That's ok Mike - you're entitled to your opinion as much as mine. Didn't mean to offend you in any way.
Edit: just seen your most recent post. I wish I had a constructive answer right now, but I'm quite tired. In the bluntest way possible, perfume isn't a necessity to keep us alive. I can understand why it would help you feel more secure in your medical problem, but it doesn't come under the same category as life saving medicine.
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I think it's fair to say that almost everything has been tested on animals at some point - it might be helpful to think about choosing companies (for cosmetics etc.) who no longer test on animals in any way? I think a law is being/has been passed (not entirely sure) in Britain so that British companies can/will no longer be able to test cosmetics on animals.
I think it's a really big spectrum between using cosmetic products which are still being tested on animals and using medicines/other life-saving stuff which has been tested on animals at some point... and one could argue it's ALL wrong in principle, but we're human and we're naturally designed to want to survive, it's what keeps us alive and our species going, so it's understandable most of us would want to take medications etc. But it's not necessary to use cosmetic products that are still being tested on animals.
Hope that made a degree of sense, I'm not good at explaining myself well. At the end of the day people have the right to make their own choices, absolutely.
That's ok Mike - you're entitled to your opinion as much as mine. Didn't mean to offend you in any way.
Edit: just seen your most recent post. I wish I had a constructive answer right now, but I'm quite tired. In the bluntest way possible, perfume isn't a necessity to keep us alive. I can understand why it would help you feel more secure in your medical problem, but it doesn't come under the same category as life saving medicine.
Just seen this, I totally agree with that!
Trust me i'll be thinking a LOT about this tonight.
and according to their website Simple don't test on animals.
However they are part of the Unilever company, which test some ingredients on animals.
That will have to come down to a personal choice I guess. The products under the Simple brand probably aren't tested on animals, they pride themselves on the purity stuff. Unilever do own a large portion of the toiletries market I guess it would be near impossible to avoid all products.
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I'm not for animal testing but not against it either
This but because I haven't really ever thought about my views on animal testing, it's kinda at the bottom of my list of priorities, but I respect people who do have concerns over these matters.
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Like that anit sickness drug that caused loads of birth defects.
Yeah, My mother was born missing a bone in her wrist/ some bones in her arms are wrapped around each other so she can't twist her hand around like everyone else. However she isn't angry about it.
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I remember a poll done between two perfumes one was Calvin Klein and the other sold in Aldi. Almost everyone preferred the aldi brand.
I would like evidence of this poll please.
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eating meat and wearing leather means an animal died to provide you food and clothing. It served a purpose, it had a reason for being killed.
It wasn't stuffed into a small cage or pen and made to suffer just so they can test whether or not the lipstick will irritate your skin.
Other than that, I have to admit, you have very good points.
My father worked as a lab technician in a university and they kept animals for testing up until I was about 8, they where kept in excellent conditions and had excellent welfare, had breaks from being at the university (staff took them home to look after for a couple of weeks a year) and they where put down if a test had a adverse effect on them. They where never ever kept in horrible little cages and made to suffer to the extent that people who are against animal testing claim.
This example could have been an exception to the rule though.
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on a more serious note it does annoy me when the hard core animal rights ppl do things like release these animals straight outside, what do they think will happen to them?
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this thread took a very odd turn. I don't like it.
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I used to use Lynx. I was a sucker for brand names and commercials.
but now I just go with whatever is on offer.
Gillette antiperspirant at the moment.
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