Interesting article to which I read with great interest as I am one of those people who wholeheartedly believe from logic, commonsense, ethics and plain and simple compassion and an innate link to animals that animals should NOT be used for testing under any circumstance any more.

I understand why there was a need from a scientific and medical perspective to experiment on animals, but that need is no longer there as there are other alternatives and we are now in the 21st century, not the dark ages where they had no idea and would sacrifice animals to appease the gods after a bad crop.

How absolutely absurd that was and still is for the contemporary religious and cultural 'festivals' that still do the same in this day and age.

As you inferred, animals are physiologicaly no different to humans and suffer many of the same ailments, which is only absolute logic that they do, however they do not get a choice whether they want to become involved in those clinical trials- like we humans do.

Most humans are appalled and horrified by the atrocious experiments conducted on so many millions by the Nazi party, but have no problem of letting some psychopath in a white lab coat do the same to another groups of beings.

Both groups were and are forced to participate with no choice, but yet one group has been seeking justice with the support of the world over ever since while the other still suffers and apart from the physical appearance, there is no difference between each group. They are both living, breathing, sentient beings, deserving no less than each other.

So it is so simple to me and many others. Vivisection must stop for so many reasons, including the use of animals in the cosmetic industry.

If the 'scientists' and I say that word very loosely...have any inkling that the material that they are using to create a product has any chance of being toxic- then don't use it!

It really is as simple as that, therefore they won't need to test it on animals and will know right from the start that it is safe for humans.

And it does not take a scientist to know that if you stick ANYTHING in an eye- animal or human, that it's damn well going to hurt. Even a child knows that!

Again, plain and simple logic dictates that you do not need an animal to tell you that it's going to hurt if you get that shampoo/mascara/lipstick/foundation in your eye, therefore, no need to test on animals and I don't care how hard that these sociopaths try to justify the use of animals in any scientific experiment, there is no reason and no excuse, not even under the guise of medical science any more.

And if humans do get shocked by the stinging pain in their eyes when they do get any kind of cosmetics in them, then that serves themselves right for being so bloody brainless in the first place.

And if there are people out there that don't like my comment here, well lets see them put their hand up to volunteer to be an actual lab rat/cat/dog/mouse/etc, because I know that they won't.