Below you can read some basic information about animal testing. There are many companies which still use animals in research. You can get the list here: PeTA.org I have chosen Procter & Gamble company because their brands such as Always, Braun, Gillette, Oral-B, Pantene, Tampax, Pampers, Tide, Ariel, Duracell, and many others are very popular in all over the world.
The main purpose of this campaign is to show this company that there are many people who care. Animal testing is unnecessary and I refuse to buy their products. I hope that there are more people thinking like me and wanting to some action. The plan:
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1. Download and print the text available here,
2. Sign it,
3. Put it into the envelope, stick a postage stamp,
4. Send it on the first week of September (read below) to: 1 Procter & Gamble Plaza, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
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 Why I chose the exact time: it will be more powerful if many people send the letters with the same text at the same time. Just imagine how P&G's office gets flooded with letters. :)

As you read this, hundreds of mice, rats, cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, monkeys, and other animals are dying in cruel and unnecessary medical and product-testing experiments. In fact, 219 animals are killed every minute in a U.S. lab. They die in pain, alone, without a gentle touch or a soothing voice. Animal studies teach us nothing about the health of humans because animals of different species absorb, metabolize, and eliminate substances differently than humans do. The truth is that testing on animals is bad science: It is unreliable and unnecessary.

Most of the animals that are used in testing are bred just for testing, but many others come from the pound. Mice, rabbits, dogs, guinea pigs, cats and monkey's are the most commonly used animals for tests. It has been proven that there is already enough existing safety data, as well as in vitro (test tube) alternatives to make animal testing for cosmetics and household products even more unnecessary and unethical. By just listing the names of the tests I will be able to give you a better idea of what these poor animals go through. Whole Body, Short-term Toxicity, Skin Penetration, Skin Irritancy, Eye irritancy, Skin Sensitization, Phototoxicity & Photosensitisation, Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity, Reproductive Toxicity, Teratogenicity and Finished Product Testing are all common tests performed on animals.

 

The LD50 test short for lethal dose, is one of the worst tests that was developed back in 1927 and is still in use today. Groups of animals are dosed with different amounts of a test substance in order to determine the dose which kills half of the animals! Animals are often force-fed the substance. The LD50 test is known to use huge, unrealistic doses that are completely unrelated to possible exposure levels. There are now other tests available that use less animals and lower doses, yet this old, discredited LD50 test continues. During another common test, the Draize eye-and skin-irritation test, rabbits are immobilized in full-body restraints while a substance is dripped or smeared into their eyes or onto their shaved skin. Rabbits often scream in pain and many break their necks trying to get free. The Draize test has been proven in studies to "grossly over predicted the effects that could be seen in the human eye, and does not reflect the eye irritation hazard for man". The human four-hour patch skin test has proved to provide chemical skin-irritation data that are "inherently superior to that given by a surrogate model, such as the rabbit."

Courtesy of aboutmyplanet.com and peta.org.