogger, fur mom, animal activist and ambassador for All Heart Foundation, Adré Muller has been conducting intensive research into the various products that test on animals and what she found was simply shocking.
Why do people make such a big deal about animal testing? I’m glad you asked. You have to keep in mind that these tests are not just simple, once off tests with little consequence. The type of tests some big name brands perform on animals are terrible, and have horrific side effects.
These tests that are carried out on mice, rats, dogs, bunnies and even horses, include skin and eye irritation tests, where chemicals are rubbed on their bare skin or in the eyes or mucous membranes. They even inject the ingredients into the animals to test acute toxicity (rats and mice are injected at deadly doses) and all these tests are done without any pain relief.
You might think that the price an animal pays is worth it when considered that products can then be made safe for humans. But. how can a product that has blinded or poisoned animals during testing still be marketed as safe? The answer is that one the main reason companies do these animal tests is, not to make the products safe, but to provide data they can use to defend themselves when they are sued by injured consumers (or consumers’ pets)? Companies use the fact that the products have been tested – rather than the actual test results – to support the claim that they are duty-bound.
