Virginia has officially become the 4th US State to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals. The Humane Cosmetics Act will come into effect beginning in 2022 and will impose civil penalties of $5, 000 with an additional $1, 000 for each day the violation continues. This moves comes after Virginia signed a bill into law in 2018 that prohibited state testing facilities from testing on animals in favour of an already approved non-animal testing method.
When it comes to cosmetics testing on animals, we aren't searching for the cure for cancer. We're literally forcing animals to endure countless tests in order to determine if a new lipstick or lotion will cause us harm. Animals endure endless skin irritation, untreated lesions, and painful rashes while being forced to repeatedly have products applied to them. Their entire short lived, miserable lives are spent being poked, prodded, and covered in random products. The most disturbing part of this is the repeated proof that animals and humans will react differently to products because our chemical makeup is not the same. Humans and rabbits are not the same in any way, shape, or form. We are simply exploiting animals in the name of science when deep down, we know that it is ineffective and often times doesn't translate to human experiences. "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades & it simply didn't work in humans." --Dr. Richard Klausner, Former Director of the National Cancer Institute Animal testing is outdated and ineffective. All we are doing is subjecting innocent animals to torturous tests while knowing that there is not an 100% guarantee that these results will correlate with human results. We are simply testing on them for the sake of doing so, wasting millions of dollars on tests that we can't even guarantee will translate in to human results. It's long past the time that we end animal testing altogether.
Virginia will join California, Nevada, and Illinois in ending the sale of newly tested cosmetics. HAPPY VEG
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