n tests sur animaux horreur , mensonge = "aucune' cruauté!

lundi 1 mars 2010
Le départ approche, je prépare ma
valise!
Le départ approche et il est temps pour moi de commencer a faire ma valise, et c'est aussi l'occasion de vous ouvrir les portes de ma trousse de toilette. Étant une personne très coquette, je me maquille tous les jours, j'adore me coiffer, et bien sur sentir bon. Et hors de question de transiger sur tout ça lorsque l'on a la possibilité de trouver des produits NON TESTE SUR LES ANIMAUX (Et de A a Z! Attention aux produits finis non testés, les ingrédients eux l'ont été!). Je suis aussi très sensible au packaging des produits, et je suis dingue des marques Urban Decay, Too Faced et Hard Candy! Encore une fois on est loin des préjugés qui disent que le maquillage non testé est fade, sans couleurs, un peu comme celui que l'on trouve en magasin bio (malgré qu'il ne soient pas tous comme ça, Couleur Caramel ont de très belles couleurs). Ma trousse de toilette est de Fluff, une créatrice qui fait des objets inspirés des pin-up des années 50's, J'ADORE!

Pour le visage:
1 - Poudre Too Faced
2- Crème de jour Le Petit Olivier
3- Huile démaquillante Logona
4- Palette de poche d'ombres à paupières, brillants à lèvre et fars à joues Urban Decay
5- Stick couvrant Stila
6- Fond de teint liquide Stila
7- Fond de teint liquide Urban Decay

Pour les yeux:
8- Anti-cernes Stila
9- Ombres à paupières Urban Decay
10- Ombres à paupières Hard Candy
11- Eye Liner Urban Decay
12- Poudre à paupières Urban Decay
13- Base de fard à paupières Urban Decay
14- Mascara Stila
15- Convertible eye color Stila
16- Crayon pour les yeux Urban Decay

Pour les lèvres:
17- Rouge a lèvre Rouge Urban Decay
18- Gloss perlé brillant Stila
19- Big Fatty Lip Plumper Urban Decay

Pour le corps:
20- Parfum Stella Mc Cartney
21- Déodorant Weleda au citrus
22- Gel douche Le Petit Olivier aux extraits de verveine et citron
23- Gel douche hors des sentiers battus Vagabond de Lush
24-Dentifrice Weleda

Pour les cheveux:
25- Serum réparateur pointes abîmés René Furterer
26- Shampooing au Marron d'inde Weleda
27- Mousse fixante volume & brillance Lavera
28- Spray Laque volume & brillance Lavera
29- Laque de finition, fixation forte (+ un format de poche en cadeau) René Furterer

Autres:
30- Trousse de toilette Fluff

Fluff: Chez la chaise longue, 18, rue des trois conils à Bordeaux ou sur internet
René Furterer: En pharmacie
Lavera: Magasin Bio et pharmacie
Le Petit Olivier: Grandes surfaces
Weleda: Pharmacie et magasin bio
Urban Decay: Chez Sephora
Too Faced: Chez Sephora
Hard Candy: Sur internet, et trouvable via ebay.com
Stila: Chez Sephora à Paris :Ils viennent tout juste d'arrêter de distribuer en province
Stella Mc Cartney: Chez Sephora

University Vet Quits Over Animal Treatment
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Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world.Care2.com send We hate spam. We do not sell or share the email addresses you provide.186 commentsThe University of Wisconsin has been accused of bullying a senior veterinarian into resigning after he spoke out against animal welfare abuses at their research facility.

UW has been cited over twenty times for violations of the Animal Welfare Act in the past year and a half, and its consistent noncompliance with even the bare minimum of standards imposed by the AWA has been a source of criticism, both from within the university and without.

From within the university, Dr. Richard "Jim" Brown has raised concerns about the welfare of the animals in the school's labs. Brown was a senior program veterinarian at the university's Research Animal Resource Center, where he says he was bullied and retaliated against for raising such concerns.

Brown quit earlier this month after over five years on the job, and called his resignation a "coercive termination," saying he made many enemies at the RARC for constantly raising concerns about animals in their facilities that weren't being properly cared for.

Dr. Brown isn't an animal rights activist, but can see that the university is pulling in enormous amounts of money and isn't using the funding to fulfill the promise made to the public that the animals used for experimentation are "well-cared for." The University of Wisconsin receives over one billion dollars annually for research.

The problem here is obvious: that even in the most prestigious and well-funded research facilities in the developed world, the animals are denied proper medical care, and their needs for food and water are neglected, all while being subjected to what which would be called torture if it were done to a human. And if anyone tries to raise an alarm about it, they are told - as Jim Brown was - that "silence was a condition of continued employment."

Animal testing is more than just a scientific farce and inhuman torture, it's also big business. A billion dollars a year in research funds means a lot of people have a vested interest in seeing the continuation of vivisection at UW, no matter the cost in animal life. Just like every other industry that exploits, tortures, and murders animals, the bottom line is the only concern.

Jim Brown contacted me in regard to this story, and he referred to animal testing as "expensive, time-consuming, misleading and addictive," and said that the lure of research funds will keep animal testing going until the government mandates non-animal research in laboratories.

The solution to these problems isn't complicated, but it is daunting. We have to end all animal testing forever.

More regulation or stricter consequences will not solve the problem. If these facilities cannot meet the laughably minimum standards in place now, it is obviously a sign of a broader and more serious problem: that animals can never be treated with respect and compassion as long as they are viewed as the inanimate property of humans to be used for whatever frivolous purpose we see fit.

To end the greed, the bullying, the scientific regression, and the torture and murder of innocent animals, there is no other way but to end vivisection altogether.

Scientist Protests Animal Testing
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Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world.Care2.com send We hate spam. We do not sell or share the email addresses you provide.213 commentsProtestors gathered at the Society for Neuroscience Convention in San Diego Saturday the 13th to voice their discontent with the state of animal testing in the neuroscience community.

About 32,000 people attended the convention in San Diego. Protestors numbered around 30.

Among the protestors was a neuroscientist named Dr. Lawrence Hansen of UCSD. He stood outside of the convention center in his lab coat holding a sign showing a monkey with a probe attached to its brain.

Dr. Hansen is among a growing number of professionals in the medical and scientific fields with serious misgivings about the legitimacy of vivisection. A recent survey showed that 82% of European physicians worry that information from animal tests may not be applicable to humans.

