Over the years I have always tried to avoid animal testing, not just because I keep a pet bunny rabbit, but because I believe hurting animals like this is wrong. Something readers to this blog won't know is as a teenager I used to go door-to-door in my village in Cornwall with petitions. I don't think I was popular for doing this, Door knocking with a "ban fox hunting" petition in a very rural place that had its own hunt meet.
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It wasn't just foxes I tried to help, was pretty much any animal campaign by Greenpeace, WWF, The RSPCA or PETA. Save the whales, no to bunny testing, free range not battery hens... that sort of thing. I still very much agree with the anti cruelty message, but I am no longer a vegetarian. I do however prefer traceable meats from proper butchers and farmers, not the big supermarkets.
Recently on 11th March new rules came into effect, cosmetics can no longer be tested on animals, sadly this doesn't extend to the ingredients used to make cosmetics.
I just don't see how its right to torture a bunny for shampoo, heck I'm sure there are many people that would be the "guinea pig" for new products if they were provided free!
