NEWS: Bad News for People Who Love Animals

CULTURE: Bad News for People Who Love Animals

You check your soap, shampoo, and moisturizer to make sure it's not tested on animals. You carefully read the ingredients on your vitamins to make sure they're not derived from animal sources. You think you're doing your best to boycott companies that test on animals, and then you read something like this.

Three hundred percent? That is insane. From 2005 to 2006, figures cited showed an increase from 862 to 4,038 experiments on lab animals. And for what? For shit like Teavigo. And what the fuck is Teavigo? It's a green tea supplement, marketed as an "ancient remedy for a modern sense of well being."

I don't know about you, but the idea of dogs being force fed huge doses of this shit, and then either dying or being put down doesn't fill me with a sense of well being. The only thing it fills me with is the desire to force feed the people who produce Teavigo huge doses of their own crap ass supplement until they known the same kind of pain and horror these dogs experience.



This is just the kind of supplement that most consumers would assume is animal friendly. It promises to "help put your mind and body in balance" and get this tasty marketing nugget:

Gosh, thank you, Teavigo, for those wise words. I will take your advice and make sure not to do "nothing at all." I'll start by not doing "nothing at all" about the way you torture innocent animals. These animals were not (surprise!) put on this planet for you to make an opportunistic buck, and I will make sure to let all of my health-conscious friends, family, and acquaintances know to avoid your totally unnecessary, cruel supplement.



Gosh, I feel better already.



Teavigo, of course, is only one of many health food and supplement companies using animals such as guinea pigs, rabbits, rats, and dogs for lab testing.

If you prioritize animal welfare over the next passing heath craze, think twice and do some digging before coughing up your cash.

I am thiiis close to just saying fuck buying the things I need and living out in the woods living off of the bounty of the earth. You can't go ANYWHERE or do ANYTHING without wondering, "Okay, what had to suffer for THIS?" Sadness dude, sadness. If you need me, Ill be out back chewing on bark and making clothes out of plant life.

Don't forget your smokes!

Fucking aye.

is it seriously necessary to test a green-tea supplement on a dog?

give me a break.

thousands of companies pledge to not use animal testing... to send the right message, don't support the companies that do.

you can click here to visit caring consumer to find a list of hundreds of well-known companies that refuse to test on animals.

Clearly, you're insane.

I do not use any of the new "substitutes" or "supplements"...no experimental herbs for me...that just makes me nervous. No sweeteners or margarines or anything of that sort. It has nothing to do with animals...it has to do with the fact that they are all TERRIBLE for you. Splenda literally makes my insides explode (apparently the large amount of chlorine in it are bad for you...who would have thought?)...many of the margarines are one-step away from being plastic. I cook the way people cooked 50 years ago. With lots of fresh foods and real butter and sugar in moderation.

You win.

"No Eat Not Food"

a heartwarming story about an alien bug who teaches a little girl the difference between food (apples and oranges) and not food (cheezy poofs, teavigo). Available wherever heartwarming stories about aliens are sold.

Another "It makes me wanna holler!" story. It is hard to stay positive somedays.

People need to stop with the supplements, the ancient Chinese secrets for vitality in pill form, the ultimate sources of energy and just eat a fucking balanced diet.

I'm with you on that.

Testing on animals has saved millions of lives. Many medications use animal by-products. Take an insulin shot? What about the flu shot? Use an inhaler? All use animals products in some way, and some people would die without them.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being boycotting products that test on animals. You just really gotta do you research so that no one can call you out on it, and you can shove it back in there face. Always have an alternative approach in mind.

If someone tells you to boycott dihydrogen monoxide because it part of nuclear waste from nuclear power plants and can potentially kill you, stop, think, and then react.

The point is that we are technologically past the time of animals being needed for experiments. There are many alternatives such as in-vitro testing and computer modeling that are actually cheaper and more accurate than using animals. These animals are suffering and dying needlessly.

Sick.

There's a SG rat group? Where?

I agree with this as well, but there is this pesky clause about "no cruel and unusual punishment" in the Bill of Rights that might keep that from happening, as I'm sure every defense lawyer in the country would contend that drug testing on humans is both cruel and unusual.

Cos, y'know, humans are more important than aminals, even if they made some extremely dick moves to land themselves in the clink.

Are you sure? One of the very few things that humans can do that (other) animals can't is to have empathy outside their own species. Seems a shame not to exercise that.

Fair enough - but there's a material difference to the utility provided to the world between insulin / statins / monoclonal antibodies / etc. and essence of green tea / sundried organic tibetan goji berries / chesire blue knob cheese / etc.

And I'd avoid dihydrogen monoxide if you can - fish do terrible things in it.

yay finally the health industry does something right and test on animals... finally... but in all seriousness why cant we test on animals? why cant we eat em and rule over them like the sentient beings we are?

Testing on them for health supplements I can agree with being bad. These health supplements aren't needed. When it comes to finding cures for shit, I have no problem then.

If any of you do, why aren't you stepping up to the plate to be the test subject instead of the animal?

Yah, its cruel. But sometimes necessary.

If it needs to be tested on anyone or thing it probably shouldn't be in your system, anyway.