Many, however, don't see the whole picture. Many scientists may have misgivings, but they see the situation as a kind of balance between risk and reward, between the harm they do and the potential benefits for humanity they might achieve. Dr. Hansen wrote an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about vivisection wherein he condemns some animal tests, but says others aren't so bad.

The truth is that vivisection isn't a discussion about what is best for humans, and taking an ends-justifies-the-means approach to medical research leads us down a slippery slope. I can make myself richer by robbing another person, but that doesn't make it acceptable.

No more acceptable is the process of torturing animals in the hopes that eventually, if we kill enough of them, under the right circumstances, with the right tools, we will eventually learn something that might be relevant to animal medicine, which more often than not, doesn't even correspond to human physiology.

It isn't a matter of how much we have to gain, it's a matter of right and wrong. We can no longer guide our scientific and medical policy solely on self-interest. The safeguards to secure animal welfare in laboratories are irrelevant. As long as we think that an animal's life is expendable if it might possibly benefit us in the long term, we will be capable of greater and greater cruelty.

Scientists like Lawrence Hansen have already seen the scientific shortcomings of vivisection. What is needed however, is for the medical community to become moral vanguards by rejecting all animal testing unconditionally.

By refusing to torture animals we can not only augment the development of alternative methods of testing, which will prove to be more accurate in relation to human physiology because they don't rely on biological information from non-humans, but we can begin to break away from the paradigm of self-interest and cruelty in our culture.

June 15, 2010

University of Wisconsin To Hold Animal Testing Forums

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Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world.Care2.com send We hate spam. We do not sell or share the email addresses you provide.122 commentsThe University of Wisconsin-Madison is planning to hold monthly forums on its animal research programs.

Ostensibly the purpose of the forums is to open dialogue, inform the public, and ease tensions between groups on campus who have opposing viewpoints on the issue. The subject of animal testing on the UMW campus has been a source of contention.

It seems unlikely that scientists who make their living torturing animals truly want the public to know exactly what happens in their laboratories. The picture the scientists paint in the forums will likely be the same rose-tinted picture we always receive from vivisectors: animals who are well-cared for, lovingly tended, and gently probed for the cure for cancer.

One can only hope the opposing views expressed in the forum will shed more light on the true nature of animal testing, the torture, the scientific farce, the misery, and the death.

It's likely these forums are in response to the fact that the animal research facility at UMW has been cited over twenty times in the past year for violating the Animal Welfare Act. These forums are undoubtedly a part of some kind of PR "damage control" strategy, a chance for these scientists to try and shape the public opinion on the issue.

The facility at UMW has been cited for expired medications, cockroach infested holding rooms, dirty operating rooms, vomiting animals, dirty air vents, animals who were struggling to breath, and not cleaning up after animals, thus leaving their rooms smelling of urine.

One of the most telling violations was that in many studies there was no documentation scientists even looked for, or considered, alternatives to a test that could be painful for an animal.

Even people who think animal testing is worthwhile would be shocked to know that scientists don't even look for a non-painful alternative.

Every time a facility is cited for an animal welfare violation, every time an animal dies for research that provides no meaningful scientific knowledge, every time a scientist subjects an animal to cruel testing when there is an alternative, we see even more clearly that those whose profession is to torture animals do not care about the well-being or lives of animals or even humans.

Their only concern is securing their funding. UMW receives upwards of $300 million a year to experiment on animals. Animal experimentation is an over $100 billion a year industry worldwide.

The first forum at UMW will occur in November. I can only hope the scientists' plan backfires and people learn the horrible truth about animal experimentation.

November 23, 2010

The Vivisection Scam (VIDEO) : http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/the-vivisection-scam/

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Care2 is the largest and most trusted information and action site for people who care to make a difference in their lives and the world.Care2.com send We hate spam. We do not sell or share the email addresses you provide.191 commentsEvery year, millions upon millions of primates, cats, dogs, pigs, rabbits, rodents and a myriad of other living creatures are held against their will and tested on in the most inhumane ways, without any regard to their well-being.

In these hidden laboratories, innocent animals are dissected, suffocated, starved, exposed to radiation, shocked, isolated, blinded, injected with lethal drugs, forced to inhale tobacco smoke and consume alcohol and drugs, given heart attacks, have their limbs severed and are forced to endure countless other tortures to "serve the purpose of science".

Vivisection is a scam. It is unethical, unnecessary and unreliable. It is used greatly to pad the pockets of these ruthless animal abusers. Dr. Ray Greek, an anti-animal testing physician states, "Animal experimentation is not necessary. It is expensive. It is inaccurate. It is misleading. It consumes limited resources. And further, it is detrimental to the very species it professes to be working to help -- humankind." (Sacred Cows and Golden Geese, pg 223)

Up to 90% of test results gained through animal experimentation are literally thrown away because they're found to be inapplicable to humans. 88% of doctors agree this practice is often misleading due to anatomical and physiological differences between species. Had animal test results been heeded, aspirin, penicillin, insulin and vital cancer treatments would never have been made accessible to the public.

Charles Mayo, physician and founder of the prestigious Mayo Clinic was quoted as saying, "I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil." (New York Daily News Mar. 13, 1961)

Even if testing on animals did yield consistent, relevant results, nothing justifies the absolutely savage abuse these animals endure at the hands of unfeeling humans. Don't support animal exploitation in any form, for any purpose. Buy 100% cruelty-free products.

15 janvier 2008

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SANTE VISAGE - Lotus & Thé blanc
SADEMAQ SANTE Visage, lait démaquillant lotus & thé blanc,100 ml
SATONIQ SANTE Visage, tonique pour le visage lotus & thé blanc, 100 ml
SAVEL SANTE Visage, gel-fluide hydratant "velours" lotus & thé blanc, 40 ml
SASOI SANTE Visage, crème-fluide hydratante "soie" lotus & thé blanc, 40 ml
SAMINE SANTE Visage, fluide hydratant teinté "bonne mine" lotus & thé blanc, 40 ml
SARELAX SANTE Visage, masque relaxant lotus & thé blanc, 60 ml (8 sachets de 7,5ml)
SAGOMM SANTE Visage, crème gommage lotus & thé blanc, 60 ml (8 sachets de 7,5ml)

SANTE - Beurres de soin
SAMANG SANTE Beurre de mangue, 50 ml
SACAO SANTE Beurre de cacao, 50 ml
SAKARI SANTE Beurre de karité, 50 ml

