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.