P&G Needs to Stop!

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P&G Needs to Stop!

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Procter & Gamble Kills!

For a complete global product list go here: http://www.pg.com/products/pg_products.jhtml .. help stop one of the biggest companies, with over 300 product lines STOP their cruel and unnecessary animal testing. Do not buy these products!
"Each year, thousands of animals die in P&G laboratories-the victims of painful, archaic and entirely unnecessary product tests."
P&G refuses to stop testing its products on animals, despite the fact that these tests are not required by any law


Check out any of these links for info on their labratory tests and what kind of company they really are:

http://pandgkills.com/main.html
http://iamscruelty.com
http://iamskills.com

Some of you may take this seriously, others of you may only glance at it and go on with your lives, if I can change even one of your minds about this company, then I will have succeeded, please take the time to look into this :cry:

"Caustic chemicals are forced into the eyes of rabbits and applied to animals' shaved and raw skin.

Laboratory workers place the animals in restraining devices so they cannot struggle while the workers apply the chemicals, which burn into the animals' eyes and skin. P&G "scientists" do not sedate the animals or give them pain killers.

Animals sometimes break their necks or backs attempting to escape the pain. Those that survive are used in yet additional painful tests ... until they are finally killed. The victims include rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, ferrets and other animals.

Their IAMS labratories are some of the worst ever to exist:

"Investigators videotaped Iams dogs being dumped on cold concrete flooring after having huge chunks of muscle cut out of their thighs; a coworker instructing her to hit the dogs on the chest if they quit breathing; another coworker talking about an Iams dog found dead in his cage, bleeding from his mouth; a dog limping in pain from Lyme disease; cruel studies done by Iams involving sticking tubes down dogs’ throats to force them to ingest vegetable oil; Iams dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their teeth that it was painful for them to eat; vet technicians with inadequate training and experience performing invasive procedures; two coworkers conducting a pregnancy test on a terrified dog lying on top of a cart with wheels that moved every time she struggled; dogs and cats gone stir-crazy from confinement; dogs and cats in windowless, dungeon-like buildings; coworkers talking about the live kitten who was washed down a drain; coworkers talking about how they had to go home because the ammonia fumes in the animal trailers were so overpowering that it made their eyes burn (try being one of the animals in those cages!); and cats kept in a cinderblock room with crude wooden resting boards that had nails sticking out of them. One of the boards fell on a cat, crushing her to death, while our investigator was there. The lab director did not remove the boards when the cat was crushed but he did remove them when he was told the lab was going to be inspected because he knew they were illegal."
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that's so sad. i did an english essay on animal testing this year. a lot of it surrouded p and g.
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That's just wrong. I can't believe people still do that to test products.
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how do you boycott something like this? they make EVERYTHING!
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It's easy, I've cut out every product they made .. I can't speak for my mom unfortunately because she doesn't listen to me and doesn't care when I try to explain, but nothing by them goes in or on my body .. sick sick sick .. I printed out a list of the products they carry in North America .. it looks large cuz that's a global list .. just narrow it down to the products they carry here and stop buying them .. it's easy to get shampoo/conditioner, toothpaste, deodorant etc that is cruelty free ... and giving up Pringles?? Well, after checking out those sites I certainly won't miss those one bit.
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I'm reading a book on the Fast Food industry (called Fast Food Nation) and alot of the same stuff applies to that industry as well. And it's not just animals, its people too, like the ones working in meat packing factories. All of corporate America is just disgusting, but unfortunately, it's impossible to boycott EVERYTHING.
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... its people too, like the ones working in meat packing factories. All of corporate America is just disgusting, but unfortunately, it's impossible to boycott EVERYTHING.


what's disgusting about people volunteering to do something? those people are there by choice because they want to be.
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I know someone who freaked out about this same exact thing 2 1/2 years ago. Animal testing isn't a very happy thing, expecially given the conditions of the place described . . . but what would you have them do instead, hmmm? I'd rather see a bigger budget to improve the conditions for the little guys before they get maimed and killed.
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Demosthenes wrote:but what would you have them do instead, hmmm?

http://pandgkills.com/facts/cosmetic_te ... imal_tests
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:neutral:

Amimal testing is just wrong and its so unbelievably cruel :(
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what products do they make anyway? i think my mind just went blank :freak:
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Joey wrote:http://www.pg.com/products/pg_products.jhtml
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ah. seems my head is empty...interesting....
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i bet i know why they still test on animals!

p r o f i t.

alternatives listed on that website include: use of cell cultures, corneal and skin tissue cultures, corneas from eye banks, and sophisticated computer and mathematical models.

now all of that sounds like it would cost more then a puppy from pet mart. so... until you have a cost effective alternative, i don't think anything will change.

which leads me to say this: don't boycott P&G. Instead found a group that will come up with a cost-effective alternative method of testing. because no boycott will ever work as well as the chance to save some nickels!

ahhh economics. :mrgreen: it puts a smile on my face.
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I'm not really boycotting them .. it just sickens me to use anything by them so I refuse to buy their products .. I'm sure they won't miss me but that's not really what it's about for me. Plus the tests they do, if you check out the links, are not required by law .. there are safer alternatives .. they don't HAVE to test on animals, they CHOOSE too, which is what pisses me off.

Bonne Bell for example tests their products on people who volunteer .. no animals are used whatsoever in their products or for testing .. some of the tests that P&G do are so outdated and so ancient they don't NEED to be done. It bugs me more because they continue to test, when they don't have too .. and the inhumane way they do it.

Course, I've gone on quite the tangent with this sort of stuff and have stopped using all companies that test (to the best of my knowledge) and buy most of my stuff at a local health food store .. plus I'm vegetarian .. progressing quickly towards veganism :D

On another note .. the whole IAMS thing is such a crock .. complete bullshit .. they market their dog/cat food as "good for life" and it's one of the most expensive brands out there .. good for life? How many dogs and cats die by their hands in cruel tests? It's complete crap! grrrrr ... *pulls hair out* This stuff makes me so angry :mad:
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Demosthenes wrote:but what would you have them do instead, hmmm?


Well for example: Bonne Bell tests their products on people, people who CHOOSE to participate and who VOLUNTEER to participate. I have more respect for a company that attemps to find safer alternatives, then a company who tortures, abuses and kills innocent animals everyday. Animals who have no choice in the matter. Especially when some of the tests P&G does, are so old they're one of the only companies still conducting them because most people have grown with the times and realize it's completely unnecessary.

Now I realize for medication etc there's a law requiring the use of animals .. I sorta understand that, though I still think it's crap. Now for cosmetics etc, there is no excuse .. shampoos etc .. no excuse .. those products have no law stating they need to be tested on animals, companies CHOOSE to, and that's what angers me the most.

Here's some of the tests Bonne Bell does on people: http://www.bonnebell.com/faq/#testing
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