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Companies That DO Test on Animals

Why are these companies included on the 'Do Test' list?

The following companies manufacture products that ARE tested on animals. Those marked with a t are currently observing a moratorium (i.e., current suspension of) on animal testing. Please encourage them to announce a permanent ban. Listed in parentheses are examples of products manufactured by either the company listed or, if applicable, its parent company. For a complete listing of products manufactured by a company on this list, please visit the company's Web site or contact the company directly for more information. Companies on this list may manufacture individual lines of products without animal testing (e.g., Clairol claims that its Herbal Essences line is not animal-tested). They have not, however, eliminated animal testing from their entire line of cosmetics and household products.

Similarly, companies on this list may make some products, such as pharmaceuticals, that are required by law to be tested on animals. However, the reason for these companies' inclusion on the list is not the animal testing that they conduct that is required by law, but rather the animal testing (of personal-care and household products) that is not required by law.

What can be done about animal tests required by law?

Although animal testing of pharmaceuticals and certain chemicals is still mandated by law, the arguments against using animals in cosmetics testing are still valid when applied to the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. These industries are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, respectively, and it is the responsibility of the companies that kill animals in order to bring their products to market to convince the regulatory agencies that there is a better way to determine product safety. PETA is actively working on this front by funding the development and validation of non-animal test methods and providing input through our involvement on government advisory committees at both the national and international levels. Companies often resist progress and, instead of using human-relevant non-animal tests, choose to use animal tests because their results can be manipulated. Let companies know how you feel about this.

Arm & Hammer (Church & Dwight), P.O. Box 1625, Horsham, PA 19044-6625; 609-683-5900; 800-524-1328; www.armhammer.com

tBic Corporation, 1 Bic Way, Ste.1, Shelton, CT 06484; 203-783-2000; www.bicworld.com

Church & Dwight (Aim, Arm & Hammer, Arrid, Brillo, Close-up, Kaboom, Lady's Choice, Mentadent, Nair, Orange Glo International, Oxi Clean, Pearl Drops), P.O. Box 1625, Horsham, PA 19044-6625; 609-683-5900; 800-524-1328; www.churchdwight.com

Clairol (Aussie, Daily Defense, Herbal Essences, Infusium 23, Procter & Gamble), 1 Blachley Rd., Stamford, CT 06922; 800-252-4765; www.clairol.com

Clorox (ArmorAll, Formula 409, Fresh Step, Glad, Liquid Plumber, Pine-Sol, Soft Scrub, S.O.S., Tilex), 1221 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612; 510-271-7000; 800-227-1860; www.clorox.com

Dial Corporation (Dry Idea, Purex, Renuzit, Right Guard, Soft & Dri), 15101 N. Scottsdale Rd., Ste. 5028, Scottsdale, AZ 85254-2199; 800-528-0849; www.dialcorp.com

Johnson & Johnson (Aveeno, Clean & Clear, Listerine, Lubriderm, Neutrogena, Rembrandt, ROC), 1 Johnson & Johnson Plz., New Brunswick, NJ 08933; 732-524-0400; 800-526-3967; www.jnj.com

L'Oréal (Biotherm, Cacharel, Garnier, Giorgio Armani, Helena Rubinstein, Lancôme, Matrix Essentials, Maybelline, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, Redken, Soft Sheen, Vichy), 575 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10017; 212-818-1500; www.loreal.com

Max Factor (Procter & Gamble), 1 Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745; www.maxfactor.com

Mead, 10 W. Second St., #1, Dayton, OH 45402; 937-495-6323; www.meadweb.com

Melaleuca, 3910 S. Yellowstone Hwy., Idaho Falls, ID 83402-6003; 208-522-0700; www.melaleuca.com

New Dana Perfumes, 470 Oakhill Rd., Crestwood Industrial Park, Mountaintop, PA 18707; 800-822-8547

Olay (Procter & Gamble), P.O. Box 599, Cincinnati, OH 45201; 800-543-1745; www.oilofolay.com

Pantene (Procter & Gamble), 1 Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 800-945-7768; www.pantene.com

Physique (Procter & Gamble), 1 Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 800-214-8957; www.physique.com

Ponds (Unilever), 800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 800-909-9493; www.ponds.com

Procter & Gamble Co. (Clairol, Crest, Gillette, Giorgio, Iams, Max Factor, Physique, Tide), 1 Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745; www.pg.com