SANTE - Natural Basics
NABALAI SANTE Natural Basics, lait nettoyant 3 en 1 olive bio + citron vert, 150 ml
NABAHYD SANTE Natural Basics, crème hydratante argousier bio + papaye, 50 ml
NABASOIN SANTE Natural Basics, crème de soin argousier bio + ginkgo, 50 ml
NABAGELD SANTE Natural Basics, gel douche olive bio + citron vert, 200 ml
NABALAICO SANTE Natural Basics, lait pour le corps olive bio + gingembre, 200 ml
NABADEO SANTE Natural Basics, déo hamamélis bio + citron vert, 150 ml
NABASHABRI SANTE Natural Basics, shampooing brillance lait de coco + orange bio,200 ml
NABASHAVIT SANTE Natural Basics, shampooing vitalisant pamplemousse + olive bio, 200 ml
NABAGELDFAM SANTE Natural Basics, gel douche gingembre + pêche, 600 ml
NABASHAFAM SANTE Natural Basics, shampooing lemongrass + kiwi, 600 ml
NABAMAI SANTE Natural Basics, crème mains olive bio + gingembre,100 ml

SANTE HOMME
SAHOMMOU SANTE Homme, mousse à raser, 150 ml
SAHOMLOT SANTE Homme, lotion après-rasage,100 ml
SAHOMFLUI SANTE Homme, fluide hydratant visage 2-en-1, 50 ml
SAHOMGELD SANTE Homme, gel douche corps & cheveux, 200 ml
SAHOMDEO SANTE Homme, spray déodorant, 150 ml

SANTE CHEVEUX - shampooings & coiffage
SASHABRI SANTE Shampooing brillance jojoba, 200 ml
SASHAARG SANTE Shampooing argile blanche antipelliculaire, 200 ml
SAMOUSSOIN SANTE Mousse-soin, régénération naturelle, 150 ml
SAPARSHA SANTE Après-shampooing et masque-express mangue 2 in 1, 150 ml
SAGELCOIF SANTE Gel coiffant, fixation naturelle,100 ml

SANTE CORPS - Wave Lines
SAGELDGRE SANTE Wave Lines, gel douche green wave, 200 ml
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SAGELDSUN SANTE Wave Lines, gel douche sun wave, 200 ml
SAGELRED SANTE Wave Lines, gel douche red wave, 200 ml
SADEOSPRAY SANTE Wave Lines, déodorant spray fresh wave, 75 ml
SADEOROLL SANTE Wave Lines, déodorant 'roll on' mild wave, 50 ml

SANTE CORPS - déodorants Cristal d'Alun
SALUNSPRAY SANTE déodorant -spray cristal d’alun, 100ml
SALUNROLL SANTE déodorant roll-on cristal d’alun, 50 ml
SALUN SANTE déodorant cristal d’alun, 100g

SANTE MAQUILLAGE - fonds de teint & poudres
sapou10 SANTE Maquillage, poudre compacte transparente 10
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SANTE MAQUILLAGE - mascaras
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SANTE MAQUILLAGE - fards à paupières "trio" boitier
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SANTE - VERNIS à ongles sans formol, toluène ou colophane
saver0 SANTE Vernis à ongles, transparent 00, 10 ml
saver1 SANTE Vernis à ongles, cool red 01
saver10 SANTE Vernis à ongles, warm red 10
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saver14 SANTE Vernis à ongles, brillant cacao 14
saver23 SANTE Vernis à ongles, brillant brown 26
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saver53 SANTE Vernis à ongles, brillant rose 53
saver55 SANTE Vernis à ongles, brillant lavender 55
saver04 SANTE Vernis à ongles, brillant aubergine 04
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saver40 SANTE Vernis à ongles, pastell rose 40
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saver56 SANTE Vernis à ongles, shimmery mauve 56
sadiver SANTE Dissolvant à ongles bio, 100 ml
sadur SANTE Vernis durcisseur d'ongles 10ml

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December 23, 2010

With your support, PETA achieved many victories in 2010, some of which are shown in this video.

However, we still have a lot of work to do. For example, countless animals are right now facing death in cruel and pointless experiments in laboratories across the country. That's why I want to ask you to think of these individuals as you make your final, tax-deductible contributions this year.

Your compassion is changing the lives of countless individual animals around the world, including those who would otherwise face a life of pain, terror, and isolation inside a laboratory.

PETA's work has spared millions of animals—including dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, pigs, birds, mice, and rats—from suffering and dying in laboratories. We depend on the generosity of donors just like you to make this lifesaving work possible. Please consider a tax-deductible, year-end donation to PETA today to help animals everywhere and stop more nightmarish experiments in 2011 and beyond.

If you can give a gift of $25 or more, I'd be pleased to send you a complimentary copy of our 2011 "Rescued" calendar. This calendar features individual animals who got a second chance at life, thanks to PETA's work.

Together, we're building momentum—and now is the time to work even harder to put an end to animal experimentation. In recent weeks, we've received the following great news:


NASA canceled its plans to irradiate dozens of monkeys in cruel radiation tests after a year of vigorous campaigning and more than 100,000 e-mails and calls from PETA supporters.


Professional Laboratory Services shut its doors and released all its animals (more than 200 total) just one week after PETA released the findings from its shocking investigation of the North Carolina animal testing laboratory.


The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development changed the requirements (pending formal approval) for a common toxicity test as a result of PETA's efforts. The move will save a minimum of 1,200 animals—and as many as 2,400—every time this frequently required test is conducted.


As encouraging as these recent victories are, we still have much more to do. By making a secure online gift to PETA right now, you can help us stop animal experimentation and continue our efforts to halt the suffering and abuse of all animals.

Your generosity is helping PETA win landmark cruelty-to-animals cases, dry up funding for animal testing programs, and bring ghastly experiments on animals to a screeching halt. You've helped us convince more than a thousand companies, including some of the world's largest corporations, to swear off animal tests forever. This is the difference that only friends like you can make.

Please help us bring about more groundbreaking changes for animals in 2011 by making a year-end donation to PETA today. Thank you for being such a powerful voice for animals who would otherwise suffer in silence.

