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Thank you so much for 2K! We've come so far and we love writing our blog and making videos! Sorry we've been quite inactive lately, it's been so busy!
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Wednesday 20 July 2016
Sunday 3 July 2016
How to Calm Your Pets
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If you haven't seen our most recent post on Instagram, check it out now!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHZQAjSBV08/?taken-by=talk_about_testing
Its all about our dog Tess, when she is scared she gets really stressed and the video is how we calm her down.
We've been researching it for a while, and this method seemed to work!
We put lavender essential oil on the blanket which she was lying on, this relieves stress and makes her sleepy and relaxed. She soon fell asleep after!
We also tried putting on relaxing spa music which actually help her relax aswell!
If any of your pets suffer stress or get scared easily, I really recommend this to you!
Thank you !
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If you haven't seen our most recent post on Instagram, check it out now!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHZQAjSBV08/?taken-by=talk_about_testing
Its all about our dog Tess, when she is scared she gets really stressed and the video is how we calm her down.
We've been researching it for a while, and this method seemed to work!
We put lavender essential oil on the blanket which she was lying on, this relieves stress and makes her sleepy and relaxed. She soon fell asleep after!
We also tried putting on relaxing spa music which actually help her relax aswell!
If any of your pets suffer stress or get scared easily, I really recommend this to you!
Thank you !
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Tuesday 28 June 2016
Animal Testing In China
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Here's some useful information on animal testing in China :)
To date, it’s been compulsory for any company that sells cosmetics in China to conduct tests on animals. Now, the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) is proposing to change the way that some cosmetics products manufactured within China are registered – and these changes could mean that fewer animals will be poisoned in Chinese laboratories.
Here's some useful information on animal testing in China :)
To date, it’s been compulsory for any company that sells cosmetics in China to conduct tests on animals. Now, the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) is proposing to change the way that some cosmetics products manufactured within China are registered – and these changes could mean that fewer animals will be poisoned in Chinese laboratories.
The CFDA’s plan, which is still under review, would shift registration for certain types of cosmetics manufactured in China from the national to the provincial level and would place responsibility for toxicological assessments on the companies, which could choose not to use animals. However, cosmetics manufactured outside the country and so-called “functional cosmetics”, such as skin whiteners, would still be subject to the animal testing requirement.
We are cautiously optimistic that this plan, if it does become law, will be a step towards reducing the suffering of mice, rabbits and other animals in cosmetics testing. At the same time, PETA is concerned that Chinese companies, which are not yet familiar with the range of non-animal tests used in Europe and the US, will still use archaic tests on animals. PETA US has been working to address this situation by giving financial support to the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, which is providing government officials and scientists in China with training in the use of sophisticated non-animal methods. Ending animal testing in China will be a long process, but little by little, we’re making progress.
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Sunday 26 June 2016
All Videos !
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Just wanted to put all of our videos on one blog post !
This week - On Tuesday there will be a Information Post.
This video is based on helping other people learn more about animal testing.
Just wanted to put all of our videos on one blog post !
This week - On Tuesday there will be a Information Post.
Wednesday 22 June 2016
Tuesday 21 June 2016
For or Against?
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Today, I was thinking about the many people in this world who are 'for' animal testing. It also made me think how are we ever meant to change that 'for' into 'against'. I'm sure most of you out there will support the 'against' side, meaning we can kind of think in the same way. Just imagine this. I don't know, about 1.5k people read this blog? That means, if we all put effort in, we can stop animal testing. We could all tell people facts about the cruelty side of it, or what happens in the labs. If all of us help make Animal Testing illegal and sign our petition, then we could put a stop to the selfish scientists behind the lab doors. Help out. Raise awareness. E-mail companies. Tell your friends. Anything you can do, just help us stop animal testing!
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(Petition-https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/126175)
Today, I was thinking about the many people in this world who are 'for' animal testing. It also made me think how are we ever meant to change that 'for' into 'against'. I'm sure most of you out there will support the 'against' side, meaning we can kind of think in the same way. Just imagine this. I don't know, about 1.5k people read this blog? That means, if we all put effort in, we can stop animal testing. We could all tell people facts about the cruelty side of it, or what happens in the labs. If all of us help make Animal Testing illegal and sign our petition, then we could put a stop to the selfish scientists behind the lab doors. Help out. Raise awareness. E-mail companies. Tell your friends. Anything you can do, just help us stop animal testing!
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(Petition-https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/126175)
Collection
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Iv'e decided to do another brand post!
