AR-News: Boycott Procter & Gamble

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Boycott Procter & Gamble
Original is from;  Uncaged Campaigns
info at uncaged.co.uk

Hello

Global Boycott Procter & Gamble Day VIII on (Saturday 22nd May 2004)  is
only 6 weeks away, so time is of the essence to make your plans and order
any P&G / IAMS leaflets, posters, petitions, stickers etc. (although these
are available online at www.uncaged.co.uk/pgpack.pdf).

Last year there were actions in over 25 different countries around the
world. Please organise something in your country. Together we can really
intensify the pressure on P&G to stop cruel and unnecessary tests on animals
see www.uncaged.co.uk/pg.htm
Whether it be leafleting or staging a supermarket, town centre or
supermarket site – it all spreads the Boycott P&G message and increases the
pressure on P&G.

Please email me at max at uncaged.co.uk
to let us know if and how you intend to protest at P&G's cruel animal
testing on this international Day of Action, so that we can co-ordinate and
better  publicise events.

Yours
Max Newton - Campaigns Co-ordinator, Uncaged Campaigns
9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG, UK; ++ 44 (0) 114 272 2220
Uncaged Campaigns and In Defense of Animals (USA) have waged a vociferous
and unrelenting campaign against Procter & Gamble over the last eight years
for it's animal testing policies.
The core message of the Global P&G campaign is:
"If you buy Procter & Gamble products, you are actively supporting and
sustaining animal testing."
Just some of the tests P&G have been involved with in the past include: skin
irritancy tests for Oil of Ulay (now Olay); tests on monkeys for tampons;
and horrific research conducted at notorious animal-testing laboratory,
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), on a group of 48 monkeys for a nasal
decongestant already in use by human volunteers.
P&G continue to test on animals for new household cleaning and cosmetic
products and for new chemical ingredients. The tests they continue to
conduct for cosmetic products and ingredients have been effectively banned
in the UK for several years, and European Union Ministers voted last year to
ban them too! However, in 2002 an internal P&G memo, leaked to the British
Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) and exposed in the Independent
on 4th November 2002, revealed how P&G had been actively and aggressively
exerting pressure on European Union decision makers to seriously weaken
proposals for a EU cosmetics animal testing ban. Follow these links for the
full Independent article and editorial piece. See also the BUAV website.
Global Boycott P&G Day VIII is on Saturday 22nd May 2004. For more
information on how to participate in this internationally recognised Day of
Action please click here.
The Seventh Annual Global Boycott Procter & Gamble Day took place on
Saturday 24th May 2003. Over a hundred different actions took place in a
growing international movement against the animal-testing corporation.
Uncaged Campaigns led the way with protests in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and
Sheffield, which gained excellent regional news coverage in papers and on TV
and radio.
Other protests ranging from leaflet hand-outs to town-centre information
stalls and supermarket demos highlighted Procter & Gamble's continued cruel
and unnecessary animal testing.
P&G, one of the world's largest consumer product companies, have been
branded the "world's worst" corporation for their continued poisoning and
killing of animals in the development of new cosmetics and toiletries. The
company has also secretly lobbied Governments to try to frustrate the
public's demands for an end to such cruelty.
Unfortunately, P&G systematically puts profits above ethics, so our reasoned
appeals to their better nature have fallen on deaf ears. The only language
they understand is expressed by the $ sign. That's why the consumer boycott
campaign is so crucial.
In 2001 we exposed details of cruel and lethal animal experiments used to
develop the IAMS/Eukanuba brand of 'pet' foods (which is owned by Procter &
Gamble).
This resulted in a front-page exposé in a national UK newspaper (The Sunday
Express, 27th May 2001), and continued bad publicity for IAMS and P&G in the
press and at major events like national cat and dog shows since then.
In March 2003 IAMS were exposed again by US group People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA) to be keeping animals in atrocious laboratory
conditions, still conducting invasive and harmful tests and killing
animals - despite their so-called 'research policy' that they claimed meant
they had ceased all such research (see www.iamscruelty.com)
IAMS are under intense pressure globally over their animal testing and
attempts to 'spin' their way out of it. Hundreds of organisations and
individuals are boycotting IAMS/Eukanuba - and have told them why. This is
the perfect time to use their increased advertising presence to raise
awareness of the cruel practices of IAMS and their parent company, Procter &
Gamble.
The P&G action section includes a boycott action pack and a DIY pamphlet for
you to print from the comfort of your own computer. Let's show Procter &
Gamble that we mean business!
Related Links
P&G action
Report and photos from 2003
Report and photos from 2002
Report and photos from 2001
Please sign our online petition pledging to boycott Procter & Gamble
products until they cease testing on animals. The petition is at
www.ethical-business.com/petitions.asp?pet_id=111.
See also In Defense of Animals' P&G website at www.pandgkills.com