Reckitt Benckiser (Easy Off, Lysol, Mop & Glo, Old English, Resolve, Spray 'N Wash, Veet, Woolite), 399 Interpace Pkwy., Parsippany, NJ 07054; 973-633-3600; 800-333-3899; www.reckittbenckiser.com

Shiseido Cosmetics, 5-5, Ginza 7-chome, Chuo-k, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan; 212-805-2300; www.shiseido.com

Schering-Plough (Bain de Soleil, Coppertone, Dr. Scholl's), 2000 Galloping Hill Rd., Kenilworth, NJ 07033-0530; 800-842-4090; www.sch-plough.com

S.C. Johnson (Drano, Edge, Fantastik, Glade, OFF!, Oust, Pledge, Scrubbing Bubbles, Shout, Skintimate, Windex, Ziploc), 1525 Howe St., Racine, WI 53403; 800-494-4855; www.scjohnson.com

Suave (Unilever), 800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 212-888-1260; 800-782-8301; www.suave.com

Unilever (Axe, Dove, Lever Bros., Suave, Sunsilk), 800 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632; 212-888-1260; 800-598-1223; www.unilever.com

Vicks (Procter & Gamble), 1 Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202; 513-983-1100; 800-543-1745; www.pg.com

Iams - A Sickening Example of a Company That Tests on Animals

Source: PETA.org

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Angel Lives Up to Her Name!

Dog is man's and boy's best friend.

CBC News reports that on Saturday night, 11-year-old Austin Forman was gathering firewood in his Boston Bar, B.C. backyard when his 18-month-old golden retriever ran towards him, jumping over a lawn mower and right into the path of a charging cougar.

"I knew at that moment that I would have to go get help, otherwise [Angel] wouldn't have any hope," Austin told CBC News.

Austin ran into the house, where he and his mother called 911. When Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived at the scene, they found Angel under the back porch with the cougar's jaws gripped around her neck. Constable Chad Gravelle shot two rounds into the cougar's rear end, but it continued to attack Angel. Gravelle then got closer to the cougar and shot again, instantly killing the cougar, who still had Angel's face clenched within its jaws, CTV.ca reports.

"I feel very, very lucky. If it wasn't for my dog, I don't think I would be here," Austin told CBC News.

The dog came out of the ordeal with some extensive injuries, including a fractured skull, according to NBC's "Today." She has undergone surgery to repair the damage and her vets hope for a full recovery.

"She was my best friend, but now she's more than a best friend," Austin told CBC News. "She's like my guardian now."

Source: PawNation.com by Sonia Zjawinski

More Touching Tributes to Man's Best Friend

• My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ---Edith Wharton

• To err is human , to forgive, is canine.  ---Unknown

• Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet  ---Colette

• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.  ---Samuel Butler

• Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ---George Eliot

• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated  ---Gandhi

• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself  ---Josh Billings

• I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself...but I think I have a right to resent, to object to, libelous statements about my dog.  ---Franklin D. Roosevelt

• One reason a dog is such a comfort when you're downcast is that he doesn't ask to know why.  ---Anonymous

• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly dog.  ---Edward Hoagland

• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.  ---Milan Kundera

• The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for the man is the more laughable of the two animals.  ---James Thurber

• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.  ---Alexander Pope

• The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite of those they don't know. How, then, can the dog be anything other than the lover of learning since it defines what is its own and what is alien?  ---Plato

• The best thing about a man is his dog.  ---French Proverb

• Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but just a Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog. ---John Cam Hobhouse

• The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.  --- George Graham Vest

• In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance...everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.  ---Dereke Bruce

The Baby Moose...

Thank You to All Celebrity Activists

We would like to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to the following celebrities who have given generously and/or worked tirelessly to promote the compassionate and humane treatment of all animals. Their support has helped to increase awareness, educate countless individuals and raise millions of dollars for non-profit animal welfare organizations worldwide!

Please Help Support APAM - Animal Protection Assn in Minis, Arad

APAM Animal Protection Association from Minis, Arad is a non-profit organization in Romania which is financed strictly through donations and sponsorships.  They provide food and shelter to abandoned animals which are also spayed or neutered to prevent breeding and to help control over-population problems. APAM cares for these animals until a suitable home can be found to care for them for the rest of their lives. They are in critical need of donations to continue providing these animals with the only decent food, shelter and affection they've ever known.

APAM's goal is to build more shelters to house as many animals as possible and to build a small clinic on their grounds to quickly treat and care for the sick and wounded. This would also prevent adding further pain to already suffering animals by having to transport them to a clinic willing to treat them.

