SkinEthic, the subsidiary of L'Oreal that develops the "artificial skin", has used human infant foreskins in their laboratories. In my view, infant genital mutilation is on par with animal testing (both parties are helpless, unable to consent and unable to escape). Therefore, Skinethic and L'Oreal should be boycotted on those grounds alone.
If we accept your premise: people who make decisions at insurance companies determined that their companies would fund infant genital mutilation.
Their choice to fund infant genital mutilation is not evidence that it the practice is ethically acceptable, it is only evidence that they consider it acceptable.
This is actually addressing the original post, I promise :)
A friend of mine mentioned that companies like L'Oreal have stopped testing on animals, but still outsource the testing of individual ingredients to companies that do use animal testing. So indirectly, at least, it sounds every L'Oreal product is the result of animal testing that's still happening.
He got his info here, about how the ingredients they use have been tested on animals, but not recently enough to call it 'animal testing' according to their definition of the term.
Outsourcing... yuck! They're still responsible for the tests, then, by supporting the testers... so, once again, lying to consumers, really... I didn't know Vichy was animal-product-free... but I tend to stick to Lush or edible extra virgin oils for moisturiser though! It's easier than keeping track of everything that goes on in big companies... ack.
Yeah I think Lush is gonna be where I go to get my cleanser, after I return this one. At least I can trust there will be no animal testing, and most of their products are vegan.
they are still on petas list I don't believe this is a mistake. If you read their site it says they don't test finished products on animals. Not that they don't test
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SkinEthic, the subsidiary of L'Oreal that develops the "artificial skin", has used human infant foreskins in their laboratories. In my view, infant genital mutilation is on par with animal testing (both parties are helpless, unable to consent and unable to escape). Therefore, Skinethic and L'Oreal should be boycotted on those grounds alone.
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Their choice to fund infant genital mutilation is not evidence that it the practice is ethically acceptable, it is only evidence that they consider it acceptable.
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A friend of mine mentioned that companies like L'Oreal have stopped testing on animals, but still outsource the testing of individual ingredients to companies that do use animal testing. So indirectly, at least, it sounds every L'Oreal product is the result of animal testing that's still happening.
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