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Testing times
There are so many cosmetic companies out there that don’t test their products on animals. I am not ranting about the ones that do - if you know me, even vaguely, that will go without saying, although the existence of such a wide variety of non-animal-tested products implies that it would be perfectly doable for the rest to stop! - but rather the ones that don’t but are quiet about it. Seriously. Most of my knowledge of the subject comes either from the literature of animal rights or welfare group, or from lots of digging around in search engines and in the darkest recesses of companies’ websites. Barry M is one truly wonderful exception here. There are others, but in general it takes a lot of effort that is worth it if you are truly bothered both about animal testing and about wanting That. Particular. Product. At least two companies have unnecessarily lost business from me in the last year because I have either been given the wrong information by sales assistants, inherited such information second or third hand from friends, or just assumed the worst because I didn’t know one way or the other. Now if this information was conveyed, in however small type, on the product (as it was in the good old days in many cases!) it would be so much easier…