Iv'e recently been in contact with collection about animal testing and they do not test on animals!
Their products are so affordable are incredible quality!
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Iv'e decided to do another brand post!
Iv'e recently been in contact with collection about animal testing and they do not test on animals!
Their products are so affordable are incredible quality!
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Friday 17 June 2016
Wednesday 15 June 2016
Gorilla to the rescue!
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Recently, there has been lots of conversations about Binti Jua, the 'hero' gorilla. I'm pretty sure every single one of you will know what happened as it was quite some time ago. Binti Jua saved the 3 year old boy's life and cradled him while injured and unconscious. While spectators screamed in terror, Binti Jua took care of the boy like he was her own. This shocked people as it was quite clear to them that the gorilla would attack, but actually saved him. This just shows that animals aren't always dangerous, you may think it but in the wild they act a different way.
Spread awareness and show appreciation to this incredible gorilla hero! Just remember stop Animal Testing and raise awareness!
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Recently, there has been lots of conversations about Binti Jua, the 'hero' gorilla. I'm pretty sure every single one of you will know what happened as it was quite some time ago. Binti Jua saved the 3 year old boy's life and cradled him while injured and unconscious. While spectators screamed in terror, Binti Jua took care of the boy like he was her own. This shocked people as it was quite clear to them that the gorilla would attack, but actually saved him. This just shows that animals aren't always dangerous, you may think it but in the wild they act a different way.
Spread awareness and show appreciation to this incredible gorilla hero! Just remember stop Animal Testing and raise awareness!
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Saturday 11 June 2016
1.6K!
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Oh my gosh! We've made another checkpoint! We say this every single time, but thank you. Somehow, we keep on progressing, and we get more and more views! This is amazing! (It truly is as if you've noticed there has been an ! at the end of nearly every sentence!) 1.6K? How is this real life?! It just proves how many of you out there support us, agree with us. Just keep doing what you're doing! The best thing about this, is to show we can stop animal testing, and when we raise awareness more and more people realise how cruel it can be.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Please help us stop animal testing, and raise awareness!
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Oh my gosh! We've made another checkpoint! We say this every single time, but thank you. Somehow, we keep on progressing, and we get more and more views! This is amazing! (It truly is as if you've noticed there has been an ! at the end of nearly every sentence!) 1.6K? How is this real life?! It just proves how many of you out there support us, agree with us. Just keep doing what you're doing! The best thing about this, is to show we can stop animal testing, and when we raise awareness more and more people realise how cruel it can be.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Please help us stop animal testing, and raise awareness!
Bye!
Better alternatives to animal testing for chemical safety to be standard
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I was just looking at the news for animal testing and I found this article: I thought I would share it with you!
I was just looking at the news for animal testing and I found this article: I thought I would share it with you!
After 40 years, Congress has voted to upgrade our federal law governing oversight over tens of thousands of chemicals. The negotiated proposal, expected to be signed by the president soon, will help save people from hazardous chemicals by making use of the best available science and setting up a stronger screening system that takes them off the market. It will also help animals.
Historically, the government relied too heavily on animal testing when it decided to conduct risk assessments for some of the 85,000 chemicals in commerce.
Animal tests proved slow and expensive, producing confusing and misleading results and undermining the imperative to protect consumers from dangerous substances. They also proved unmistakably cruel; humans would never encounter the kind of concentrated dosages to which these helpless creatures are exposed. Perhaps most importantly, they proved nonpredictive; animals often don’t react the same way as humans.
I got a practical understanding of this issue six years ago when I deployed with U.S. Sen. David Vitter in response to the disaster at the Deepwater Horizon drilling site, where a broken rig dumped millions of gallons of oil into the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico. I will never be able to shake some of the images: pelicans covered in crude, dead dolphins washed ashore, endangered sea turtles suffering unattended in begrimed marshes.
Because of the urgent nature of the crisis, chemical dispersants had to be approved and deployed within weeks. Instead of relying on animal testing, the EPA’s Office of Research and Development had to adapt, turning to faster methods of toxicity assessment to determine the possible effects on humans. It worked.
High throughput screening — using robots to apply dispersants to different concentrations of human cells — enabled the EPA to quickly issue a safety report, demonstrating that meaningful chemical testing could be accomplished without animal suffering.
Drawing on these lessons, The Humane Society of the United States has worked closely with Vitter and other key lawmakers to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act, demanding scientific alternatives to animal testing. When this bill is ushered into law, the new regime will consolidate information, require actual safety testing, and allow the use of animals only in rare circumstances.
