Tell Avon to Stop Testing on Animals
By Sarah WilhoitTarget: Sheri McCoy, CEO of Avon
Goal: Stop testing cosmetic products on animals.
Avon has a long history of being a cruelty-free company. However, in recent years, the company has started to conduct animal tests overseas. Animal testing is still mandatory for cosmetics is some countries such as China, and when companies such as Avon choose to conduct business there, that company is choosing to endorse animal testing. Avon is no longer cruelty-free and needs to come clean about its animal testing overseas.
Animal testing for cosmetics is an archaic, cruel, and unnecessary practice. Many alternatives are available, such as using synthetic human skin cells, stem cells, and a large database of existing research. No animals need to be tortured and killed for cosmetic products. Animals that are test subjects undergo numerous forms of abuse, such as having chemicals dropped in their eyes, being force-fed toxic mixtures, and having their skin smeared with chemical-ridden ointments. These animals are often injured and ultimately killed in the process.
Avon used to be an industry leader in ensuring that no animals were injured or killed in the production of its products. Now, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has removed its endorsement of Avon as a cruelty-free company. Please ask Avon to stop animal testing.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Sheri McCoy, CEO of Avon,
Until recently, your company was an industry leader in refusing to test your products on animals. However, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, you have recently begun ordering animal tests on your facilities overseas, particularly in China, where animal testing is compulsory for cosmetics. These animal tests are cruel and unnecessary, since so many safe alternatives exist in the modern world. As you know, using synthetic skin cells, stem cells, or preexisting research has enabled many cosmetic companies to remain truly cruelty-free.
Animal test subjects undergo horrendous abuse. Chemicals are squeezed into their eyes, causing searing pain and blindness. They also suffer from horrible skin conditions and often die during the animal testing process. These animals are kept in small cages, terrified and in pain. This abuse is unnecessary to ensure that your products meet safety standards and is not required in the United States.
Avon consumers have trusted your company to remain cruelty-free. Please stop all animal testing.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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32 Comments
You have gone for years without animal testing, I will never buy another Avon product until you stop – SHAME ON YOU
This makes me sick!! How companies will have someone else do their testing and trying to be sneaky about it!! NO MORE Avon and other brands that use animals for MAKEUP!! I will let everyone and anyone that will listen know this! I hope in time there will be NO testing for any reason on animals. I would like “testing” to be done on all these murderers,child molesters, and all those other monsters behind bars. After all, testing is done for human purposes also. What better “subject” than a human? IF you would call these “people” humans.
Mi fanno letteralmente vomitare, so di essere umano, e non mi vanto affatto.
Animal Testing is ineffective for human application, cruel and unnecessary for animals. I have will never buy Avon again as long as this nonsense is going on and I will share the information with everybody I know…!!!
animal testing is done for legal reasons, NOT scientific ones.
These companies (Avon,Revlon,Mary Kay,Yves Rocher) who were cruelty free and now chose to test just so they could sell to china – suck!
Look for the Leaping Bunny or other certified non animal testing sign (keep in mind, some will say – not tested on animals but they just have an outside lab do the testing> many are very sneaky!)
You would get my business until you stop this what the hell is wrong with you people is so bad for business you have to do this i hope you go under big time ashamed i ever bought from you
I have been a loyal customer for YEARS. Well guess what. I will NEVER buy any crap from AVON again and I am going to tell EVERY PERSON I COME INTO CONTACT WITH what they are doing. Avon will soon be a thing of the past. You are going down. You wana hurt innocent animals, you will have NO customers. What idiots.
I think it’s very sad you feel the need to peddle your wares to China. They have a shameful attitude/disregard to animal welfare what with their skinning animals alive for fur, heinous bile “farming” of moon bears, the list is endless. As a formerly compassionate company, you should be BOYCOTTING China, not supporting its culture of animal cruelty. You will lose a lot of public support for this, customers & maybe even agents. Is this what you really want? Have compassion, remember your good-hearted roots..please!
Shame on Avon, Shame on all other Nazi Experimenters, Slave Masters and Exploiters…Have you no Scruples, Shame?
The people that buy animal tested stuff are just as bad as the people that test on them !
