I've seen many labels on shampoos and other bath/shower products stating that the 'finished product is not tested on animals'. Does this imply that the product WAS tested on animals at some point in the process of making it? Would that mean that testing during manufacturing doesn't count as testing on animals? Most of all, is this what it sounds like--that they do test on animals at some point, but are trying to get you to believe it isn't tested on them at all? Why can't they just put 'this product is not tested on animals'?
2006-08-28 03:35:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
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2006-08-28 03:35:57 · update #1
Yes, it probably means that the individual ingredients that make up the finished product have in fact been tested on animals (perhaps sometime in the past), but that the assemblage of all those ingredients as a whole in the finished package hasn't been tested.
It does indeed sound like they're trying to make themselves sound better through a loophole, but to my ears, those qualifiers make it sound worse than if they hadn't said anything at all. It's like a politician campaigning that he 'no longer beats his wife', or a motel advertising 'now cockroach free'. Makes me less likely to buy their product than if they hadn't said anything.
2006-08-28 04:50:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think if a label says "this finished product not tested on animals" then maybe some of the ingredients that went into making that product could have been tested on animals, which really makes it pointless, I think. People that are against animal testing want to buy products that have not been tested on animals AT ALL. Why would someone want to buy something that could have been tested on an animal sometime in the process of making it?
2006-08-28 16:17:39 · answer #2 · answered by DikkiJones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct. It means that they are only claiming that the finished product is not tsted on animals, so it could have been tested on animals in the manufacturing process. And yes, it is a way of fooling you into thinking something is not tested on animals. Advertising uses vague wording like that all the time like "virtually fat free" and that sort of thing. Its pretty dishonest.
2006-08-28 10:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to make sure things are safe chemicals have to be tested. unless you're volunteering it's gonna be an animal that takes the hit. it's the way things are done and no computer modeling can't tell us much. the FDA goes ape-**** every time someone gets hurt and though most OTC stuff is unregulated no one wants to be sued so they test it first.
2006-08-28 13:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They could be going on "already founded" research so they have to claim that since somewhere, earlier research WAS done on an animal.
2006-08-28 15:56:06 · answer #5 · answered by not at home 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they put tricky wording on it b/c it probably was tested on animals at some point...isn't half the cosmetics made OF animals?
2006-08-28 10:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by enigma 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How is this a question. Please reread your question and write an actual question. Do you know what a question is? See? That was a question. So was that.
2006-08-28 10:41:51 · answer #7 · answered by IKnowAll 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
THE LAW
2006-08-28 10:38:28 · answer #8 · answered by loligo1 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