It’s a big moment in our society when the government pivots away from cumbersome animal testing and toward 21st-century technologies that offer more reliable scientific results.
As we move forward, consumers will feel better about both the ethics and the safety of the products they put into their bodies, and we’ll be able to react more efficiently and with greater accuracy when disaster strikes. When that happens, we’ll have the best of both worlds — better outcomes for people, and better outcomes for animals, too.
Hope you found this interesting!
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Tuesday 7 June 2016
Nearly 1.6k???
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We actually can't believe how far we've came. Seven off 1.6k views? It seems like we started this blog yesterday! All ready it has gone so quickly. Keep doing what you're doing! Trying to stop animal testing. Raising awareness. Reading this blog. Being supportive. Following our instagram. Getting interactive!
When you introduce your friends and family to our blog, please don't just take them straight to our recent, show them our older posts because they have so much information and detailed facts! Find our interactive posts on our instagram account: talk-about-testing where you can give your opinions on what blog posts you want next!
Just remember, STOP Animal Testing and raise awareness!
Bye!
We actually can't believe how far we've came. Seven off 1.6k views? It seems like we started this blog yesterday! All ready it has gone so quickly. Keep doing what you're doing! Trying to stop animal testing. Raising awareness. Reading this blog. Being supportive. Following our instagram. Getting interactive!
When you introduce your friends and family to our blog, please don't just take them straight to our recent, show them our older posts because they have so much information and detailed facts! Find our interactive posts on our instagram account: talk-about-testing where you can give your opinions on what blog posts you want next!
Just remember, STOP Animal Testing and raise awareness!
Bye!
Sunday 5 June 2016
NYX Demo
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I wanted to make a video on my NYX lipstick so everyone can see the products i recommend :)
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I wanted to make a video on my NYX lipstick so everyone can see the products i recommend :)
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Friday 3 June 2016
Benefit?- Is It Cruelty Free?
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Sorry we have been so inactive! :(
It is hard to work out whether Benefit is cruelty free.
It is on Peta's cruelty free list but on google it says they are cruelty free.
"Benefit is against cruelty to animals. It is our goal to be as transparent and honest with our customers as possible. We believe the "cruelty free" certifications provide unclear explanations to consumers, as it implies that none of the ingredients incorporated into products have ever been tested on animals."
So I emailed them and they also said they were cruelty free.
I said, "If you are 100% cruelty free why are you on Peta's 'tests on animals' list?"
Benefit replied, "Thank you for taking the time to write us.
Sorry we have been so inactive! :(
It is hard to work out whether Benefit is cruelty free.
It is on Peta's cruelty free list but on google it says they are cruelty free.
"Benefit is against cruelty to animals. It is our goal to be as transparent and honest with our customers as possible. We believe the "cruelty free" certifications provide unclear explanations to consumers, as it implies that none of the ingredients incorporated into products have ever been tested on animals."
So I emailed them and they also said they were cruelty free.
I said, "If you are 100% cruelty free why are you on Peta's 'tests on animals' list?"
Benefit replied, "Thank you for taking the time to write us.
Since 1989, we do not perform any test on animals for the products we put on the market. This was implemented long before the 2013 official ban set by the European Union.We are deeply committed to the elimination of animal testing and we are playing a leading role in developing alternative methods through our support of the “Fund for Alternatives to Animal Testing” in the United States and our active participation to validation studies of new alternative tests in the framework of the European cosmetics association (Cosmetics Europe). Additionally, we are one of only a few companies to have invested in creating our own internal department to test raw materials and ingredients to further ensure the quality of our products and the satisfaction of our customers, which is our foremost priority.
We are hopeful that alternative testing methods will be adopted worldwide and we will see an end to animal testing."
Please help us work this out!
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Saturday 21 May 2016
Animal Rights
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These are the animal rights from +PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Here are a few ways of understanding this vibrant, exciting movement.
It’s a Philosophy
Animal rights is based on ethical and moral philosophy. It has been discussed by some of the world’s most influential thinkers, from historical figures such as Pythagoras and Leonardo da Vinci – who embraced vegetarianism – to Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the utilitarian school of philosophy, who famously identified animals’ capacity for suffering as the characteristic that gives them a right to equal consideration.
“The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?'”– Jeremy Bentham
All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness and familial love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account.
In his book Animal Liberation, the philosopher Peter Singer states that the basic principle of equality does not require equal treatment – it requires equal consideration. This is an important distinction when talking about animal rights. People often ask if animal rights means that animals should have the right to vote or drive a car. Of course, that would be silly because those aren’t rights that would benefit animals. But animals have the right not to suffer at the hands of humans and to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation because they have an interest in doing so. That is the difference between equal consideration and equal treatment.
