Today is Sunday, Sue’s cleaning day. Sue wakes up and gets in the shower, where she uses her Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner, her Nair shaving cream, and her Lava Soap. After she’s done she almost immediately begins brushing her teeth using her Colgate toothpaste and Plax mouthwash, then applies her Lubriderm lotion, her Arrid deodorant, and her Cover Girl makeup products. She blows her nose in her Kleenex tissue and gets dressed in hr Calvin Klein clothes. Throughout the day Sue uses Pledge, Windex, Drano and Glade to help keep her house looking clean and smelling fresh. Before the sun goes down, she still finds time to sunbathe using her brand new bottle of Banana Boat sun tanning lotion. Millions of other people use these same products every day. The products all have one very important thing in common: the chemical testing performed by the companies that manufacture them contribute to the hundreds of millions of animals that suffer and die every year. Although many people believe these resulting deaths are frequently clean, painless and simple for the animal to go through, this is very seldom the truth.In the United Kingdom alone, over 2.5 million cats, dogs, mice, gerbils, hamsters, and other animals die due to chemical testing every year. This does not include the 8 million that are bred and then killed because they are surplus, nor does that figure include the many millions more that die needlessly due to animal testing in other areas of the world. Animals are tested on in every way possible, from the removal of vital body organs to exposure to lethal chemicals. Many of them are only tested on once before they are left to suffer and die in a cage. In a study conducted by IAMS, the pet food company owned by Proctor & Gamble, 24 young dogs had their right kidneys removed and their left kidneys destroyed at least 75% to investigate how protein affects dogs with kidney failure. Eight additional dogs ...
