Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Horrible Truth

Testing cosmetics and medical treatments in animals, people aren't aware of the real truth.
It's usually to ear people saying, to defend themselves: "Oh it's better than testing in humans!", or "They don't feel the pain!", "It's not that many!", ...


Well, we are here to say to you the Horrible Truth because everyone should know:
  • every year, a total of 115 million animals are tested and sometimes killed in the testing of products;
  • in some testing facilities, animals are routinely cut open, poisoned and ou forced to live in steel cages, for years and years;
  • in 2005: 66610 dogs, 57531 primates, 58598 pigs, 245786 rabbits, 22921 cats, 176988 hamsters, 64146 other farm animals, 32260 sheep, 221286 guinea pigs, 231440 other animals...
  • during 2009 it was accurately estimated that around 20 million animals have been tested on, and almost 15 million lost their lives.

And only 6% of the products that are tested on animals actually make it to the consumers!



In the human world, we are blind to the Horrible Truth, that the only reason animals are still being tested on is, in fact, laziness. If one big ticket company switched its ways, and set an example, imagine how many animals would be saved every day.

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