December 30, 2010

Support The Pet Safety And Protection Act

Under current laws, Class B Dealers and unlicensed animal dealers aren't held accountable for where they obtain the dogs and cats that they sell. It's a dangerous loophole as some dealers have been found trolling the classifieds for free pet ads, falsifying records to keep an animal's true origins unknown, and even stealing pets from their owners' yards. Some are then resold to unsuspecting families, but many more are being sold off to research laboratories.
The U.S. Pet Safety And Protection Act would provide a much-needed safety net for pet owners, prohibiting these dealers from selling dogs and cats to research labs. Tell Congress to prioritize this bill in 2011 and send it to President Obama to be signed into law.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=PetSafetyAct&ThirdPartyClicks=ETA_123010_PetSafetyAct_F

December 1st, 2010

Monkeys Dosed with Narcotics: Addiction Experiment Documents Released


The New York State Supreme Court recently granted PCRM access to documents detailing addiction experiments on monkeys conducted by researchers with Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Last month, the court ordered state officials to comply with a request from PCRM for 10 years of records detailing drug and alcohol addiction experiments on nonhuman primates by three Psychiatric Institute employees. PCRM filed the lawsuit after state officials withheld information requested under New York’s Freedom of Information Law.

“The court’s decision is a major victory for all New York taxpayers,” says PCRM general counsel Dan Kinburn. “These researchers have spent millions of dollars in public funds to conduct unnecessary experiments on primates, and New York residents have a right to know what they have been paying for.”

PCRM scientists say the experiments conducted by these scientists, which involve dosing primates with opioid drugs, marijuana, and alcohol, raise scientific and ethical concerns because nonhuman primates are not suitable models for studies of human drug addiction. One researcher named in the lawsuit has been conducting animal addiction experiments for at least three decades without apparent benefits for patients.

“Nonhuman primates do not choose to use drugs and alcohol—they have to be trained to do so,” says John Pippin, M.D., PCRM’s senior medical adviser. “They do not exhibit the complex physical and psychological factors that drive human beings to addiction, and they suffer both physically and mentally when confined in laboratory cages. All this makes them completely unsuitable subjects for addiction research.”

To learn more about alternatives to animal testing and experiments, visit PCRM.org/Research.

http://www.pcrm.org/newsletter/dec10/addiction.html

dECEMBER 1, 2010

University of Pittsburgh Slow to Stop Killing Pigs for Trauma Training





The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said it would phase out using and killing pigs in its trauma training course. But more pigs were recently killed.

In October, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) agreed to stop using pigs in its trauma training course following a complaint PCRM filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture stating that the animal use was a violation of the Animal Welfare Act. But last month, pigs were killed at the end of the ATLS course.

Prior to the course, a group of Pennsylvania physicians co-signed a letter to Elizabeth Concordia, executive vice president of UPMC, speaking out against the school’s use of live animals for trauma training.

“Recent announcements by UPMC stating that the institution’s use of pigs in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses would end “in a few months” are promising, but that is not soon enough,” wrote the physicians. “We urge you to end this cruel and unnecessary animal use before this week’s course to ensure that UPMC offers the best educational experience possible.”

ATLS courses at UPMC use live, anesthetized pigs to teach procedures designed to respond to acute trauma injuries. These procedures include cricothyroidotomy (an incision in the neck to relieve an obstructed airway), pericardiocentesis (removing fluid from the sac that surrounds the heart), and chest tube insertion (draining blood, fluid, or air to allow the lung to fully expand). At the end of each course, the pigs are killed.

Of the 12 medical centers in Pennsylvania, UPMC is the last one still using live animals in its ATLS courses.

In part because of PCRM’s work educating ATLS programs on superior nonanimal alternatives, 95 percent of U.S. and Canadian facilities that provide training have ended their use of animals in favor of lifelike human patient simulators. Simulators such as the TraumaMan System are approved by the American College of Surgeons, the body that oversees the courses.

To help save animals at UPMC and the handful of ATLS programs that continue to use and kill animals, visit PCRM.org/Research.

http://pcrm.org/newsletter/dec10/pittsburgh.html

October 2, 2010

Animal Abuse: Southwest National Primate Research Center’s Disturbing History





Where does the National Institutes of Health want to send the Alamogordo chimpanzees? If the federal government’s plans go forward, these incredibly intelligent animals will go from semi-retirement in New Mexico to a facility that recently conducted a necropsy on a baboon who was still alive. But PCRM’s federal complaint seeks to halt NIH’s planned transfer of nearly 200 federally owned chimpanzees to the Southwest National Primate Research Center.

"Southwest staff was 10 minutes into a necropsy of a male baboon before discovering that the animal was still alive. This incident highlights the widespread lack of proper animal care at a facility that currently houses more than 3,000 nonhuman primates,” the doctors and scientists argue in their complaint. “Not only did staff fail to identify whether the baboon was dead before beginning the necropsy, but the committee charged with overseeing all aspects of animal care at Southwest—the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)—failed to report the incident to facility administrators.”

The legal petition filed with Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, invokes the Chimpanzee Health Improvement Maintenance and Protection (CHIMP) Act, enacted to ensure that chimpanzees used in experiments for many years can be retired to sanctuaries. Many Alamogordo chimpanzees are elderly, have been used repeatedly for invasive procedures, and deserve a peaceful retirement, PCRM’s complaint says. For example, Flo, Guy, and James were born in 1957, 1959, and 1960, respectively.

“There can be no scientific, legal, or ethical justification for returning a 50-year-old chimpanzee to laboratory experiments,” says John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C., senior medical and research adviser for PCRM. “More than five decades of experiments have shown us that chimpanzees are poor models for researching human diseases. Are we such slow learners that we now return to these outdated methods?”

Dr. Pippin and 11 other authorities, including Harvard emeritus professor Richard Wrangham, Ph.D., and University of New Mexico professor John Gluck, Ph.D., co-signed the petition.

The petition also describes dozens of other disturbing violations at the Southwest National Primate Research Center where the Alamogordo chimpanzees are scheduled to be transferred by the end of the year. The center has been cited for at least 30 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, the law that sets minimum standards of care for animals in laboratories. Recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspections detail:

a researcher who planned to perform multiple cesarean sections on the same animal without any justification given to the USDA;
inadequate housing and monitoring that allowed a young rhesus macaque to escape his enclosure at night when temperatures were below freezing; the following morning, the animal was found “moribund” and was euthanized likely due to the results of hypothermia; and
multiple baboons who recently escaped their enclosures while being moved, injuring employees.
The mothers of some Alamogordo chimpanzees now live in a sanctuary in Washington State—Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest—and have come to the attention of Sen. Maria Cantwell. Sen. Cantwell recently introduced the Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA), S. 3694, which would advance medical research by phasing out wasteful and misleading chimpanzee experiments and releasing federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. A parallel House bill, H.R. 1326, has gained significant momentum and now has 151 co-sponsors.