It’s Intuitive
You don’t have to be a philosopher to know that hurting animals is wrong. At its core, animal rights is simple. It’s about being kind to others – whether they’re members of our own species or not.
Almost everyone cares about animals in some context, whether it’s a beloved family companion, an irresistibly cute kitten or a majestic wild animal seen in a documentary. After all, we each have some built-in capacity for empathy and compassion, as can be seen from the lengths that children often go to in order to help animals.
Logically and morally, there’s no reason to differentiate in the way we treat the animals we share our homes with and those who are farmed for food. They’re all individuals, with the same capacity to feel pain and fear. Animal rights helps us to look past the arbitrary distinctions between different species, to rediscover our innate compassion and to respect all animals equally.
“When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.”
– PETA founder Ingrid E. Newkirk
It’s a Way of Life
There’s nothing abstract about animal rights, and there are no barriers to getting involved. Anyone who cares about animals can start putting these principles into practice every single day with the food they eat, the clothes they wear and the products they buy. These choices are a form of nonviolent protest that makes a real difference both by reducing the profits of corporations that harm or kill animals and by creating a growing market for cruelty-free food, fashion, services and entertainment.
To learn more about making kind choices, visit the Living section of our website and order a free vegan starter kit.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”– Margaret Mead
It’s a Social Movement
Like other major social movements, animal rights brings people together from across political, religious and cultural boundaries to fight against injustice.
And like those movements, it’s also about fairness. Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves. Whether it’s based on race, gender, sexual orientation or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable. Alongside the struggles against racism, sexism and homophobia, there’s the struggle against speciesism – discrimination against other beings on the basis of their species.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”– Dr Martin Luther King Jr
It’s the Way Forward
Society is evolving and becoming fairer all the time. Despite all the people who say change will never happen, most countries in the world have outlawed human slavery and child labour Recognising the rights of animals is the next stage in our progress towards a fairer world.
As biologists and animal behaviourists learn more about animals’ intelligence and the complexity of their lives, there’s even less excuse for treating them as commodities rather than the sensitive individuals they are.
Most of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather and visiting zoos. Yet, just as we’ve made the mental shift towards a way of life that respects animals, so society as a whole must outgrow the unethical mindset that animals are here for us to use and kill as we please.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”– Mahatma Gandhi
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Animal Testing
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I just was looking at animal testing quotes, they are very inspiring.
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. Imagine if you were on the other side staring out wondering why are you hurting me? 100 million animals are killed in labs every year. Animals to not deserve to be in labs, what have they done? Beauty doesn't hurt so why do people hurt them? Why do people buy products that have been tested on animals after all? To selfishly put on their face to look good? If so many people were against animal testing people would think it was disgusting to put that kind of product on your face. It just shows that brands cannot trust what they are putting in their products.
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I just was looking at animal testing quotes, they are very inspiring.
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. Imagine if you were on the other side staring out wondering why are you hurting me? 100 million animals are killed in labs every year. Animals to not deserve to be in labs, what have they done? Beauty doesn't hurt so why do people hurt them? Why do people buy products that have been tested on animals after all? To selfishly put on their face to look good? If so many people were against animal testing people would think it was disgusting to put that kind of product on your face. It just shows that brands cannot trust what they are putting in their products.
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Wednesday 18 May 2016
1.5K!
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Thank you so much for making this happen, we have reached 1.5K! Every single on of you that reads this blog raises more awareness and so far, its helped lots! This blog means a lot to us as it helps us spread the word about Animal Testing and Cruelty. Now we have contacted larger companies meaning we can try to put an end Animal Testing.
Please keep reading our blog to find out more about Animal testing and help us stop it!
Raise Awareness and thank you!
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Thank you so much for making this happen, we have reached 1.5K! Every single on of you that reads this blog raises more awareness and so far, its helped lots! This blog means a lot to us as it helps us spread the word about Animal Testing and Cruelty. Now we have contacted larger companies meaning we can try to put an end Animal Testing.
Please keep reading our blog to find out more about Animal testing and help us stop it!
Raise Awareness and thank you!
Bye!
Reasons To Be Against Animal Testing
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Some people think animal testing is okay, when really they know it isn't.
Some people are selfish and think that it doesn't matter if animals died for a product because in the end, it will make them look amazing.
