Maine Becomes 6th State to Ban Cosmetics Tested on Animals

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Maine has joined 5 other states throughout the United States in banning the sale of cosmetics newly tested on animals. The new law will take effect on November 1st of this year, effectively ending their participation in an industry that has exploited animals for decades. 

Animal testing for cosmetics is wholly unnecessary and exploitative to the highest degree. We're not talking about life-saving medicine here folks, we're talking about lotions, lipsticks, and body washes. Animals are subjected to repeated tests to determine whether a product will cause reaction. These tests can include products being dripped in their eyes or smeared on bare skin while rats are forced to ingest lethal amounts of these products to determine how much it would take to make us sick. These innocent animals are left without pain medication and are discarded like trash when their usefulness runs out.

​Many who have utilized animals in the past have since spoken out about the lack of effectiveness or correlation in animal testing results translating to humans. Animal testing results don't necessarily indicate how these products will affect humans which means that we are essentially torturing animals for absolutely no reason. Cosmetics are not necessities in our lives. A lipstick or a new body lotion is not going to help us cure cancer or Alzheimer's, we're literally taking advantage of animals for novelty items. It's sickening.

The more states / countries across the globe that take a stand and ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals, the closer we will come to all of these companies abandoning animal testing. While the demand is still there, these products / tests will continue at the expense of innocent animals. Once we start seeing more and more states / countries abandoning animal tested products, companies will have no choice but to ditch animal testing or face the possibility of losing their businesses because they can't sell their products anywhere. This is the eventual outcome so these companies should start looking into alternatives ASAP or face the possibility of being shut out of the market.

Animal testing is gross. Thank you Maine for taking a stand for animals <3

HAPPY VEG