Urge the federal government to retire the Alamogordo chimpanzees. Then ask Congress to pass GAPA at PCRM.org GAPA.

http://pcrm.org/newsletter/oct10/alamogordo.html

October 3, 2010

Comedian Carol Leifer Supports Cruelty-Free Charities in New Radio Ad




Carol Leifer finds humor in everything—except not knowing where her money goes when she donates to a health charity. That is, until she discovered the Humane Charity Seal of Approval. In “Give and Let Live,” a new radio public service announcement, she explains how this PCRM program helps donors find charities that provide vital care and advance research without using animals.

Leifer, a stand-up comic and author who has written for such iconic television shows as Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, and the Academy Awards, urges donors to “Give and Let Live” by supporting compassionate charities committed to providing vital services and care to patients or advancing research without the use of animals.

“Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases,” says Leifer in the PSA. For Leifer and many others who donate to charities, a key concern is whether their donations might fund animal experiments.

An estimated 115 to 127 million animals are currently used in experimental research worldwide. But a growing number of scientists believe that animal experimentation is scientifically flawed for physiological, genetic, and procedural reasons. Answers to the most pressing human health problems—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and others—lie in understanding human cells, human genes, and, in some cases, human habits.

As Leifer explains, the Humane Charity Seal of Approval is the easiest way for donors to identify humane health charities. With a rapidly expanding and diversifying list of approved charities, the Humane Charity Seal of Approval is leading the way into a new era of humane giving.

The comprehensive list of humane health charities, as well as a wealth of information on the latest breakthroughs in research without the use of animals, is available at HumaneSeal.org.

To listen to the “Give and Let Live” PSA, visit HumaneSeal.org.

October 4, 2010

BOYCOTTEZ LE THE LIPTON QUI TESTE SUR LES ANIMAUX
SIGNEZ LA PETITION DE PETA ICI:

https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3487

des tests horribles pratiqués sur des rats, souris, cochons, lapins, pour cette parque de thé, boycottez et pensez à passer aux produits bio, qui eux, ne testent pas sur les animaux!

Le thé Lipton est testé sur les animaux
26 novembre 2010


« Adopter un comportement respectueux et responsable envers les personnes avec lesquelles nous travaillons, les communautés que nous touchons et l’environnement dans lequel nous évoluons. »

Voici le discours que tient sur son site l’entreprise Unilever, qui est une des plus puissantes multinationales dans le monde.

Parmi les marques, on trouve les glaces Magnum et les soupes Knorr, le dentifrice Signal ou bien… les thés Lyons et Lipton.

En terme de vente de biens de ce genre (dit de consommation courante), Unilever est le numéro trois mondial. Un véritable monstre produisant des biens à une échelle industrielle, un de ces grands groupes capitalistes ultra-puissants et… ultra-morbides.

Car le thé, oui le thé, rien d’autre que le thé, oui le thé Lipton est testé sur les animaux. Il n’y a pas de quoi se dire : « impossible d’être vegan », mais bien au contraire : il faut être vegan et tout changer!

Les tests sur les animaux organisés pour le thé Lipton visent à permettre de se positionner comme étant « bon pour la santé. » Toute cette idéologie fausse et magouilleuse s’appuie sur des tests relevant du grand n’importe quoi – et du crime – qui permettent d’établir ce discours.

Ici, des lapins ont été nourris de manière très grasse, de manière à ce que leur taux de cholestérol soit trop haut, afin que leurs artères aient des dépôts de lipides. Puis, du thé est mis dans leur eau. Ensuite, on coupe la tête des lapins, et on étudie le cadavre pour voir le résultat…

Des souris transgéniques ont également été utilisées ; ces souris ont été manipulées génétiquement pour avoir des maladies inflammatoires chroniques intestinales. Elles aussi ont eu du thé à boire, puis ont été tuées.
Des rats ont été pareillement utilisés : ils ont du manger avec un taux élevé de fructose (le sucre des fruits) afin que leur cerveau soit endommagé, alors que d’autres avaient un tube allant à leur estomac pour leur fournir des ingrédients du thé modifiés par la radioactivité… Évidemment, tous ces animaux ont été tués eux aussi.

Enfin, des porcelets ont été également utilisés : on les a exposé à des toxines E coli afin qu’ils aient la diarrhée ; on leur a ensuite ôté les intestins alors qu’ils vivaient encore…

Ceci n’est pas de la science-fiction. Ceci est la réalité. Soit on comprend Gaïa et on met un terme à ces horreurs, soit on s’intègre à une machine de mort.

Une mort sans limites. Que des produits tels que de la lessive soient testés, est « compréhensible » dans la logique des capitalistes qui exploitent des animaux rabaissés au rang de testeurs forcés.

Mais que des produits banals comme le thé, soit testé est logique aussi, c’est juste la continuité d’une logique assassine!

L’humanité pourrait être végane. Mais ceux qui exploitent, oppriment, dominent, n’y ont aucun intérêt. Leur intérêt est d’aller plus loin dans la destruction… et il faut s’y opposer!

