Re- Dove - Unilever test on Animals! Boycott their products.
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Romanian Society For Preventing Cruelty To Animals~ The voice of the voiceless ~
I recently received a comment (Hi Pawan!) asking if Dove is animal-testing-free. I asked a few of my friends, and they all said they thought Dove was a highly ethical company and probably was cruelty-free. Dove must have some really good PR, that’s all I can figure (I do like their Campaign for Real Beauty — that seems nice), because Dove is owned by Unilever, which is on PETA’s bad list. PETA is targeting Unilever, hoping to convince it to go cruelty-free the way Pepsi and Coca-cola have — right now Unilever is torturing piglets and mice. Do not buy products from Dove if you think piglets and mice should live pain-free lives.(Unilever also owns Axe, Degree, Finesse, Lever 2000, Pears Transparent Soap, Pond’s, Q-Tips, Salon Selectives, Snuggle, Suave, Sunlight, Sunsilk, Sure, Vaseline, and Wisk. If you care about animal suffering, please don’t buy those either — cut Unilever off until it stops torturing piglets.)
Karen, where is the link to take action? What are the names of people to write to?
Are you 100% sure that this company is still testing with animals and not just going on what those extremists PeTA say? PeTA has been known to lie to get their way.
http://www.unilever.com/sustainability/c...r/testing/
only sent to me via facebook this week
Well, always be leery on anything PeTA related. I've had too many personal dealings with them to know they are vile and they'll stoop to lying, terrorism and bribery to get what they want.
Why does PeTA have a walk in freezer full of dead dogs?
I'm thinking that since this is a bogus alert we should delete this thread?
I dont think its false
http://www.unilever.com/sustainability/c...r/testing/
At Unilever, using non-animal approaches is the norm and animal testing is the exception. Before any animal testing is carried out, Unilever's internal control procedures require senior management to certify that there is no other way of proceeding. Unilever does not undertake animal testing, or commission others to do testing on its behalf, unless it is necessary to meet its health, safety and environmental obligations or it is demanded by government regulators or other official bodies. We do not test finished products on animals unless demanded by the regulatory authorities in the few countries where this is the law. In such cases, we try to convince the local authorities to change the law.
http://pleasebekind.com/unileverpage.html
Compassionate Action Alerts
BOYCOTT UNILEVER
Many household products are tested on animals before being sold to consumers. Companies test both ingredients and finished products on animals. The most commonly used tests are the Draize eye and skin irritancy tests and the Lethal dose tests. These tests involve extreme pain and suffering. Pain killers or anesthetics are not given to the animals during the tests, as they may interfere with the test results.
The Lethal dose tests were developed in 1927 to roughly measure the toxicity of products through the use of live animals. Animals are given a dose of a substance either orally or by a stomach tube, inhaled as a vapor, powder, or spray, dermally by application onto the skin or intravenously. As many as several hundred animals may be used for every substance tested. The dose at which 50% of the animals die is called the LD50, the dose at which 100% die is the LD100.
In the Draize eye irritancy test, a toxic substance is dripped behind the lower eyelids of rabbits and the rabbits are observed for reactions to the substance. The Draize skin irritancy test is similar but the substances are tested on the animals’ skin which is shaved and exposed to a dose of a product and then checked for signs of irritation such as redness or blistering.
Testing is not required by law. Some companies still test because they want to protect themselves from lawsuits from consumers who may have misused a product or had a reaction to it.
Boycotts and letter-writing campaigns have influenced giants such as Colgate and Proctor & Gamble to stop using animal tests. Almost 600 other companies have also stopped testing. Unilever, however, continues to their products on animals. It is critical that Unilever hears your opinion on this subject. Please send a polite letter or e-mail telling them that you will boycott their products until they declare a moratorium on animal testing. In addition, save your receipts from the purchases of cruelty-free products and send them to Unilever at 800 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 with a note saying "See what you’re missing!" or "If you’d stop testing on animals, my business could be yours".
E-mail Unilever by going to their site by clicking here and filling out their contact form
Print out a letter to Unilever
Call Unilever toll-free at 1-800-598-1223
E-mail this page to friends who will help.
For more detailed information on this campaign and to obtain a free list of companies that do and do not test on animals,
click here
For more detailed information on animal testing,
contact the
National Anti-Vivisection Society
or E-Mail them
or call them at 1-800-888-6287.
Hi Twitchin Kitten, I have always been an avid supporter of PETA, could you explain more of the problems you have found when dealing with them? I am genuinely interested to know how they operate? thanks Hannah.
(07-17-2010 10:05 PM)hannahandboo Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Twitchin Kitten, I have always been an avid supporter of PETA, could you explain more of the problems you have found when dealing with them? I am genuinely interested to know how they operate? thanks Hannah.
