Testing products on animals - Less and Less companies are doing this but we need more to stop!

Over the years I have been a keen supporter of various activist groups dedicated to the wellbeing of all animals.  PETA, IFAW, WWF and RSPCA are a few that I follow.  We have seen a lot of improvements but also a lot of terrible actions, in the name of research and fashion.

Here are some of the recent victories that have been achieved with the support of ordinary people like you and me, just a simple action of signing a petition can help!  We as consumers have so much power.

This next one is of particular importance to me and I am proud to have been involved in securing the victory, along with millions of like minded people.

L’Oréal Group Bans Badger, Goat, and All Other Animal-Hair Products

After hearing from PETA and nearly 80,000 of our supporters, personal-care brand Baxter of California banned badger hair. And now, its parent company, L’Oréal Group—the largest cosmetics and beauty company in the world—has banned badger, goat, and all other animal-hair products from its global brands.

L’Oréal Group is among the nearly 100 cosmetic, paintbrush, and shaving companies around the world that have turned their back on an industry that forces badgers to live inside cramped, wire cages before workers bludgeon them and slit their throat. But despite this cruelty, some companies continue to sell items made from badger hair. Please urge Blick Art Materials and others (to find out who they are please visit the PETA website) to follow suit and ban badger hair now.

Karl Lagerfeld and PVH Bans Exotic-Animal Skins

Karl Lagerfeld and PVH’s iconic brands, including Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, banned exotic-animal skins after learning from PETA that in the exotic-skins industry, workers handle ostriches violently, electrically stun them, and slit their throats, as well as cutting open alligators’ and crocodiles’ necks and jamming metal rods down their spines. PVH joins Brooks Brothers, Jil Sander, Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, and Victoria Beckham—among numerous others—in making this compassionate decision. We’re asking all brands that still sell exotic skins to ban these products of extreme cruelty. Please urge LVMH to follow suit and shed exotic skins from Louis Vuitton and all its other brands immediately.

This next one is a huge achievement:

Taiwan FDA Eliminates Cruel Food Safety Tests on Animals

The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) updated its health-food safety testing regulations, which will now prioritize widely recognized non-animal test methods—a landmark move that follows PETA’s recommendation to accept animal-free test methods approved by international regulatory bodies. With the TFDA’s adoption of our recommendation, there should be little to no health-food safety tests on animals in Taiwan going forward. 

For more information on companies that do and don´t test on animals visit the crueltyfreekitty.com

 

 

Along with fake cruelty-free claims come fake bunny logos that aren’t affiliated with any official organization. I’m going to show you how to tell if the bunny logo you see on the packaging is legitimate or lying to you.

Step 1

First of all, there are only 3 bunny logos a cruelty-free shopper should trust. The first step is therefore recognizing the logo: if it’s not one of the 3 logos below, proceed with caution!

Many companies use arbitrary illustrations of rabbits to indicate that their product is cruelty-free. While this doesn’t mean the company in question isn’t truly cruelty-free, you will have to research it and ask them the right questions.

The 3 bunny logos you can trust are the following: the Leaping Bunny logo, PETA’s cruelty-free logo, and the Choose Cruelty-Free logo (independent Australian organization; especially look for this symbol if you live in Australia!). Any other symbol or logo of a bunny is unofficial and has not been accredited by a reputable cruelty-free organization.

If you are worried about buying cleaning products that are tested on animals, are harmful to us and the environment then I have some recipes on here for making my own cleaning products, which use only organic products, save money and also the added bonus of  not buying more plastic! 

The blog song for today is: "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.

 

TTFN