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From: hutch@volkstation.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Animal testing for Cosmetic and Household Products
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 17:30:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 17:30:31 1986
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In article <762@ulowell.UUCP> ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross Miller) writes:
>It's to bad this got cross posted to misc.consumers.  I'll say it quick, 
>Better the animal than me.  Sueing someone when I am dead doesn't help.
>Also, would you seriously trust your life to a computer program,  given
>current software engineering standards.  Also,  there is a paradox here 
>if the animals are not used for testing, than they will not be born.
>Supply and demand, gotta love capitalism.  
>
>					Have an allergic reaction,
>					Ross

Before anyone believes this crap, they should investigate a little more
closely.  The original article listed those companies which engage in
routine, UN-NECESSARY testing of cosmetics, household products, and so
forth, on animals.  It is obvious even to someone like Ross that if
you put clorox in your eyes it will hurt them.  Therefore, is it necessary
to demonstrate that fact by routinely putting clorox in the eyes of test
animals?  Then why did Clorox feel it necessary to do this?

Ross, if you are so severely susceptible to allergic reactions that you
feel it is justified to animal-test products which can be demonstrated by
simple laboratory chemical tests as hazardous, then I suggest you follow the
same procedure adopted by the two other similarly afflicted people: go
live in Mt Shasta California, in a safe-house with absolutely NO modern
manufactured products in it.

Hutch