Beauty and the Beasts: The U.S. Should Ban Testing Cosmetics on Animals

Written by: Jim Moran and Paul Locke. Published in Scientific American on 5/28/14

On April 15, 1980, animal rights advocate Henry Spira took out a full-page ad in The New York Times to decry the use of animals in the safety testing of cosmetics. “How Many Rabbits Does Revlon Blind for Beauty’s Sake?” the ad asked. The question alluded to the use of the Draize test, which involved dripping substances such as toluene into rabbits’ eyes, causing pain and sometimes blindness… Read the rest of the article in Scientific American.