APAM Animal Protection Association from Minis, Romania
Tel: 0744-577031; 0723-493130;
Address: Arad, Sat Minis, com Ghioroc
CF: 200552360
E-mail: office@apam.ro

Please click here to read more about APAM

A Polar Bear Attack in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

These are pictures of an actual polar bear attack in Churchill. They were taken while onlookers watched in horror but could do nothing to stop the attack.  Fortunately, reports from the local newspaper say the victim will make a full recovery.

 

Your SMILE is great exercise for your heart!

When you think life is rough, try being a koala ...at 120 degrees in Australia, it was SO HOT for a week, koalas were asking people for water.  It's never been seen before.

One little koala went to a house to get some relief from the scorching heat and here's what happened when the owner gave him something to drink.  So cute!

"Until one has loved an animal, part of his soul remains unawakened."

As a result of PETA's efforts, Dollar General, a retailer with more than 8,500 stores in the U.S., has agreed to stop selling cruel glue traps.

After PETA argued for the replacement of animals in erysipelas vaccine testing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it will delete three outdated, painful animal test methods and give preference to two tests that do not use animals.

The hit television show Dancing With the Stars cut a segment featuring a chimpanzee after PETA informed producers about the abuse that animals in entertainment so often endure during their "training."

PETA's eye-catching demonstrations and colorful campaigns help to show tens of thousands of people every day that animals have rights, but it is our lifesaving rescue work—work that could not be done without your support—that helps to make their rights a reality.

Thanks to members, PETA caseworkers have been able to respond to more than 15,000 calls for animals in need over the last year alone. While the stories that they hear about animal abuse and neglect are often heartbreaking, many of them do have a happy ending. One such story involves a sweet little dog named Magpie.

Magpie was once as thin as a rail, and she was infected with parasites because her so-called "guardians" had neglected her. After suffering this abuse, she was eventually thrown from a moving van into oncoming traffic. Had it not been for the attention of passing motorists, she very likely would have been struck soon after being thrown out like a discarded fast-food wrapper.

Luckily for Magpie, her rescuer contacted a PETA staffer for help. Soon after meeting the playful pup, that same staffer became so smitten with the sweet little dog that Magpie was welcomed as part of quite possibly the first loving home that she had ever known.

Under the watchful eye of her new family, Magpie has made a full recovery from her ailments, and she now spends her days romping with her cat friend, Dusty, and playfully kissing her two horse friends on the nose. She is crazy about kids, too, and she often follows baby carriages—dragging her guardian along with her—so that she can say hello!

Magpie isn't the only animal PETA has helped "behind the scenes." From helping to find a safe and loving home for an abandoned pig whom they named Sherlock (that's him on the right with PETA's Cruelty Investigations Department Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch) to working with biology instructors to end dissection at a North Carolina community college, PETA staffers work diligently every day, doing everything they can to help animals. None of their efforts would be possible without support of donors.

♥ Dogs just have a way of making us smile and that's good stuff...  

Bella never asked to be paralyzed. She never asked to be abandoned by her owner or to be threatened with euthanasia. Bella’s only request in her short ten weeks of life has been for love and to find a family that she can love in return.

Bella is an adorable yellow Labrador Retriever puppy, and with one puppy kiss she can melt your heart.  That’s why the veterinarian at a San Diego vet clinic, who had been tasked with ending the life of this innocent animal, couldn’t go through with the procedure. And that’s why volunteers from 2^nd Chance 4 Pets, an all-volunteer animal welfare organization, have united to help Bella find a forever home and to make sure that she receives the medical treatment and rehab that she deserves.

2^nd Chance 4 Pets collected contact details for 50+ Southern California rescue and shelter groups and started distributing information about Bella to them and to the public. Simultaneously, 2^nd Chance 4 Pets began conversations with the San Diego vet clinic and realized that Bella needed to be re-homed as soon as possible.

Volunteers from 2^nd Chance 4 Pets drove to Southern California on Saturday, August 1, and brought Bella to a new foster home in the San Jose area. On Monday, August 3, Bella was seen by one of the area’s very best orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Andrew Staatz, who also brought in a neurologist, Dr. Christina Vitale. During the appointment, which lasted almost three hours, Bella was tested for neospora and a urinary tract infection. 