Feel free to download this article I wrote on PeTA some years ago. The links should still be good.
These people stoop to the lowest levels for animal liberation. They're not for animal rights, nor humane issues, they want all animals free - LIBERATED.
I was at a dog show once. It was in a public park with no fencing alongside a busy road. We were required to keep our dogs in crates for their safety. Some ass-wipe from PeTA was going around from cage to cage opening them setting the dogs free. A gorgeous, pregnant husky bitch - worth $10K - was one of those dogs set free. She ran into the street and got hit by a car and died. I guess liberation pays?
I've had them harass me at my home for breeding race horses. I've had them harass me for finding adoptive homes for retired racers so they didn't get sold for meat or to the Amish to live a life of hard labor.
There are so many more organizations that do more good than this bunch of nuts. I tend to stick with the legitimate groups like the ASPCA, Best Friends and locally, Popcorn Park Zoo.
I hope you find them as despicable as I do once you read my article.
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Hi Twitchin Kitten - wow quite a read I can see I am going to have to do some research before carrying on my monthly donation.......thanks for the info Hannah
If you're in the USA give to the ASPCA - they do better work and it's all on the up and up. They don't send money to terrorists to do their dirty work and they don't have a freezer full of dead animals they "saved". They also are not a bunch of hypocrites.
what I find really odd as would anyone is the freezer full of dead dogs? why would they not be put down at a vets and cremated as is usual and why would they not pass to a dogs home/sanctuary who would hopefully rehome?
I may be being naive but I must say this is rather a shock as I am really passionate about animal rights and think the laws are shocking and from the video's and reports I have seen I can actually (although I think it is the wrong way to do things) understand how people can be upset to the point of violence by these disgusting companies and there utter disregard for animal life and quality of life? But I assumed PETA would campaign in a way that meant they were beyond reproach. And surely by using or funding violence they lessen the respect people have for them and alienate alot of people who would actually support them!
Hannah, their not about animal rights. They want total animal liberation. They are against service dogs, seeing eye dogs and they feel there should be no fences or leashes. Pets are frowned upon.
The freezer? They use the dead dogs in their shock videos!
Did you get a load of the indoctrination program they're doing to children with the "Your mommy kills animals" campaign? They pass this shit out in grade schools! If I had a kid and they came home with that there'd be hell to pay for sure.
How about the lawsuit they got off on? Do you really believe that they did nothing wrong by throwing all those dogs in a dumpster illegally? They managed a sweet legal team to manipulate the system. The court records are all there for everyone to read.
They have people outside the Iams company saying how they do some horrible testing on animals (it's pet food isnt' it? who's going to eat it? People?) all the while wearing leather shoes, belt and jacket.
The leader (this is in my article), Ingrid Newkirk, is a diabetic and it's a known fact that animals are tested for diabetes medicines - her philosophy is that it's ok for HER to use animal tested products so she can carry on with her work. Can you say hypocrite? I can, and quite easily.
I've been giving to the ASPCA for ages. The work they do is fantastic and they are well respected. I've never seen anyone call them a bunch of nut-jobs.
There are so many outlets that are not so extreme that actually get something done.
Did you know that PeTA campaigned for Ben & Jerry's ice cream to be made with human milk instead of cow milk?
Do you know they are on a campaign to call fish "sea kittens" because children will find eating sea kittens repulsive and by that fact, they can save the fish?
I can go on and on how despicable they are but that little bit I showed you in my article should be enough to stop helping them fund terrorists alone. Tax records in the USA are public records. All non-profits are subject to scrutiny by anyone and their records are openly available. I've given a small sample of that. Feel free to dig more.
As for Why not sanctuary or rehome? It's easier to kill and dispose than go through all that effort. They have no shelters. They just want to liberate the animals - however it takes.
I have a friend who is one of Unilever top execs I will ask him about this he will tell me the truth, he is a very honourable man I will be seeing him in the next week
Hi daffodiluk great idea, I can't wait to see what you find out......keep us posted Hannah and Boo
The latest apparently concerns Dove products , please ask him definitively do they test on animals.
Cheers Karen
Just an update re Unilever, I haven't seen my friend due to him going unexpectedly off to Indonesia but he is back on the 10th August, so will certainly ask him then I haven't forgotten and will update as soon as poss, before I ditch all the Dove products in my bathroom cupboard. Val
Apologies for taking so long to get back on this subject, the answer is not absolutely straight forward and it is up to your own conscience. I have had a fervant NO Dove is not tested on animals, but and it is a big but they will not guarantee that all the ingredients in it have not in the past been animal tested. So it's up to personal choice. I know where all mine are. Over to you. Val
