EU Ban on Animal Testing

What ban?

Nobody's ever going to ban animal testing outright, in order to sell chemicals to humans you have to prove they're safe for human use, and in order to test that you've got to first test it on animals. Sure, the final mixture might not have been tested on animals, but the ingredients must have.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21740745
Oh and not true at all! Plenty of makeup brands etc are totally animal cruelty free! No testing whatsoever.

The ban is on use of animal testing for cosmetic reasons im sure. And I doubt it affects non-EU companies that we import from america etc.

Wow, I'm surprised I suppose they've already tested enough ingredients on animals to know what's safe and what isn't though.

Yeah I guess so but even so they don't need to do it any more, there's plenty of other methods. And even if they did have to test on animals they don't need to go to the extent of injecting them until they die because that's disgusting

Who actually cares

I see a need for testing cosmetics on animals before humans as cosmetics (well, if we assume a need for cosmetics), but you're right, injecting stuff into them is pointless and cruel.

Everyone should! They INJECT poor animals with products until THEY DIE. It's not like they have a little bit of shampoo rubbed into them. It's cruel.


I don't even see any need for it to be honest, I'd be willing to rub a bit of foundation into my skin to see what happened if it meant animals don't have to be pointlessly be killed. It's not like a foundation would kill me, seeing as it has basically the same ingredients as every other foundation in the world.

I don't even see any need for it to be honest, I'd be willing to rub a bit of foundation into my skin to see what happened if it meant animals don't have to be pointlessly be killed. It's not like a foundation would kill me, seeing as it has basically the same ingredients as every other foundation in the world.

i would agree with you but you're coming across as a PETA like fanatic trying to make it seem like these companies have some unwarranted hatred and agenda against animals and are being purposfully inhumane to get their kicks. that doesn't help anyone.

if the animal is killed by the foundation or whatever chemicals they are testing, then it is more than likely you would be too. again, they are not sadists going around slaughtering animals for a laugh. they are looking to make money and make sure the products they sell to make that money are actually going to be able to be sold. i disagree with animal testing on cosmetics but being irrational just makes you seem like a crazy person.

i would agree with you but you're coming across as a PETA like fanatic trying to make it seem like these companies have some unwarranted hatred and agenda against animals and are being purposfully inhumane to get their kicks. that doesn't help anyone.

if the animal is killed by the foundation or whatever chemicals they are testing, then it is more than likely you would be too. again, they are not sadists going around slaughtering animals for a laugh. they are looking to make money and make sure the products they sell to make that money are actually going to be able to be sold. i disagree with animal testing on cosmetics but being irrational just makes you seem like a crazy person.

The main issue is whether or not the testing is necessary. I don't honestly believe that cosmetics testing on animals is necessary as cosmetics are a luxury. But animal testing for essential medicines that have a legitimately necessary purpose can still be cruel however, will not only go towards saving human lives but also the lives of other animals. Many forget that many drugs that are used for human treatments are sometimes the same for animals.

If you're that confident, then there's no harm in testing it on animals first

As someone who hates animal cruelty more than pretty much anything, I can't stand animal testing. For drugs is a a grey area but cosmetics I regard as outright wrong. Revlon stopped it years ago, bastards are L'Oreal should do the same. I'm pretty sure they have banned animal testing for cosmetics in the EU but not USA which is where these products are tested.

In fact when I got pretty curious about this a couple years ago I researched it and was sickened by what I found. Literally look it up, there are so many reasons why testing on animals for cosmetics is illogical at the very least.

Sorry about the rant.

If you've seen the state of some livestock farms, I doubt animal testing for cosmetic products would shock you. I'm not saying it's not wrong but it's not the worst issue.

Are you sure the products you see at Boots are tested on animals? They might only be selling those which are not tested on animals.