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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:49:18
Dave Navarro is putting a face—and a his well-built, heavily tattooed body—to the hundreds of thousands of animals worldwide who are poisoned, blinded, and killed every year in tests for the cosmetics industry.
In the edgy new PETA campaign, which was shot by top celebrity photographer Joseph Cultice, a nude Navarro appears bleeding from his eyes and from abraded patches of skin on his bare legs and torso next to the words "Animal Testing Kills: Choose Cruelty-Free."
It's graphic, but it gets the point across.
"They're not taking a bunny rabbit and putting mascara on it. They're injecting a chemical directly into its eye to see what kind of adverse reaction happens to it," Navarro stressed in an on-set PETA interview. "In many cases, parts of their body are ripped open. They're all alive, and they're all aware. It's torture for the animal, it's terrifying and painful and probably one of the cruelest things done in the name of vanity."
To test cosmetics, household cleaners, and other consumer products, rats, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, and other animals are force-fed chemicals or have harsh substances dripped into their eyes or rubbed onto their raw, abraded skin—even though the results of animal tests are not applicable to humans. It's certainly horrifying. That's why we shop in cruelty-free fashion, and we encourage people to follow suit.
While these tests are required in China and some other countries, they are not required by law in the U.S. and have been banned in the European Union and Israel.
Want to know which companies don't use these tests?
LUSH, Urban Decay, Paul Mitchell Systems, The Body Shop, Seventh Generation and others have signed PETA's statement of assurance that they use only modern, non-animal methods to test their products and ingredients. PETA's global list of cruelty-free cosmetics and household-product companies is available www.peta.org.
What did you think of Dave Navarro's ad? Did it inspire you to adopt a cruelty-free stance?
—Emily Blume
01.10.13
