Human Society Internationals ongoing campaign to stop repetitive and useless animal testing on cosmetics gained a huge push with the addition of Chrissie Hyndes signature. Quoting Hynde
'After all these years of consumers and animal welfare groups trying to enforce a ban, many cosmetic companies are still testing on animals,' Hynde said. 'Please check for a cruelty-free guarantee before buying a product and if it is not stated on the label, put it back on the shelf! Only by doing so can we see an end to the grisly practice of animal testing. Some of the biggest and most heavily advertised brands are still the guilty ones – don't let them deceive you! Check online with the Humane Society International if in doubt.'
Animals are kept in deplorable conditions and subjected to barbaric tests to make sure that shade of lipstick will do you no harm. The problem is the tests have been done thousands of times before. The results are the same, yet we continue to torture in the name of beauty.
Animal testing for cosmetics is banned across the United Kingdom and European Union, but ingredients can still be tested on animals in other countries such as Brazil, China, Canada and the United States and then be added to cosmetic products sold in EU shops. Animals can have chemicals forced down their throats, dripped in their eyes and applied to their skin. Sometimes pregnant females and their unborn babies are exposed to cosmetic chemicals.
'It's a double standard for the EU to continue selling cosmetics produced using inhumane animal tests that are banned in its own laboratories,' said Troy Seidle, director of research and toxicology for HSI/Europe. 'To end this suffering, it's vital that the EU ban on selling animal-tested cosmetics is enforced in full and on time, providing animal-testing companies abroad with a major financial incentive as well as the moral imperative to at last go cruelty-free.'
it really is a no brainer and one hell of a marketing tool to say you are cruelty free. By adding that statement you gained my hard earned dollar. No cosmetic or other product touches this girls skin without that affirmation. Do the same, the only way to stop is is by halting its profitability.