Some people, like me, hate animal testing and I am glad for what we have done to contact companies and change thousands of peoples minds!
I got this information from Cruelty Free International and for those people who are for animal testing please read this:
Some people think animal testing is okay, when really they know it isn't.
Some people are selfish and think that it doesn't matter if animals died for a product because in the end, it will make them look amazing.
Some people, like me, hate animal testing and I am glad for what we have done to contact companies and change thousands of peoples minds!
I got this information from Cruelty Free International and for those people who are for animal testing please read this:
Animal experiments are cruel, unreliable, and even dangerous
The harmful use of animals in experiments is not only cruel but also often ineffective. Animals do not get many of the human diseases that people do, such as major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s disease, or schizophrenia. Instead, signs of these diseases are artificially induced in animals in laboratories in an attempt to mimic the human disease. Yet, such experiments belittle the complexity of human conditions which are affected by wide-ranging variables such as genetics, socio-economic factors, deeply-rooted psychological issues and different personal experiences.
It is not surprising to find that treatments showing ‘promise’ in animals rarely work in humans. Not only are time, money and animals’ lives being wasted (with a huge amount of suffering), but effective treatments are being mistakenly discarded and harmful treatments are getting through. The support for animal testing is based largely on anecdote and is not backed up, we believe, by the scientific evidence that is out there.
Despite many decades of studying conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, stroke and AIDS in animals, we do not yet have reliable and fully effective cures.
Unreliable animal testing
- 95% of drugs fail in human trials despite promising results in animal tests – whether on safety grounds or because they do not work
- Using dogs, rats, mice and rabbits to test whether or not a drug will be safe for humans provides little statistically useful insight, our recent analysis found
- Out of 93 dangerous drug side effects, only 19% could have been predicted by animal tests, a recent study found
- Using mice and rats to test the safety of drugs in humans is only accurate 43% of the time, a recent study found
Wasteful animal testing
- Despite the use of over 115 million animals in experiments globally each year, on average only 25 new medicines are approved annually by the leading drug regulator, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Many of these are for rare diseases.
- The US drug industry invests $50 billion per year in research, but the approval rate of new drugs is the same as it was 50 years ago.
- Only 6% of 4,300 international companies involved in drug development have registered a new drug with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1950.
- Even those drugs that are approved are not universally effective due to individual reactions - the top ten highest-grossing drugs in the USA only help between 1 in 4 and 1 in 25 people who take them
- Of over 1,000 potential stroke treatments that had been ‘successful’ in animal tests, only approximately 10% progressed to human trials. None worked sufficiently well in humans.
- A review of 101 high impact basic science discoveries based on animal experiments found that only 5% resulted in approved treatments within 20 years.
Dangerous animal testing
- Vioxx, a drug used to treat arthritis, was found to be safe when tested in monkeys (and five other animal species) but has been estimated to have caused around 320,000 heart attacks and strokes and 140,000 deaths worldwide.
- Human volunteers testing a new monoclonal antibody treatment (TGN1412) at Northwick Park Hospital, UK in 2006 suffered a severe allergic reaction and nearly died. Testing on monkeys at 500 times the dose given to the volunteers totally failed to predict the dangerous side effects.
- A clinical trial of Hepatitis B drug fialuridine had to be stopped because it caused severe liver damage in seven patients, five of whom died. It had been tested on animals first.
- Only one third of substances known to cause cancer in humans have been shown to cause cancer in animals.
Animals are different
- Animals do not get many of the diseases we do, such as Parkinson’s disease, major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV or schizophrenia.
- An analysis of over 100 mouse cell types found that only 50% of the DNA responsible for regulating genes in mice could be matched with human DNA.
- The most commonly used species of monkey to test drug safety (Cynomolgous macaque monkeys), are resistant to doses of paracetamol (acetaminophen) that would be deadly in humans.
- Chocolate, grapes, raisins, avocados and macadamia nuts are harmless in people but toxic to dogs.
- Aspirin is toxic to many animals, including cats, mice and rats and would not be on our pharmacy shelves if it had been tested according to current animal testing standards.
Have I changed any minds?
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Sunday 15 May 2016
NYX
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On the 10th of May, NYX arrived in my local boots store. I am now addicted to it!
Their products are amazing and such good quality.
Today I purchased a soft matte lip cream and it is one of the best things I have ever bought!
On the 10th of May, NYX arrived in my local boots store. I am now addicted to it!
Their products are amazing and such good quality.
Today I purchased a soft matte lip cream and it is one of the best things I have ever bought!
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