National Antivisection Society
Help KICK ANIMAL TESTING OUT OF THE HOUSE
13 March 2008
Paint, polish, washing powder, cosmetics, and food additives are just some of the products you will find at home that may have been tested on animals.
What happens to the animals
Commercial tests like these are conducted in secret. A paint test leaked to NAVS from a UK laboratory revealed how rats were restrained and forced to inhale paint. Unable to move, with the air thick with paint steadily filling their noses, throats and lungs. Within three hours half were dead and the others were close to death.
We can end these tests
After years of campaigning, we secured a UK ban on testing cosmetics on animals in 1997. With the support of people like yourself we pressed on. Five years later, in 2003 Europe confirmed it would phase out all testing of cosmetics on animals – but this phaseout is not yet complete – although numbers have dropped dramatically, thousands of animals continue to be used by some European cosmetics companies. Many US companies continue to test.)
Only buy products marked “Not Tested on Animals". Ask manufacturers whether they test their products and to label them clearly.
Please donate to help this campaign
Find out more about the European ban on cosmetics testing on animals
Find out about the suffering of animals in commercial tests (Report PDF)
Check the progress on our campaign to end primate tests
Find out about research without animals
Please help us end the abuse of animals, please make a donation today…
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