AR-News: Please write papers informing global boycott against animal-testing company Proctor and gamble

Tue May 18 21:46:16 EDT 2004

>From Mark Richards
anti_cruelty_4 at hotmail.com

1. Courtesy of http://www.uncaged.co.uk/

Please send a polite letter to your local paper informing them about the 
forthcoming global boycott against animal-testing company Proctor and 
Gamble.
If you live outside the UK, please remove Uncaged's postal address from the 
letter.

To find your local paper's email address enter details on the left of 
http://www.thepaperboy.com

++sample letter++

Dear Editor of letters,

I am appalled that Procter & Gamble (who make world-famous brands like 
Fairy, Ariel, Olay, IAMS and Sunny Delight, amongst others) continues to 
test on and kill animals in the development of their products. They conduct 
animal tests around the world for cosmetics sold in British shops - even 
though such tests have been banned in the UK for several years!
Like millions of people around the world I now boycott all Procter & Gamble 
products. Furthermore, I will be joining a peaceful protest on 22 May 2004 
to help make fellow consumers aware of the cruel animal testing practices of 
Procter & Gamble, and urge them to buy “cruelty free” products instead.
This is part of the 8th Global Boycott Procter & Gamble Day, which will see 
demonstrations  all over the UK, and across the world. All the events have 
the same message: ‘If you buy Procter & Gamble products, you may as well be 
holding the knife yourself!’
More information about Procter & Gamble’s practices and the Global Boycott 
Campaign is available from Uncaged Campaigns, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 
4EG, 0114 272 2220 or visit their website at http://www.uncaged.co.uk/pg.htm

Yours faithfully,

(Name, address, telephone number)

2. Courtesy of http://www.dlrm.org/

Please continue to write to environmental organisations asking them to look 
at non-animal methods of testing chemicals, such as those proposed by 
Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine, to safeguard the environment, 
people and animals.

We are emailing:

Children's Environmental Health Network
Consumers Union/Consumer Policy Institute
Earth Island Institute
Environmental Defense
Environmental Working Group
Natural Resources Defense Council
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sierra Club
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
World Wildlife Fund
Children's Environmental Health Network

PLease also paste your letter here:
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=719&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=703&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=333143&bmUID=1083854849132

Emails:

dswartz at cehn.org, silbma at consumer.org, members at environmentaldefense.org, 
info at ewg.org, bblackwelder at foe.org, greenpeace.usa at wdc.greenpeace.org, 
fbeinecke at nrdc.org, bmusil at psr.org, information at sierraclub.org, 
media.team at sierraclub.org, genek at pirg.org, fuller at wwfus.org, 
johnknox at earthisland.org

++sample letter++

Dear environmental organisation,

Forgive me for taking up a moment of your precious time. I would like to 
discuss the link between chemicals and illnesses and look at ways in which 
we can eliminate dangerous chemicals.

There has been a significant rise in cancer starting shortly after World War 
2 and persisting into the 1990s. The death rate due to all cancer, except 
lung cancer, in people between ages 40 and 45 years, increased six-fold 
between 1950 and 1980, lung cancer ten-fold.

Trends as impressive as these are found, for example, in allergies (asthma) 
especially in children, and dementia (Alzheimer¹s, Parkinson¹s, multiple 
sclerosis), which is increasingly afflicting people below their fifties. 
Autism in children soars at a breath-taking rate: according to official US 
data, the number of affected children increased ten-fold over the past 10 
years and amounts to 120,000 in 2002 in this country (UK).

Since World War 2, some 80,000 man-made chemical substances, for various 
purposes, were brought on the market in varying quantities of up to 100,000 
tonnes a year. These chemicals are used for outdoor and domestic purposes, 
even finding their way onto our tables in the form of food additives and 
pesticides. This suggests a link between the adverse health trends and the 
concomitant introduction of chemicals.

According to the European Commission (EC), only 2% of these chemicals have 
been assessed for the risk they may cause to rodents! In 2003, the EC issued 
the REACH project (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation of Chemicals) in 
which we should know by 2020 the risk of the 100,000 chemicals in rodents. 
Ninety two million animals would be involved.

Non-animal testing is reliable and very fast. They provide definitive 
results within hours, or days at most, valid for humans, while animal 
experimentation lasts for months and years and yield results valid for 
animals only.

Industrial parties seem uninterested in correctly testing chemicals. If they 
have their way we will have dangerous products infiltrating our homes and 
our food just because they were declared safe by flawed (animal) tests.

The board of Alliance for Responsible Science (AFRS), in which the doctors 
and lawyers organisation called Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine 
(DLRM) participates, has worked out a Science Based Toxicology programme 
(SBT) for reliable toxic risk assessment which is valid for humans and 
enable us to forecast long term effects.

The methods proposed are derived from those of modern biology (DNA,chips, 
'reporter' genes etc). They are fast, allowing high throughput of screening 
of chemicals, can be easily robotized, and are cost-effective compared with 
traditional toxicology.

DLRM is campaigning for the adoption of this programme by the EC and EU. 
DLRM believe it could halve the cancer mortality rate over the next five 
years, and would address the wide variety of side effects which have been 
tested by invalid methods.

As I deplore both environmental destruction and cruelty to animals, I hope 
that DLRM's cruelty-free and scientifically-sound programme interests you. 
Further information is available from http://www.dlrm.org

Thank you very much indeed for reading this letter and I hope that we have 
not taken up too much of your time.

Yours sincerely,

3. Information courtesy of http://www.dlrm.org

Please also write to your local newspaper about the scientifically useless 
and very cruel testing methods proposed by the European Union Commission. It 
is vital that individuals know that the EU testing programme is cruel to 
people and animals because it will poison live animals and allow toxic 
chemicals to enter our households and harm us.

To find your local paper's email address enter details on the left of 
http://www.thepaperboy.com

++sample letter++

Dear Editor of letters,

The significant rise in cancer, allergies, dementia and autism coincides 
with the post-World War 2 introduction of 80,000 man-made chemical 
substances (food additive and  pesticides). This suggests a link between the 
two.

The  EU has chemical risk assessment strategy will involve cruel 
experiments, such as poisoning,  on 92 million live animals, including cats, 
dogs and monkeys.  Animal tests are scientifically flawed as a method of 
research for human health because of the anatomical and physiological 
differences between species.  For example, penecillin kills guinea pigs but 
is a very useful antibiotic for humans.

The profit-motivated chemical industry rejects non-animal tests, such as 
DNA, chips and 'reporter' genes, because animal experimentation, handled 
cleverly, permits almost any chemical, even the most dangerous, to be 
declared safe. Why should people, the environment and innocent animals pay 
the price for the chemical industry's greed?

Yours sincerely,

(Name, address and telephone number)

Animal experiments have:
a 63% failure rate when detecting human carcinogens
a 75-95% failure rate for detecting drug side effects
a 70% failure rate for detecting drugs which cause birth defects
Success rates lower than those achieved by uneducated guesswork.

This is not science!!

Recommended website: The Absurdity of vivisection
http://vivisection-absurd.org.uk/

Information on animal research available free by EMail from 
vivisectionkills at hotmail.com

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