Animal Welfare NGO

I found an NGO related to Animal Rights and thought this is really interesting.This NGO is called "Angel eyes" and it respects animals life and I personally really like it.
The vision of this NGO is that every animal and bird has as much right to live, to experience freedom and to feel protected as does any human being.
They uphold Triple-A (Action, Adoption & Awareness)approach towards animal welfare and currently has its effort.
Action:

Animal Birth Control (ABC) Measures

Assistance To Sick/Injured Stray Animals & Birds

Anti-Rabies Vaccination Camps

Adoption

Adoption Of Indian Breed Dogs

Adoption Of Abandoned Pets

Community Adoption

Awareness

Educational Documentary

Awareness Activities

Publication

Siddharth, Choudhary Angle Eyes. NGO, n.d. Web. 5 Jul 2012. <http://www.angeleyes.in/

Financial Benefits and Disadvantages

In this post I would like to discuss the financial benefits and disadvantages of companies that claim they have an anti-animal testing policy. You don't see many companies in Japan that actively promote they have this policy, but in the UK and in the EU it is a big trend and they proudly display an anti-animal testing logo on their products.


Here is an example which I found out.
When The Body Shop started campaigning that they do not put animals through cruel experiments in developing their product, this brought an enormous profit to their company. Meanwhile, Boots (a big rival drugstore company in the UK) lost many customers because they weren't a company that said their products were not put through tests. Boots had to change quickly. A knock on effect was that all suppliers to Boots had to change too. It suddenly became very unfashionable and unacceptable not to display an anti-animal testing logo.


This shows that, at least in the UK, promoting that your company has an anti-animal testing policy will bring financial benefit.


Although this sounds as if there is no down side to it, what happens if a customer has an allergy reaction to the product and he/she sues you for not having their products tested with animals? This could be a HUGE disadvantage for the company.




Putting this in mind, do you think it is good that a company has an anti-animal testing policy or not?

Cruelty-Free Companies and Animal Testing Companies

For this post, I would like to introduce you to companies that do NOT put animals through cruel experiments in the process of making or improving their products.

I would like to tell you which cosmetic companies have a cruelty-free policy, since cosmetic companies are the ones that have the biggest share in animal experimentation.

I was surprised to find there are so many companies that don't do any animal experiments! Here are some major companies which you might know.

· Bath & Body Works

· Lush Cosmetics

· The Body Shop (L'Oreal)

· Victoria's Secret

On the other hand, these are some companies that unfortunately do animal experiments.

· Johnson & Johnson (Acuvue, Band-Aid, Clean & Clear, Neutrogena)

· Unilever (Comfort, Dove, LUX, Ponds)

· Procter & Gamble (Downy, DOLCE & GABBANA, Dunhill, Herbal Essence, Joy)

· L'Oreal (Lancôme, Kerastase, Maybelline)

You might have heard some of these products. I was shocked. Many of the products I use in my daily life were on the list of products/companies that carry out animal tests. Although this was shocking news to me, now that I know I can be more careful in choosing what kind of products I should buy and choosing which shops I should go to.

There was one thing that I thought was interesting in doing this research: I found out that there are some companies, such as L'Oreal, that have non-animal testing products in their portfolio while at the same time allowing other products in their range to be tested on animals. 

These are just a few that I spotted, for more information please go to the PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) website! http://www.peta.org/living/beauty-and-personal-care/companies/default.aspx They will show you not only cosmetic companies but also clothing companies, living supply companies, medical companies (even candles!) that do or do not allow animal testing as part of their policies on their products.

Vivisection

In my previous 15 questions, there was a question I mentioned about vivisection. Today I would like to explain what vivisection is and would like to talk what I feel towards that. First of all, vivisection is an animal experiment tested at schools and universities in the purpose of students to dissect animals. "Every year, tens of millions of animals are dissected, infected, injected, gassed, burned and blinded in hidden laboratories on college campuses and research facilities throughout the U.S. Still more animals are used to test the safety of cosmetics, household cleansers and other consumer products. These innocent primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents and other animals are used against their will as research subjects in experiments and procedures that would be considered sadistically cruel were they not conducted in the name of science." What I honestly thought when I read this is that I had a doubt if vivisection is really needed at schools. Without sctually testing and dissecting animals, they might get to learn from watching the actual videos of it. I thought that might help at least half of the animals that are killed. Of course I am not saying that vivisection isnt in need, indeed it is nesesary to train talented people. I just thought that there might be ways that tens of millions of animals won't be killed.

yahoo groups

I found this yahoo group called greenvibrations. This is a group for animal lovers, eco warriors, environmentalists, flower people, conservationists, vegetarians and vegans.
Vivisection, the Ivory Trade, GM Crops, Animal Cloning, Animals in Circuses, Bloodsports, Nuclear Waste Dumping, Animals in Sport, Endangered Animals, Fur, Global Warming, Animal Experiments, Exotic Pet Trade, Over Fishing, Whaling, Factory Farming, Transport of Livestock & the Meat Trade, Domestic Pet Issues, Deforestation & Habitat Destruction, Wild Animals in Captivity, Pollution, and any animal/environmental are mainly disscused here so I thought it might be good to join this and know more about animal rights.
Total mebers are 614 and ithis group was founded in Aug 7, 1999 and the spoken language is English.

Introducing Yahoo! Groups

I'd like to introduce you a very good public Yahoo! Group that I found.
It is called Ethological Ethics. The founder of this group, Marc Bekoff, regularly updates with his blog posts on various issues on animal rights. He is a professor at the Colorado University and lectures on issues of animal behavior, the ethology on animal minds, and behavior ecology. The last post of his was "Do Dogs Really Feel Pain and Are They Really Conscious?" This could be related to our topic on animal experimentation.

I thought this was a good group because there are up-to-date posts and all of it contains of NO SPAMS!!! It is hard to find public Yahoo! groups with no spam messages. I joined a different group that required a membership because I thought if they require you a membership, they would post some real and useful information, but I was wrong, all they had was spam posts, which was really disappointing.

word clouds

I made a word cloud based on the text of web page I found about animal rights.

The word, animals, rights, respect, happiness are conspicous.
Reading this word cloud, you could know that this web page I found is pro animal rights.

Munoz, G. "Animal Rights." /library.thinkquest.org. Oracle, 1999. Web. 14 Jun 2012. <http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Philosophy/animal_rights.html>.