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Animal Testing - Dying for Botox?

Following our last post Animal Testing #1, on the use of animal testing for a range of products, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, we’re going to turn our radar on one of the great crimes of the 21st century - the animal testing of Botox.

That’s right. If you didn’t know, extensive animal testing was and is still being done to ever refine the potency and effectiveness of that scourge of vanity and the endless pursuit of the elusive fountain of assumed youth, Botox.

While Botox does have some serious therapeutic applications, increasingly many animals die for nothing more serious than to smooth out wrinkles on people who refuse to allow nature to take its course.

Whether it is to be used for therapeutic or cosmetic application, each and avery batch of Botox must be thoroughly tested before Allergan, the company that manufactures Botox under licence, is permitted to release it to the doctors and dermatologists who will use it.

The sad fact is that in order to determine the correct potency of Botox, the key ingredient of which is botulinum toxin which is the most poisonous substance known to mankind, Allergan must use a highly questionable test known as LD50. Its sole purpose is to find the precise dose that will kill 50% of the animals used in the test. The full name of that test, by the way, is “Lethal Dose 50 Percent”.

If you think that is outrageous, you are not alone.

The society known as the “Humane Society of the United States” believes this must end. They want your assistance. They’re urging consumers who use Botox purely for vanity and cosmetic purposes to boycott the product until Allergan stops animal testing on it. Period.

Or you could write to Allergan to express your concerns about the LD50 test. For your information, this test subjects animals to paralysis and death just so people can look younger. If you feel strobgly enough about this, you can contact David E.I. Pyott, chief executive officer of Allergan. You can tell him that you don’t think mice should die in the name of individual vanity. You can contact him via the address and phone number below.

Contact:
David E.I. Pyott
Chief Executive Officer
Allergan, Inc.
2525 Dupont Dr.
Irvine, CA 92612-1599
714-246-4500

If enough people get behind this, then animal testing will stop and other ways will have to be found. Or better still, dump Botox in the trash where it belongs.

People who are vain and stupid enough to use botox to smooth out natural wrinkles are fooling no one - we who don’t use it call you “plastic face”. Maybe more people should call you that to your plastic face and you might get the message.

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