Groundbreaking legislation to end animal testing for cosmetics in the U.S. just got a big push of support with a public endorsement from dozens of compassionate industry leaders and stakeholders who want to see the ugliness taken out of our quest for beauty.
Even though it’s not required in the U.S., cosmetics companies have been using animals to test the safety of their ingredients and products for decades and many continue to force millions of animals to endure an onslaught of chemicals during cruel, painful and unnecessary tests that burn, poison and kill them without pain relief.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/these-cosmetics-companies-want-to-keep-animal-testing-out-of-beauty-products.html#ixzz33ZloZzNKMore than 500 companies have already proven they can create safe and cruelty-free products and have been certified by the Leaping Bunny program, which requires them to make a voluntary pledge not to test products or ingredients on animals at any stage of development and requires their suppliers to do the same.
Of course we want to know products hitting the market are safe for us to use, but we also want them to be humane and thanks to advances in science and the development and validation of alternatives, there’s no longer a reason to sacrifice one goal for the other.