On Friday, August 7, test results showed that Bella does have a urinary tract infection, but she tested negative for neospora.  The neurologist and the orthopedic specialist believe that her paralysis and other health issues are related to a neurological condition and are not an orthopedic issue.

Scout’s House, a rehab center in Menlo Park, California,  saw Bella on Tuesday, August 4.  The rehab specialists spoke to the neurologist and also performed their own examination.  They demonstrated several stretching exercises designed to help Bella’s rear legs become less stiff.

2^nd Chance 4 Pets’ virtual volunteer team received no responses from their efforts to contact Southern California animal groups.  The volunteers switched their focus to developing a website for Bella (helpbella.org) and this blog. They also began to research organizations to apply to for financial assistance to cover Bella’s medical expenses.  A team of about 15 virtual volunteers located throughout the U.S. continues to focus on these efforts. Several local volunteers and friends of Bella are distributing more than a thousand flyers in the area in an effort to raise donations. 

Please click here to read more about Bella

What is PCRM? - Doctors and laypersons working together for compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion.

Prevention

PCRM promotes preventive medicine through innovative programs:

• PCRM has led the way for reforms of federal nutrition policies.

• Our clinical research programs are breaking new ground in diabetes, cancer, and other serious conditions.

• PCRM’s Cancer Project has provided vital information to tens of thousands of people.

• The New Four Food Groups is PCRM’s innovative proposal for a federal nutrition policy that puts a new priority on health.

• Our public service announcement series features medical experts on prevention and health.

• Research Advocacy

We encourage higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research:

• We oppose unethical human experiments. While great strides have been made in eliminating such experiments, problems remain. For example, children are still given synthetic growth hormone in experiments to make them taller, and both children and adults are exposed to unnecessary new drugs which have toxic effects.

• We promote alternatives to animal research. We have worked to put a stop to gruesome experiments, such as the military’s cat-shooting studies, DEA narcotics experiments, and monkey self-mutilation projects. We also promote non-animal methods in medical education. Currently, more than three-quarters of all U.S. medical schools have dropped their animal labs for medical students.

*Click here to read more about PCRM

Please Help Tonka and Luna from Ringling Bros Circus Abuse

The horrifying words of Tim Frisco,  a Carson & Barnes elephant trainer: “Sink that hook into ’em. When you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention.” 

 

Tonka & Luna

Tonka and Luna are two elephants bred by a circus to be trained to perform tricks for paying customers by whatever means they deemed necessary.  Unfortunately for the elephants, this meant being beaten and gouged with bullhooks, hit with whatever was handy, kicked and screamed at and left with bloody, painful injuries.  Then, after years of  torturing and abusing them, Ringling Bros decided they were too unpredictable and dangerous to be allowed to walk from the train to the arena with the other elephants.  This is one of the few opportunities they have to stretch and exercise their legs after spending many days in filthy, confined boxcars. They are put into trucks and driven to the arena. 

Tonka and Luna are not domesticated animals and do not enjoy performing tricks for humans.  The abuse they endure on a daily basis should not be tolerated any longer. Luna is 25 and Tonka is 23 and they have spent their entire lives being savagely beaten to perform for those who pay to see it. Isn't that enough? Please help us save these two magnificent creatures.  If they could speak, they would be begging for mercy.  But they cannot so it is our responsibility to speak for them.  No animals should be treated the way Ringling Bros treats theirs and they should be held accountable for their actions.

Below is a petition to remove Tonka and Luna from travel.  It will be sent to the USDA when enough signatures are gathered.  Please take a moment to sign it, Tonka and Luna will be eternally grateful.

*Read more about Tonka & Luna and other circus animals

*Click here to see Ringling Bros Circus Cruelty

Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom

In 1979, Leo Grillo began rescuing animals with only a tiny shelter and small runs for exercise. Since nobody wanted to adopt them, he treated them as his own. He learned veterinary medicine from books and did his own fecal analysis and skin scrapings for parasites to save precious funds for necessities. 

He continued rescuing animals and his small shelter turned into a SuperSanctuary where they house over 1,500 abandoned animals. They have dozens of catteries, indoor and outdoor enclosed and every two dogs has a huge yard and a stuccoed straw bale house to live and play in. Leo and his associates actually go into the wilderness and save these poor, starving animals and give them a home and companionship for the rest of their lives.  Today they have two fully functioning hospitals on site which saves an enormous amount of money versus hiring outside veterinary services. 

Two Happy Sanctuary Residents Click picture to enlarge

*Please click here to read more about DELTA Rescue!