Imagine a syringe being forced down your throat and a massive chemical dose pumped into your stomach, or being squeezed into restraints and forced to breathe toxic vapours for hours. From drugs to pesticides and household cleaners, chemicals and products of all descriptions are still being tested in massive doses on dogs, mice, rabbits and other animals.
HSI's Science Team has been instrumental in securing the largest-ever reduction in government animal testing requirements through our public policy efforts in Europe. Now we're working to extend these life-saving precedents globally and spare countless more animals in North and South America, Asia, and beyond.
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Chemicals
New laws are requiring companies to submit large quantities of test data, which could mean suffering and death for tens of millions of animals.
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Pesticides
10,000 or more dogs, rabbits and other animals may be killed to meet government requirements for the safety testing of a single new pesticide chemical.
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Shellfish Toxins
Hundreds of thousands of mice each year die in agony after they are injected with extracts of shellfish meat to test for harmful toxins, yet superior non-animal tests exist.
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Support Our Work
HSI's high-impact campaigns are achieving major reductions in animal testing around the world, but millions more animals need our help, and we need your help to save them.
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News
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February 25, 2013
As Europe Bans Sale of Animal-Tested Cosmetics, LUSH and HSI CEOs Call for Global End to Cosmetics Cruelty
As the European Union prepared to finally ban the sale of newly animal-tested cosmetics on 11 March 2013 LUSH & Humane Society International sent an open letter to the global cosmetics industry calling on it to abandon animal testing once and for all.
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February 25, 2013
Enquanto a Europa proíbe a venda de cosméticos testados em animais, diretores da LUSH e HSI pedem que a indústria de beleza brasileira acabe com a crueldade dos cosméticos
O Co-Fundador e Diretor da LUSH Cosméticos Mark Constantine e Andrew Rowan, Diretor e Presidente da HSI, escreveram uma carta aberta para pedir a indústria global de cosméticos para que acabem com a experimentação animal de uma vez por todas.
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February 1, 2013
HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Makes Progress in Korea
HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Director, Troy Seidle, recently visited Korea for an intensive series of governmental and corporate meetings and public awareness events aimed at building support for legislation to ban the use of animals for cosmetic testing.
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January 2, 2013
HSI’s Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Hails Israeli Sales Ban on Animal-Tested Cosmetics “Truly Historic”
Humane Society International, on behalf of our partners in the global Be Cruelty-Free campaign to end cosmetics animal testing, cautiously welcomed the enactment of a new law banning the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in Israel.