A definite reaction-cosmetic & cruelty Do you use cosmetics, perfumes, aerosols, buy unnecessary items of leather and animal hair and skin, wear pearls and silk? If yes then you are the most wanton destroyers of life because the luxury trade that exploits and degrades the world around us is geared to them. Here is what you do every time you sit down at the dressing table: 1. How your talcum powder, lipstick and hair-dye made safe for you to use? A tube is thrust down the throat of thousands of tiny chattering friendly squirrel-monkey squashed together in cages and each item is fed in to find out at which dosage level the animal dies. 2. Perfume uses a civet musk base. The civet is shoved into a 25*30 cm cage where it cannot even raise its head. Every ten days it is whipped because when it is in pain it secretes musk in its pouch. The pouch is then forced open and scraped with a spatula. This is done every ten days till the animal dies --at less than quarter of its normal life-span. 3. A rabbits head is clamped in a clutch and the eyes pegged open with metal clips. Shampoo concentrate is dropped in. The rabbit cries out loud in its agony, struggling till it breaks its back. Over 100,000 rabbit eyes go into just the shampoo trade every year. 4. A timid musk Deer, of which very few are left now, is lured out of the dense Himalayan vegetation and caught in a gin-trap with spiked teeth which bite into the foot. The animal lies there for days till it dies. Then, if it does not have musk (kasturi) needed for a perfume base, it is thrown away as trash. 5. Snakes skin, crocodile skin, lizard skin? The crocodile is hauled up. It is thrashed for hours till it is stabbed in the neck to sever the spinal nerve. the skin on the underside of the belly, is taken for leather and the live crocodile is lowered back into the water for feed. Snake skin is more elastic if taken when the snake is alive. A nail through the head pins it to a tree, a foot holds the writhing tail straight and a knife cuts down each side and the skin is ripped off. The same method is used for lizards. But even ordinary leather? Does it come from the skin of dead animals-- of course it does, those animals that were killed not for meat, but for your shoes and bags. Cows, buffaloes, little calves (nice soft calf-leather for boots) all taken off cattle pounds and killed. Even Stray dogs are taken from municipal compounds and made into dog leather. 6. Pregnant mares make oestrogen for cosmetics. So mare is kept constantly pregnant and since the oestrogen is in the urine she is kept in harness her whole life. the unwanted foals are sold by the perfumery for medical research. 7. The Silk moth pupa concooned in a soft security blanket is thrown into boiling water and cooked till the tread comes off and is made into silk. 20,000 silk moths are boiled alive to make just one kilo silk. Every silk sari you wear has caused the death of at least fifty thousands fellow creatures.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:19:12 +0000
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