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| A selection of my favourite brands. |
The website features thousands of articles
and extremely disturbing videos (a lot of which I couldn’t bring myself to
watch) demonstrating the horrendous treatment of animals, a lot of this in the
name of product testing. As I was researching the site I found myself welling up after almost every article about the torture the poor animals go through, and before I knew it I was signing up to every petition I came across.
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| Layla Kayleigh in her 2009 PETA campaign against testing on animals. |
'Beauty Without Bunnies 101' is a
programme designed by PETA for 'compassionate shoppers'. It features a
searchable online database, which gives you the chance to type in brand names
and find out whether they test on animals or not. (Click HERE for link.) I was disappointed to find
out my favorite brands all DO test on animals. This included Estee Lauder,
Clinique, Bobbi Brown, and MAC.I was also quite shocked to find Dove and Johnson's
test on animals, as I would have put them down as cruelty free.
In fact, from the list of companies that
does NOT test on animals, the majority I wasn’t familiar with, with all the global
names unfortunately in the list that DO still test. A few I did manage to pick
out however were Urban Decay,
Smashbox, Stila, and Liz Earle.
A few of the celebrities
backing the campaign to stop testing on animals include Vivienne Westwood, Pamela Anderson, Joanna Krupa (Real Housewives
of Miami) Sir Paul McCartney, Ricky Gervais and Leona Lewis. Leona Lewis
recently revealed in an interview that she follows Buddhism and "would
give up her music career to end animal testing."
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| Lucy Watson unveiling her recent anti-fur ad for PETA. |
More recently,
Lucy Watson from E4's 'Made in Chelsea' modelled for PETA and regularly tweets
about her love for animals. In fact it was through Lucy's twitter account that
I found out about the cosmetics companies who refuse to test on animals.
(@imlucywatson).
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| "Animals are friends, not food!" |
Danielle Helm, 21, is a student
from Preston and has been vegetarian for the past
seven years, before recently becoming a vegan for the previous three.
"I chose veganism because it
didn't seem right to put animals through suffering just for our own
vanity or benefit. I have looked at quite a few PETA campaigns especially when I
first turned vegan, so they did help develop my principles on it. With regards
to the make-up that I buy, if I find the company does test on animals, I will
always try and find an alternative first. Most things I can manage to find a decent alternative, but there
are certain products, like my Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation that I literally
cannot find a decent alternative for, so I continue to buy that."
LUSH products are an obvious one
for cruelty-free brands. It's the only shower gel I use! GOSH cosmetics are
great, especially the mascara. And I've never used them myself but I've heard
the Aesop range is meant to be amazing!"
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| Rosie wearing her favourite (cruelty free!) Chanel lipstick. |
Rosanna Booth, 21 is a student from Sheffield, and also a
vegetarian, and has been since the age of six.
"My mum started working in a health food shop around the
time I started wearing make-up so I became a bit more conscious of animal
testing. I ended up becoming vegan for about a year but then couldn't live
without cheese so went back to being a veggie! I try my best to buy cruelty
free products. Toiletries are easier to buy with places like Lush. Before I buy
any new make-up I just look up brands that don't test on animals and there's actually
loads including Chanel, which means I can keep using my favorite
lipstick!"
Was
anyone else shocked at the amount of brands continuing to test on animals? Will
this put you off buying certain products in the future?
For any more information check out the official PETA website at: http://www.peta.org.uk/
Claudia
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*Taken from the official PETA wesbite.
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