http://laterredabord.fr/?p=7623

23 décembre 2010

Stop thé Lipton cruel sur les animaux!
Avant de prendre votre prochaine gorgée de thé, vérifiez l’étiquette sur la boîte à thé, car vous pourriez découvrir que vous buvez une tasse de cruauté envers les animaux. La compagnie derrière thé Lipton a fait des tests (et payer d’autres pour tester) le thé ,une boisson qui a été consommée pendant des milliers d’années. Le géant du thé a causé aux animaux la souffrance et la mort tout simplement pour faire des allégations sur ses produits de commercialisation du thé et des ingrédients. Pas une des expériences que la société a menées était légalement nécessaires pour fabriquer la boisson, et les régulateurs ont déclaré que les expérimentations animales ne sont pas suffisantes pour prouver une allégation de santé sur un produit.
Dans ces tests cruels et douloureux, des lapins, des souris, des rats, et les porcelets ont été torturés, puis tués par décapitation ou suffocation, entre autres méthodes. Voici plus de détails horribles sur ce qui s’est passé pour les animaux qui ont été utilisés dans des expériences de l’entreprise:
Les lapins ont été nourris avec une haute teneur en gras, chargée de régime riche en cholestérol, conduisant au durcissement extrême des artères. Ils ont ensuite été abreuvés de thé pour voir si la boisson touche les lésions qui ont formé sur les animaux » le durcissement des artères . Après l’expérience, les lapins ont été décapités. les Souris ont été amenées à souffrir d’une douloureuse inflammation de l’intestin et ont été nourris avec des ingrédients de thé afin de voir si celui-ci a un effet sur leur condition. Après l’essai, les expérimentateurs ont tué les souris en les étouffant ou en leur brisant le cou.
Les rats ont été forcés de manger une alimentation riche en sucre, puis le thé leur a été administré pour voir s’il avait un impact sur les lésions cérébrales. D’autres rats ont vu leur paroi abdominale perforée et ont été nourris par des ingrédients de thé marqués radioactivement à travers un tube dans l’estomac afin d’examiner l’absorption du thé dans le corps. Ensuite, ils ont été tués, congelés à l’azote liquide, et écrasés.
Les porcelets ont été exposés à E. coli ou aux toxines et ensuite le thé leur a été introduit afin de voir s’il améliorait la perte de liquide et de diarrhée. Dans le cadre des essais, les expérimentateurs coupent les intestins des porcs tandis qu’ils sont encore en vie. Les porcelets sont tués après toutes ces souffrances difficilement imaginables Les méthodes de recherche sans cruauté sont disponibles et utilisées par d’autres producteurs de boissons de premier plan dans le monde entier. Nous avons besoin de vous joindre à nous pour dire aux fabricants de Lipton de laisser tomber ses test cruels thé sur les animaux et qu’ils se penchent sur les méthodes non animales.
Envoyer un e-mail à Dave Lewis , dave.lewis @ unilever.com, président de Unilever Americas (société mère de Lipton), et poliment lui demander d’arrêter les essais pour le thé et les ingrédients du thé sur les animaux. Si votre message ne peut pas être livré, s’il vous plaît e-mail de l’entreprise en utilisant son formulaire de contact .
Exemple e-mail texte est fourni ci-dessous pour vous aider à rédiger votre message.
Objet:
Les expériences Stop thé cruels sur les animaux
Conseil:
J’ai été choqué d’apprendre que votre entreprise thé Lipton, exercent encore des expériences sur les animaux simplement pour faire des allégations sur la santé par le biais du thé et de ses ingrédients. Dans les expériences, les porcelets ont été infectés par E. coli et avaient leurs intestins coupés en morceaux alors que les animaux étaient encore en vie, les rats ont été nourris avec un régime riche en sucre, les obligeant à développer des lésions cérébrales, et les lapins ont été nourris avec un régime riche en cholestérol-charge, les obligeant à développer des artères durcies, puis étaient décapités.
Pourtant les États-Unis et les organismes internationaux de réglementation n’exigent pas des fabricants d’aliments et de boissons qu’ils effectuent des tests sur les animaux.
Les fabricants de Honest Tea, Twinings, thé Stash, Luzianne thé, et d’autres sociétés ont tous envoyé une confirmation écrite à l’association PETA qu’ils ne testent pas leurs thés ou des ingrédients issus de ces derniers sur les animaux.
S’il vous plaît arrêter ces tests cruels et obsolètes et instituer une politique de lutte contre la conduite et le financement des tests obsolètes sur les animaux pour le thé. Je n’achèterai plus les produits du thé Lipton et ne soutiendrai que les marques de thé qui ne réalisent pas de tests sur les animaux, jusqu’à ce que votre entreprise s’arrête de tester les ingrédients du thé et le thé sur les animaux.Thank you and best regards. (votre nom et pays pour plus d’impact)



http://michellechagnon36.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/action-dites-a-lipton-de-stopper-ces-cruautes-sur-les-animaux-merci-pour-eux-animal-et-ethique-sur-lepost-fr/

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ACTION. dites à LIPTON de stopper ces cruautés sur les animaux…. Merci pour eux. – Animal et Ethique sur LePost.fr.

16 décembre 2010

Avant de déguster votre prochaine gorgée de thé, vérifiez l'étiquette sur la boîte à thé ou sur la bouteille, car vous pourriez découvrir que vous buvez une tasse de cruauté envers les animaux.

La compagnie Lipton a fait pratiquer des tests sur les animaux.

Le géant du thé a causé aux animaux d'horribles souffrances et décès tout simplement pour connaître l'impact de ses produits et leurs ingrédients sur la santé. Pas une des expériences que la société a mené n'était légalement nécessaire pour les fabricants de boissons, et les régulateurs ont déclaré que les expérimentations animales ne sont pas suffisantes pour prouver quoique ce soit.

Dans ces tests cruels et douloureux, des lapins, des souris, des rats et des porcelets ont été torturés, puis tués par décapitation et suffocation, entre autres méthodes.

Voici plus de détails horribles sur ce qui s'est passé pour les animaux qui ont été utilisés dans des expériences de l'entreprise :[/


Les lapins ont été nourris avec un régime riche en cholestérol, conduisant au durcissement extrême des artères. Ils ont ensuite été nourris de thé pour voir si cette boisson pourrait réduire les lésions formées sur les animaux . Après l'expérience, les lapins ont eut leur tête coupée.

Les souris élevées affligées d'une douloureuse inflammation de l'intestin ont été nourries avec des ingrédients de thé afin de voir si le thé aurait un effet sur leur condition. Après l'essai, les expérimentateurs ont tué les souris en les étouffant ou en leur brisant le cou.

Les rats forcés de consommer une alimentation riche en sucre, ont dû ingérer du thé pour voir si cette boisson pourrait protéger contre les lésions cérébrales induites par le sucre.

D'autres rats ont vu leur paroi abdominale perforée et ont été nourris de thé marqué radioactivement à travers un tube introduit dans l'estomac, afind'examiner l'absorption du thé dans le corps. Ensuite, ils ont été tués, congelés à l'azote liquide, et écrasés.

Les porcelets ont été exposés à E. coli ou toxines et ensuite forcer d'avaler du thé afin de voir si ce breuvage pourrait prévenir la diarrhée. Dans le cadre des essais, les expérimentateurs ont extrait les intestins des porcelets tandis que les animaux étaient encore VIVANTS. Les porcelets ont alors été tués.

