Are you against bying products tested on animals?
By Almateea
@Almateea (53)
Romania
November 20, 2011 3:59am CST
There is a strong wave of disapproval of these barbaric practices, but still, there are many big companies that ignore the public opinion and continue to test their products on animals. Do you choose your products carefully? Do you voice your disapproval in public? How to avoid buying products tested on animals? Do the labels tell the truth?
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8 responses
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
20 Nov 11
i think they can of course easily claim that they have not tested anything on animals... but then we would not really know. =(
For me, i would be honest, i am not very particular about this and often, i find myself sometimes not even checking about details such as this...
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@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
20 Nov 11
I eat a vegan diet and tend to purchase cruelty free products. I am totally against buying products that have been tested on animals. I never buy goods that have animal ingredients. I choose products very carefully indeed. I have two pet dogs that I adore. One shop I know says not tested on animals and no animal ingredients on its products. I like the label that says suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
@iuliuxd (4453)
• Romania
20 Nov 11
Same with the animals .If we don`t kill them all they will continue to make new kids and they will survive as a specie.Who told you that killing an animal is a bad thing but killing a plant or taking the leaves,flowers,seeds or roots is a good thing ? it is the same thing .And we are all using animal products , if we live on a civilized country we are using products made from animals one way or another.
@belaaa (181)
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20 Nov 11
If the roots remain plant continues to live. Part of they life cycle is to grow, gives product, overblown and lives again next year. It happens with vegetables even when people not use them.
I agree that humans are destroyer, but can try to limit this as far as possible.
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
20 Nov 11
I guess I will be the odd person out, here! YES...I am against animal testing..and yes I am vocal about it on another site! If you need to create a product, containing amounts of toxic materials to villify the market, test these products on animals...then tell us they are O.K., only to put out a warning 5 to 10 years later...what has been proven? I can name a kazillion chemicals that we are now getting daily warnings about...BPA, even used in Baby Formula bottles, releasing toxic cancer creating chemicals when heated!
Sorry, I get rather wrankled when for the sake of convenience we kill animals and people! I refuse to buy anything topical with names on, I cannot pronounce...and always research new products on line! I must rein myself in..here! Thank you for a good topic!
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
20 Nov 11
The thing is, for every one product you can name, there are a lot more worse products or chemicals that you've never heard of because they were discovered to be dangerous during animal testing, long before they made it to market. Imagine if every single toxic chemical killed a bunch of people before their danger was discovered. Or alternately, imagine if most of the fancy life-saving medicines don't exist because scientists never managed to use animals to discover what works and what doesn't.
@vandana7 (99124)
• India
21 Nov 11
I am. Apart from it being a cruel way to test a product, it is also never safe for humans. Each one of us has different chemical composition. This is the reason some people are allergic to some type of food or creams. Even within human beings we have such differences, how can we say that such differences do not exist in animals.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
I am against this! I love animals and I can consider them humans too. They have the same feelings like us, they just cannot speak. I consider this a crime. They're killing helpless, innocent animals. I don't think labels will actually say the truth about their products. Sometimes even if we don't support this kinds of things, we became ignorant of it especially if we buy things not knowing or researching about it.
@belaaa (181)
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20 Nov 11
That is crime for me! I can't understand why people are so naive and don't check that companies have alternative to use computers and chemical tests. Yes they are more expensive and slower but what of that, when alternative is cruelty? The most terrible is that biggest and richest company still do this crime. If you need information or shooing guide visit PETA and also http://www.navs.org.
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
20 Nov 11
Computer tests are not an alternative. They can be used to reduce the number of animal tests, but they cannot replace animal tests.
This is because computer simulations have to be programmed by human programmers, and human programmers can only put in the data they already know. No computer simulation currently in existence can completely represent an animal or human system, so some problems won't be detectable with simulations alone, which is why for the sake of human safety, animal testing is still required.
@inedible (768)
• Singapore
20 Nov 11
Chemical tests aren't an alternative either. Things like cytotoxicity assays are usually done before animal tests, not instead of animal tests. They reduce the number of animal tests by weeding out some toxic products before they make it to the animal testing stage.
@belaaa (181)
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20 Nov 11
I'm sorry, my english do not allow me to explain with scientist terms, like I can on my language.
Group scientist made very detailed databases, that already is used by the companies that do not tested. Unfortunately on this stage we can stop medical tested. But is stupid an cruelty to tested every soap, when other already is made same.
Chemical tested help because cane predicted how different components interact with each other. Everything is chemistry and most research are predectibal.
Scientist have many options, but they are expensive. Companies prefer to pay of one analyst not laboratory.
@iuliuxd (4453)
• Romania
20 Nov 11
I think people who are against products being tested on animals are big hypocrites or they have no idea about all the things they are using in every day life.Not only that we kill the animals to eat them but also a lot of other products are made from animals
@jtj_hello (627)
• Philippines
21 Nov 11
I think it is cruelty to do that to animals except for lab rats. Rats are known to have almost identical cells feature as human that is why medicine for human are normally tested on lab rats first before being release commercially. The reason that they do it that way is to make sure that before they let human take in the medicine they develop, it is somewhat proven to work the way it was desinged to work.
