Volume 4, Issue 4 - November 2004

Have You Checked the Fine Print Lately?
by Diane Broccardo and Kay Fritzsche

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have you read the fine print on the products in your home lately? If the answer is NO, you may inadvertently be contributing to the profits of companies that engage in animal testing (i.e. the Draize Eye test).

Proctor & Gamble actively uses animals in the testing of their product lines, and they sell over 300 brands of products, including: over the counter and prescription medications, cleaning products, personal care items, pet foods, coffee, and snack foods.

Over the past few years, Proctor & Gamble has acquired many new companies and brands. Consequently, they may now be manufacturing and distributing some of your favorite products. A partial list of Proctor & Gamble products includes:

  • A Touch of Sun hair color
  • Always feminine products
  • Aussie hair care products
  • Balsam Color hair color
  • Bounce fabric softener
  • Bounty paper towels
  • Camay soap
  • Cascade dish detergent
  • Charmin bath room tissue
  • Cheer detergent
  • Clairol hair and beauty products
  • Cover Girl cosmetics
  • Crest toothpaste
  • Daily Defense skin care products
  • Dawn detergent
  • Downey laundry products
  • Dreft detergents
  • Dryel laundry products
  • Era detergent
  • Eukanuba pet foods
  • Fabreze laundry products
  • Fixodent denture adhesive
  • Folgers coffee
  • Gain detergent
  • Glide dental floss
  • Head and Shoulders shampoo
  • Herbal Essences hair care
  • Hydrience hair color
  • Iams pet foods
  • Infusium hair care products
  • Ivory soap and detergents
  • Joy detergent
  • Loving Care hair color
  • Luvs diapers
  • Max Factor cosmetics
  • Metamucil
  • Millstone coffee
  • Mr. Clean cleaners
  • Natural Instincts hair color
  • Nice ‘n Easy hair color
  • Noxema skin products
  • Oil of Olay skin care products
  • Old Spice cologne and deodorant
  • Pampers diapers
  • Pantene hair products
  • Pepto Bismol
  • Pert shampoo
  • Physique hair products
  • Pringles potato chips
  • Puffs tissues
  • PUR water filters
  • Safeguard soap
  • Salvo detergent
  • Scope mouthwash
  • Secret deodorant
  • Sunny Delight juice
  • Sure deodorant
  • Swiffer floor care products
  • Tampax
  • Thermacare cold products
  • Tide laundry detergent
  • Ultress hair color
  • Vicks cough and cold products
  • Vidal Sassoon hair care
  • Zest soap

For a complete list of Proctor & Gamble's products, visit their website and select the Products category.

TAKE ACTION!

Show your support for cruelty-free development and manufacturing practices. Find alternatives to the Proctor & Gamble products that you currently use. Visit the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) website for a list of companies that DON'T test products on animals and for information on purchasing cruelty-free products.

Write Proctor & Gamble and request that they stop testing their products on animals.

AG Lafley, CEO
Proctor & Gamble, Inc.
Proctor & Gamble Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-983-1100
Email: P&G Contact Us
Website: http://www.pg.com/

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Boycott companies that sell fur clothes and accessories. Read Nancy's article, Rabbit . . . The New Fun Fur. You can also order PETA's free "Compassionate Clothing" shopping guide.

The Extreme Cruelty of the Draize Eye Test
One of the tests performed on rabbits is called the Draize Eye Test. In this test, the rabbit’s lower eyelid is pulled out to form a cup. The test substance is placed into the cup and the eyelids are held shut so the substance flows across the entire eye. The amount of damage to the inside tissue of the eyelids, cornea and iris is scored at 24, 48 and 72 hours, and sometimes for as long as 21 days. This can cause excruciating pain to the rabbit. For a more extensive discussion of the Draize Eye Test and other testing methods to which rabbits are subjected, refer to the book written by HRS members Margo DeMello and Susan Davis entitled, “Stories Rabbits Tell." (Copies of this book are available for purchase at the Bunny Burrow Gift Shop.)