Des méthodes modernes indemnes de cruauté existent et sont déjà utilisées par d'autres producteurs de boissons de premier plan dans le monde entier.

Nous avons besoin de vous joindre à nous pour dire aux fabricants de thé Lipton de laisser tomber ses tests cruels sur les animaux concernant le thé.

S'il vous plaît, prenez un moment pour signer cette pétition pour exhorter les fabricants de thé Lipton à mettre fin à cette cruauté et à rejoindre Honest Tea, Twinings, thé Stash, Luzianne thé, et d'autres entreprises qui ne pratiquent pas d'expériences sur animaux.

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR SIGNER LA PETITION

Merci pour ces animaux martyrs

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30 novembre 2010

Les Thés Lipton test sur les animaux



La compagnie multimillionnaire ( en livre sterling ) se cachant derrière PG tips, Lyons et Lipton ( PL&L ) est à l'origine de la souffrance et de la mort d'animaux dans le but de pouvoir mettre en avant les effets bénéfiques pour la santé de ses thés.

PETA a révélé de nombreux tests cruels que le fabricant des marques PL&L a conduits sur les animaux pour évaluer les effets du thé.


Signez la pétition contre les tests sur les animaux chez Lipton



Lien pétition : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/lipton-tea--stop-animal-experiments/

17 décembre 2010

LIPTON STOP !
Dites aux fabricants de thé Lipton d'arrêter de pratiquer des tests sur animaux !
Avant de déguster votre prochaine gorgée de thé, vérifiez l'étiquette sur la boîte à thé ou sur la bouteille, car vous pourriez découvrir que vous buvez une tasse de cruauté envers les animaux.


La compagnie Lipton a fait pratiquer des tests sur les animaux.


Le géant du thé a causé aux animaux d'horribles souffrances et décès tout simplement pour connaître l'impact de ses produits et leurs ingrédients sur la santé. Pas une des expériences que la société a mené n'était légalement nécessaire pour les fabricants de boissons, et les régulateurs ont déclaré que les expérimentations animales ne sont pas suffisantes pour prouver quoique ce soit.


Dans ces tests cruels et douloureux, des lapins, des souris, des rats et des porcelets ont été torturés, puis tués par décapitation et suffocation, entre autres méthodes...

CLIQUEZ ICI POUR SIGNER LA PETITION

Jeudi 16 décembre 2010

Le thé qui tue.

Dites aux fabricants de thé Lipton d'arrêter de torturer les animaux


Avant de prendre votre prochaine gorgée de thé, vérifiez l'étiquette sur la boîte à thé ou à la bouteille, car vous pourriez découvrir que vous buvez une tasse de cruauté envers les animaux.

La compagnie derrière thés Lipton a fait des tests (et payer d'autres pour tester) du thé une boisson qui a été consommé pendant des milliers d'années sur les animaux .

Le géant de thé a causé la mort d'animaux par d'atroces souffrances . Pas une des expériences que la société a mené était légalement nécessaire pour ce fabricant de boissons, et les régulateurs ont déclaré que les expérimentations animales sont pas suffisantes pour prouver une allégation de santé sur un produit.

Dans ces tests cruels et douloureux, des lapins, des souris, des rats, et les porcelets ont été torturé, puis tué par décapitation et la suffocation, entre autres méthodes. Voici plus de détails horribles sur ce qui s'est passé pour les animaux qui ont été utilisés dans des expériences de l'entreprise:

Les lapins ont été nourris avec une haute teneur en gras, chargé de régime riche en cholestérol, conduisant au durcissement extrême des artères. Ils ont ensuite été nourris de thé pour voir si elle pourrait réduire les lésions qui ont formé sur les animaux »les artères de la. Après l'expérience, lapins tête de la ont été coupés.
Souris élevés pour souffrir d'une douloureuse inflammation de l'intestin, ont été nourris des ingrédients de thé afin de voir si le thé a un effet sur leur condition. Après l'essai, les expérimentateurs ont tué les souris en les étouffant ou se casser le cou.
Rats forcé de manger une alimentation haute du sucre, du thé, et puis ont été donnés aux animaux pour voir si elle pourrait protéger contre les lésions cérébrales induites par le sucre. D'autres rats ont vu leur paroi abdominale perforé et ont été nourris de thé ingrédients marqués radioactivement à travers un tube dans l'estomac afin d'examiner l'absorption de thé dans le corps. Ensuite, ils ont été tués, congelés à l'azote liquide, et écrasé.
Les porcelets ont été exposés à E. coli ou à toxines et ensuite introduit le thé afin de voir si le thé pourrait prévenir la perte de liquide et de la diarrhée. Dans le cadre des essais, les expérimentateurs coupe de porc intestins dehors tandis que les animaux étaient encore en vie. Les porcelets ont alors été tués.
Des méthodes modernes de recherche sans cruauté sont disponibles et utilisées par d'autres producteurs de boissons de premier plan dans le monde entier.

Nous avons besoin de vous pour dire aux fabricants de Lipton de laisser tomber ses actes cruels de tests du thé sur les animaux et de cesser l'utilisation des animaux .

S'il vous plaît prenez un moment pour obliger les fabricants de thé Lipton, pour mettre fin à cette cruauté et de rejoindre Honest Tea, Twinings, thé Stash, Luzianne thé, et d'autres entreprises qui ne font pas des expériences sur les animaux.





https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3487



Je suis écœurée à un point inimaginable.....suis fauchée mais je viens de jeter mes sachets de thé de chez eux au feu.....

N'hésitez pas à diffuser, il faut que cela se sache..

15 novembre 2010

Enlaces sobre "Produits de beauté, hygiène, ménagers tester sans cruauté et écologique" .Produits de beauté, hygiène, ménagers tester sans cruauté et écologique
Vous pouvez répondre à ce questionnaire en répondant à cette question: "Quelle marque souhaiteriez vous trouver ?" "Des marques non testé sur les animaux".
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

SHAC E-Mail Allert against Vivisection Part 1+2
please click on the bellow Link or Copy and Paste it on ur Browser and send the required emails against Vivisection



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january 5, 2011

Animal Shelter Still Betraying Dogs!


