Are You Paying For Animal Testing? (from PETA)
AnimalCare 
Oct 17, 2012 
AnimalCare, NGOs 
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This is from PETA:
Are you paying for tests on animals? For many compassionate people just like you, the answer could unintentionally be yes. Right now many unsuspecting consumers are purchasing products from companies that continue to conduct cruel—and entirely unnecessary—tests that will cost countless animals their lives.
This includes some corporations that have publicly stated that they are against animal tests! Major companies like Revlon, Avon, Mary Kay, and Estée Lauder have gone back on their pledge to refuse to allow animals to be poisoned or blinded in order to market their products in China, a country with an abysmal animal-protection record that requires cruel and archaic tests on animals for common consumer products and their ingredients.
PETA’s Global “Stop Animal Tests” Challenge may be your best opportunity to help prevent animals from suffering and dying in these cruel tests. Your generous gift—if made before October 31—will be matched, dollar for dollar, toward our $250,000 online goal and go twice as far toward saving animals from painful experiments.
The horrors suffered by animals in product-testing laboratories have been documented over and over again, yet for some companies, the misery inflicted upon thousands of rabbits, mice, and other animals seems to be a small price to pay for access to developing consumer markets such as China’s. These animals are poisoned and blinded in an array of painful, archaic, and often deadly experiments for cosmetics and personal-care products. Sometimes these tests involve forcing substances into animals’ stomachs, exposing sensitive skin to caustic compounds many times what consumers would be exposed to in their entire lifetime, and dripping chemicals into an animal’s eyes to the point of painful deterioration and blindness. These types of barbaric tests do nothing to ensure consumer safety but are instead often conducted for use in fighting consumer liability claims or to meet the archaic requirements of governments like China’s.
All four of the cosmetics giants that I mentioned here were once on PETA’s list of cruelty-free companies. But now they have resumed paying for experiments on animals in order to meet Chinese regulations. They all appear to have accepted that animals should pay the high cost for the companies’ efforts to expand into new overseas markets.
By donating to the Global “Stop Animal Tests” Challenge between now and October 31, your gift will be matched by a group of generous PETA donors, giving us twice the resources that we need to stop more tests and save more animals’ lives.
This is a fight that we can—and will—win. While some companies have shed their cruelty-free policies for a share of the profits from China, others such as Paul Mitchell and Urban Decay have committed to their principles by refusing to enter a market that requires them to fund deadly animal experiments in order to sell their products. Right now, scientists funded partially by PETA are training Chinese scientists to use better non-animal testing methods and are working with Chinese officials to gain approval for that country’s first non-animal testing methods for cosmetics ingredients.
Our continued progress in halting deadly experiments on animals is dependent upon one thing: the support of compassionate people just like you. PETA is committed to seeing an end to the suffering of animals in experiments like those I’ve described here. Will you stand with us—and the animals we are working to save—by donating to our Global “Stop Animal Tests” Challenge right now?
Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2012/10/17/are-you-paying-for-animal-testing-from-peta/
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