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From: Rupert on 29 Jun 2008 16:15
Have you read Singer's book "Ethics into Action" which tells the story
of how Henry Spira got major cosmetics companies like Revlon to stop
using the Draize test on rabbits? He had a go at Proctor & Gamble next
but I'm not sure if he made any progress.

I saw the abstract of an article by a veterinarian called Andrew
Knight regarding the superiority of a bioassay test for
carcinogenicity to the standard test which made use of rats. I was
always thinking it would be good to investigate the scientific
research about things like that a bit further, trying to identify
areas where you can demonstrate to companies an advantage in
abandoning some of their existing toxicity tests on animals.
From: Mr.Smartypants on 29 Jun 2008 17:18
On Jun 30, 6:15 am, Rupert <rupertmccal...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Have you read Singer's book "Ethics into Action" which tells the story
> of how Henry Spira got major cosmetics companies like Revlon to stop
> using the Draize test on rabbits? He had a go at Proctor & Gamble next
> but I'm not sure if he made any progress.
>
> I saw the abstract of an article by a veterinarian called Andrew
> Knight regarding the superiority of a bioassay test for
> carcinogenicity to the standard test which made use of rats. I was
> always thinking it would be good to investigate the scientific
> research about things like that a bit further, trying to identify
> areas where you can demonstrate to companies an advantage in
> abandoning some of their existing toxicity tests on animals.


Aspartame was tested on rats when the original test subjects,
primates, showed adverse effects including one grand mal seizure.

Rats have 10 times the resistance to methanol toxicity that humans
have.

I wish some one would explain to me why we aren't testing on the
scientists who develop these products and the CEOs who want to market
them.

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