BOICOT TIME!!!!! NO MORE AVON!
Signed! Please sign this petition too!
Pain is not beautiful.
That means no Avon for me.
As long as you are testing on animals, I will not buy your product anymore.
I am an independent AVON rep. I am upset upon learning this. I do also want to point out that the products that avon sells in the US are tested on humans, not animals. Also, my understanding is Avon submits all data to the Chinese Government to let them know the products are safe and don’t need to be tested on animals because they have already been tested on humans. China is the one who has the final say. I agree that Avon should not do any sort of animal testing. With that I want you to know that Mary Kay, and Estee Lauder do the same. I would like a petition started against the Chinese Government.
Hopefully since these products have been tested on humans and are safe, they won’t affect the animals. That’s my hope. I have no clue though. I want Avon to hear about this and respond to it.
Hi Amy, I hope you are passing on the disgust consumers feel with AVON using products that are tested on Animals….Profit does not justify cruelty….Please pass on the amount of anger consumers are feeling about AVON allowing the testing to take place. I for one will never purchase an AVON product again…I only purchase cruelty free products…
I signed.
I will no longer be buying Avon products due to overseas animal testing
Bonjour. Saw it on the internet, must be true eh? Please educate yourselves.
AVON does NOT do animal testing UNLESS a country requires it by law and then only for specific products.
http://www.avoncompany.com/corporatecitizenship/corporateresponsibility/resourcecenter/policies_and_procedures/animal_welfare.html
China requires it for all products used or consumed by humans. So
either Avon is not selling products to china or they are testing on animals.
Ken: You’re obviously posting as a shill for AVON. Your comment is a complete cop-out, and doesn’t in any way abrogate the fact that the company DOES carry out tests on animals in China.
If you check, you’ll also find that the vast majority of AVON cosmetics are manufactured in China.
Your lame excuse that animal testing is not done “unless a country requires it” is disingenuous, and ultimately an empty claim which is meant simply to deflect criticism and/or confuse any uninformed buyers.
Your assertion that this only applies to “specific products” is also meaningless, as Chinese law covers ALL cosmetic products from ALL manufacturers.
The nonsensical disclaimer on AVON’s web site should be seen for the source of misinformation that it is: a defense based on consumer ignorance.
AVON is controlled by profit….I will NEVER purchase one more AVON product…Spreading the word!!!
i use to buy A LOT OF AVON PRODUCTS now i cant xxx
Absolutely disgusted and apalled.
You are utterly evil and torturing innocents will give you eternity in hell.
Stop NOW.
Your products are B grade crap anyway, so stop the useless pointless torture. It is barbaric and behind the times. There are ways to test productshumanely. You dont have decent products all that you have is monsterous garbage from hell made by satans flock.
I will make sure everyone I know and dont know, knows about your selfish practices. Shame on you!
I will never buy avon again it dont matter if they stop testing on animals right now or down the line just for the simple fact they even started testing on animals shows how cruel and what Hippocrates they are just by saying they are cruel free. If u wanna test on something test on some some one with no morals or feeling for living creatures well being like child molesters, rapers, cereal killers !
Stop testing and experiments on animals now.. no question just do it!
I used Avon since I was a child. However, never, ever again will I buy your crap. All for profit eh??? Shame on the lot of you. Sleep soundly at night knowing you are making a quick buck whilst animals suffer?? There is no need to test on animals…… we are now living in the 21st century and are supposed to be a civilised society. You have lost my business and many others for good as I work in the beauty industry and deal with many clients who have been informed of your inhumane policies….
I will never buy Avon again, even if the stop testing. The fact that they lied to us, tells me they are corrupt.
Until these companies like Avon, Clinique, L’Occitane, Yves Rocher, Caudalie, Mary Kay, Estee Lauder, Revlon, Garnier, L’Oreal, Chanel,Johhnson & Johnson, FCUK, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, Lancomb, Yardley, etc…. China will have no reason to look at its outdated and cruel practices and see reason to cease their mandatory laws of animal testing!
It is up to these companies, en masse, to start managing their business with a conscience and make a stand to not sell in China. China will then have no option but to dismiss these laws and start to look at other options!
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