Animal Free testing!

[Catherine]

Quote:The significance of the partnership between Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced last month, lies in the decision to stop the practice of animal-testing.

This is really important and we should be rejoicing. It is being acknowledged by these two groups that animal testing is not working to protect humans and there is a better way to test chemicals for human toxicity.

After all these years and so much animal cruelty, finally it is publically being acknowledged that animals don't need to die for us to be safe.  (The sad truth is that their deaths did not make us safe so they died for nothing. )

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

If a group like this can find a better way to test chemicals then everyone else needs to find a better way.
I think we will see an end to animal testing. Companies that refuse to change will end up being blacklisted by animal rights advocates.  We already try to shop from ethical companies. So we will see a shift and it will not be a matter of seeking ethical companies. It will be a matter of avoiding unethical companies.

I may be wrong, but I feel like the tide is turning.
Animal cruelty is no longer considered acceptable as a means to an end.