A year after PETA's lawsuit was filed, Davis County, Utah, has finally provided PETA with the records of more than 100 cats and dogs betrayed by its animal shelter and sold to the University of Utah to be tormented in cruel and painful experiments.


Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation at the University of Utah, animal shelters in Utah are no longer required to sell dogs and cats to laboratories, and the Davis County shelter has ended the shameful practice. Yet there is one shelter that continues to sentence animals in its care to be tortured and killed: North Utah Valley Animal Shelter (NUVAS).


Please speak up for dogs like Aeris, who is "friendly and sweet," and Chance, who "loves fetch and belly rubs"—both sold to the University of Utah to be used in invasive and deadly experiments. Urge NUVAS to stop betraying the helpless animals trusted to its care!

JANUARY 5, 2011

Laboratory Victims Get Their Due ..
...Posted 12-23-2010
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In response to our January 2010 lawsuit (and with a court date rapidly approaching), Davis County, Utah, has finally agreed to abide by the law and provide PETA with the intake forms and transfer records for the approximately 100 dogs and cats that it's animal shelter callously sold to the University of Utah in 2009 to be tormented in experiments. While Davis County ended this shameful practice earlier this year, these records will show that the homeless dogs and cats who are unfortunate enough to end up cut up and killed in the university's laboratories have names and personalities and are no different than the animals whom many of us consider family and with whom we share our homes. Indeed, some were peoples' lost and surrendered animal companions.

Under the agreement, Davis County will be reimbursing PETA for 50 percent of PETA's legal fees—nearly $18,000.

Since our subsequent undercover investigation at the University of Utah, the state legislature amended the law so that government-operated animal shelters are no longer required to sell dogs and cats to laboratories for use in cruel and deadly experiments upon request. Only one shelter in the state—Lindon's North Utah Valley Animal Shelter (NUVAS)—continues to profit by betraying homeless animals and selling them to the university.

Please take a moment to urge NUVAS to stop stocking the university's laboratories with helpless victims.

JANUARY 5, 2011




To visitors, North Utah Valley Animal Shelter (NUVAS) may seem like a typical safe haven for animals. The facility's intake documents describe dogs as "very cute" and "cuddly" and state that they "love to play fetch" and "enjoy belly rubs"—perhaps reminding you of a loving canine companion you share your home with and consider a member of the family. Tragically, however, these words describe many dogs the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter has sold to the University of Utah for invasive and deadly experiments. Dogs recently purchased from the animal shelter had holes cut into their chests and necks and pacemakers implanted onto their hearts in order to induce irregular heartbeats; the dogs were then killed and dissected.

North Utah Valley Animal Shelter is the only animal shelter in the state of Utah that continues to betray animals in its care and profit from the abuse of these animals in cruel and deadly experiments. Learn about Max, Gracie Lou, and other dogs who were denied a second chance at a loving home, and tell North Utah Valley Animal Shelter to stop its despicable practice of selling dogs and cats for experimentation.





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Taxpayers support animal shelters in the hope that the facilities will help alleviate animal suffering in this world, not contribute to it by treating homeless dogs and cats as cheap laboratory equipment for animal experimenters. I urge you to immediately stop violating the trust of Utah taxpayers and animals and to make the shelter stop releasing dogs and cats to the University of Utah.

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december 30, 2010

Thank you for letting us know your concerns about the use of animal testing. We at Environmental Defense Fund respect the work that animal rights and animal welfare organizations have done over the years to support alternatives to animal testing.EDF itself is working to advance a number of efforts aimed at reducing the need for animal testing and enhancing the development and use of non-animal alternatives to chemical testing and assessment. For example, we are closely following and encouraging progress under the Federal government’s Tox21 initiative. Under this initiative, EPA and several other agencies are working to implement the vision for reducing animal testing that was spelled out in the National Academy of Sciences’ report, Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century. We also are pressing EPA to enhance its reporting system for chemical use and exposure under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Such enhancements will provide more reliable information to allow the agency to better prioritize which chemicals to focus on first in requiring more toxicity data.EDF also is working to ensure maximum access to chemical information already being developed in Europe under the REACH Regulation, to ensure there is no unnecessary or duplicative testing of chemicals. Finally, we strongly support provisions for TSCA reform that would allow and facilitate the use of a variety of types of information to determine chemical safety, not just information derived from new chemical testing.There are two issues that still divide us, I think. The first is whether animal testing continues to be needed. As reflected in recent reports by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the European Commission's Scientific Committee, the state of the science clearly indicates that, unfortunately, testing on a limited number of laboratory animals (rodents, fish, shrimp and earthworms) is still necessary to prevent even greater harm to our ecosystems and the animals and humans that live in them. EDF does not support animal testing except in those cases where it provides information that is critical to understanding and preventing potential harm to humans, animals and the environment; and where there are not yet alternatives accepted by the scientific community. With these concerns in mind, our scientists are working to develop and implement policies that call for animal testing only where necessary.The second divide is whether animal testing is ethically acceptable in situations where it is needed. We respect the values that lead some people to oppose animal testing, and recognize the deeply held conviction of some that humans do not have the right to use living creatures for human purposes, however vital those purposes may be. We admire that position, but we do not share it. As long as (and only as long as) current scientific research indicates that limited animal testing is still necessary to avoid greater harm, we believe that it is ethical. DDT, PCBs, asbestos, and leaded gasoline are just a few examples where more up-front testing would have prevented significant ecological, animal, and human harm.EDF was founded by scientists concerned about animal welfare – specifically the eagles and ospreys that were being harmed by the spraying of the pesticide DDT. Since then, emerging science has only made clearer the fact that animals are among the first and most heavily impacted victims of the large-scale exposure to chemicals that have been allowed to be used without requiring them to be shown to be safe. Our knowledge of the endocrine-disrupting effects of chemicals originated with studies of animals in the wild. Growing evidence indicates that the widespread and increasing deformations and gender-bending effects seen in wild fish and amphibians are the result of chemical exposures. We now know that wildlife in the remotest parts of the Earth carry dangerous levels of persistent substances in their bodies. All of these impacts of under-assessed chemicals affect untold billions or trillions of animals in the wild.EDF continues to work to prevent additional harm to the health of all creatures resulting from exposure to dangerous or inadequately studied chemicals. We will continue to support the development of alternatives to animal testing, and will remain indebted to those who are watching closely to make sure that we do. Sincerely,Fred Krupp
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