My hiatus has been a lot longer than I anticipated, and I hope you will forgive me for this. We have relocated again to the Big Smoke and this has been my first real chance to sit down and get cracking on The Animal News (and there is lots of it!)
Back on 3rd August 2011 I posted about an EU Directive regarding lab animals being implemented into UK law threatening current standards, read it here.
Testing on animals for cosmetics is not only cruel and unnecessary but also selfish, is lipstick really worth the life of an animal?
Back in 2003 it became illegal to test on animals for cosmetics within Europe. Then in 2009 a ban on the sale of cosmetics that had been tested on animals came into effect. By early 2013 every shop and Internet supplier must be free of and no longer market animal-tested cosmetics, the deadline for this is March 2013. The bad news is that the EU is considering delaying this deadline for years. This risks removing any motivation for companies to work on developing alternatives and condemning tens of thousands of animals to suffer and die.
Please can you spare some time to sign the petitions below calling for the European Parliament to adhere to the original 2013 deadline. Members of the public are against animal testing in cosmetics on ethical grounds therefore it is important that the government listen to the overwhelming majority European citizens .
When you have signed each petition (it takes less than 2 minutes) please take advantage of the links provided and share the petitions on Facebook or Twitter, as well as e-mailing your friends.
To Do List
Please sign Peta's Petition here.
Please sign BUAV's Petition here.
Please sign HSI's Petition here.
Please sign Care2's Petition here.
P.S. Ladies, if you do wear make up I can recommend a good non animal testing brand in Urban Decay.
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