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Toolkit: Contesting Animal Testing
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I. Know the Facts
Any campaign is stronger when you've got knowledge. Groups like In Defense of Animals and PETA can provide factsheets, statistics, and other info for your noggin.
II. Hop on the Campaign Trail
Campaigns targeted at companies have worked in the past to get companies like Revlon to stop testing. Intensive work is required: getting the products from the companies out of your home, school, and community; writing letters and sending petitions to the company; and working to educate others about the company. Take on your own company that tests on animals, or hop on a trail already begun, like PETA's current campaign against Procter & Gamble.
III. Educate
Download flyers or make your own and post them at the supermarket, Laundromat, bathrooms, on campus, and anywhere you go! You can also order or make stickers, leaflets, posters, photos and other materials to educate with, or get a video to show. Propose alternative testing methods to colleagues, friends, teachers, scientists, and authority figures.
IV. Dump It
Organize a product dump from any company you want to boycott. Have large dumpster bins or trash cans available and invite others to dump their products from the company. Be sure to give out your literature at the event, and it wouldn't hurt to contact the media or hold a demonstration afterwards, either!
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 Talk Back: Comment on this ArticleNumber four seems really wasteful. Is there anyway, especially for things like shampoo and other beauty products that come in bottles, to swallow your pride, finish using the product (or at least dump it down the sink if need be) then recycle publicly instead of dumping, while taking a vow to never purchase that product again? Reply to this comment | Reply to article
But there is also an issue of product ingredients that cause health problems, such as formaldehyde, sodium laurel sulfates, AHAs, etc, which are found in many products that are tested on animals as well--proving that companies don't seem to care about people, either, unfortunately. So you could feel good about throwing them out knowing that you are throwing out things that are harmful to your body as well. If you'd like a list of ingredients that could be harmful to your health, these YN pieces have some good information:
http://www.youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1829,
http://www.youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=2844. Reply to this comment | Reply to article
So if you don't like what's in them, don't want the company to test on animals, then why did you buy the product in the first place?
I'm always being told not to waste things, and since everything nowadays seems to cause cancer, how are those any different? Reply to this comment | Reply to article
I think that rationally after you discover that something you purchased does cause cancer or other health ailments you might throw it out, unless you have that invincibility complex that many youth seem to hold onto; then, I would advise you to be careful driving. And there are many alternative products without said ingredients (health, personal care, food, etc.) if one would take the time to find them. I suppose it all comes down to how much you value your own health. Reply to this comment | Reply to article
All that aside, wouldn't it be more helpful to the environment to still recycle the bottle since plastic is not biodegradable?
And maybe it's not an invincibility complex; maybe it's just a knowledge that we all are going to die anyways... (By the way, for the record, as a pedestrian, there are a LOT of shitty 25+ drivers. Invincibility is NOT just a youth complex.) Reply to this comment | Reply to article
Recycle it--after you dump the carcinogens and other nasty stuff out.
And if people don't care about their health because they know they are going to die anyways... I'm doubting they are activists to begin with. Like I said, it's a personal thing, if you value your health, the animals, etc. Does one really value recycling over avoiding cancer? I'm thinking you can do both.
Regarding drivers, that's simply one example; youth may not be the only people with invincibility complexes but statistics, research, experience, and common sense all point to them being in the majority of that affliction, unfortunately; in fact, much of it is psychological that will wane in time. It's simply, as I said, unfortunate, as many lives are lost because of it; just as many lives are lost, as you might point out, to elderly people driving when their vision is too obscured to do so properly, people driving drunk, etc.
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"Does one really value recycling over avoiding cancer?"
The less we do to help our planet, the more the planet will fight to get rid of us. Recycling is just one step to help out the planet. Reply to this comment | Reply to article
animals didnt do anything to us. why should we be hitting them and testing OUR products on them. i would rather test something on a human and have to die then an animal to be honest, the world isnt screwed up, its the people in it that are [most of them anyways]. so people really need to stop and grow up. Reply to this comment | Reply to article
ROCK ON!!!!! thats soooo true! im such an animal activast now that i now about all of this its weird like i heard about ppl doing this stuff but i never thoguth about it untill recently! Reply to this comment | Reply to article
i agree! Why do we test our products on cute honest creatures. All we're doing is killing the animal population! Reply to this comment | Reply to article
if people keep on going with what they are doing and do not pay attention, they will miss out on everything the beginning of a new species of animal and the end of one. Its time for the world, to stop and listen and pay attention. the world we live in is changing, and we need to co-exist equally with all the other animals on this earth or one by one they will be gone and then we will be soon to follow. Stop testing on animals, start protecting them because sooner or later, the animals we see now will only be seen in history books in the years to come Reply to this comment | Reply to article
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