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How Do You Say, 'Animal Testing,' in Japanese? 'Shiseido'
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Our terrific colleagues at Japan Anti-Vivisection Association (JAVA), who often work with PETA Asia Pacific, recently alerted us to Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido's continued reliance on cruel animal tests for its products, which include wrinkle creams and its ironically named ZEN Eau de Parfum. Despite the fact that hundreds of companies worldwide have banned all animal tests forever, Shiseido is still forcing chemicals into animals' stomachs and dripping shampoo into their eyes.
No animal should have to die for lipstick, moisturizer, shampoo, or perfume, so we're helping JAVA step up its efforts to get Shiseido and other Japanese companies to give animal testing the heave-ho. Since Shiseido products are sold around the world, you can help convince the company to choose kindness—just go here to tell Shiseido why you won't be buying into its cruelty.
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Shame! How careless and utterly cruel it is to continue animal testing. For every 1 company still doing it, there's 15 that don't! When will these idiots get a clue.
There are tons of other make-up companies that do not test and offer a vegan line. Go with them instead.
Posted by: Barbara A. Wilson | August 14, 2009 11:12 AM
Ive sent off the email and added my own wording for extra effect, hope they listen and spare these poor animals. its about time people started seeing the bigger picture and stopped this bloody cruelty once and for all. when will they realise that the reaction of animals is different to the reaction of humans. its like trying to educate ants...they never listen.
Posted by: emma | August 14, 2009 11:47 AM
What else do you expect from a company based in a country whose government encourages whale hunting?
Posted by: Rev. Meg Schramm | August 14, 2009 01:00 PM
thank you PETA for doing whtat no one else would do, please japan step outta' the stone ages. what soulless sadistic butchers. words cannot even describe the anger i feel within me. when will they ever learn.
Posted by: vegancoin | August 14, 2009 01:31 PM
I used to use shiseido's product until i gone vegan.
There was once i emailed them questioning them about animal testing, they replied giving many excuses which makes it so stupid to look at it.
So Anyway thanks for posting this, i hope to show this to my friends and urge them not to support their products too.
Posted by: Joyce | August 14, 2009 10:02 PM
Japan is purportedly an enlightened Domocracy but in reference to animal abuse it massacres whales, dolphins, tuna, sharks and lab animals with the the utmost cruelty.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | August 15, 2009 12:32 AM
Wow, How stupid do you think these companies think we are? They must know by know that lots of people know and more will soon to know that they test on animals, all thanks to PETA!
Greatly appreciate all the help you are to the animals
-Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Abby Grigg | August 15, 2009 06:23 PM
Totally against cosmetic testing on animals. Horrible practice.
However:
Anyone who assumes that just because a country is foriegn that they don't have the same moral level as we do in America REALLY needs to chill for a second and look at all the horrible things that happen to animals even here in the states -- we as a society are no better than they are, and just as there are animal activists in this country (both on the sane AND cult-like level), there are individuals in other countries who share the same level of belief in animal rights as anyone who peruses this and other animal welfare sites.
In other words, I'm really tired of people saying, for example, "China sucks, they eat cats!" meanwhile, we in the 'states eat cow, and cows are considered SACRED in India. So think of all the horrible things they say about us IN GENERALIZATIONS, and think about how badly you would like to defend yourself (if you are a vegan, which I'm not).
I know MANY Japanese animal lovers PERSONALLY who live in Japan and who would be apalled to hear about this happening, so I'd like to speak for them -- blame individuals for a deed, not the entire country.
(Not that this article did, by the way, but I felt like some of the replies were heading there.)
Posted by: Sauxyan | August 15, 2009 10:31 PM
UGH! This is disgusting! I would rather give up shampoo and everything tested on animals just so I can save ONE rabbit. Anything to save an animal, I'll do. We humans are disgusting!
Posted by: AnimalLover | August 15, 2009 10:49 PM
I would like to know if its possible to get a list of the major cosmetic companies for over the counter cosmetics that do not use animal testing.
Or how I can be 100% sure the products I use are not tested on animals as many products just don't have anything on the box.
Posted by: sandy king | August 17, 2009 06:31 PM
PLEASE BRING TO EVERYONES ATTENTION THE LIST OF COMPANIES WHO USE ANIMALS FOR TESTING FOR COSMETIC USE. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW SO THAT I NEVER NEVER BUY THEIR PRODUCTS
THANKS
Posted by: SHIREEN MCKEE | August 18, 2009 07:27 AM
what a bloody disgrace! we must boycott this nasty company and spread the word! if i see anybody buying animal-tested products i always point out to them all the animals who suffer horrific tests and it's all b/c people are afraid to grow old! this is vivisection for vanity - there is no excuse!
Posted by: sharon g | August 18, 2009 06:00 PM
What can you expect from a country that culls dolphins in a bay, then massacres them and the water turns pure blood red. And from a country who thinks that it is still ok to kill whales for research" LAMES. over it.
Posted by: TK | August 29, 2009 12:46 AM
these idiots! i love animals and hate to see them in pain
Posted by: lea | September 3, 2009 06:31 PM
each one of us must not buy cosmeticts from companies which is using animal testing
Posted by: yanna athanassiadi | September 13, 2009 12:50 PM
animal testing is all overthe worl with diffrent sorts of animalsand this is my say about animal testing
animal testing should be band beacuseits crulty to animals they cant say what they want to say they must be confused itsnot faireand it shoudl not be allowed i think its redulouise and is just 100/ not faire i think you should listen to what i say and just be on are side from jade naylor
Posted by: jade naylor | September 22, 2009 12:53 PM
I abhor the practice of animal testing and experimentation, wherever it is done. But the illogical cants by some (what else to expect from a country that kills whales, etc.) have no place in combating the torture of animals everywhere. Many many corporations in the U.S. continue to test needlessly on animals, just like Shiseido, and we abuse and kill factory farmed animals far more than is done in Japan. Does that make the U.S. a country that can be dismissed the way Japan has been? Please, the abjection of animals knows no boundaries, national, cultural, or other.
Posted by: Chibi Mie | September 23, 2009 03:53 PM
I abhor the practice of animal testing and experimentation, wherever it is done. But the illogical cants by some (what else to expect from a country that kills whales, etc.) have no place in combating the torture of animals everywhere. Many many corporations in the U.S. continue to test needlessly on animals, just like Shiseido, and we abuse and kill factory farmed animals far more than is done in Japan. Does that make the U.S. a country that can be dismissed the way Japan has been? Please, the abjection of animals knows no boundaries, national, cultural, or other.
Posted by: Chibi Mie | September 23, 2009 06:09 PM
I am wondering if it's correct that Shiseido owns Joico hair products?
That's what it seems like to me after I looked Joico up online.
Posted by: Maria | October 5, 2009 12:04 PM