What does an animal feel when it is vivisected? Pain, fear, suffering, humiliation. Jacqueline Traide, an English performance artist, who voluntarily underwent a very long sequence of tests commonly carried out on animals in the field of cosmetic products, knows this well now.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousWhat does a when animal is vivisected? Pain, fear, suffering, humiliation. She knows it well now Jacqueline Traide, an English performance artist, who voluntarily underwent a very long sequence of tests commonly carried out on animals in the field of cosmetic products.
The young girl, tied up and immobilized, she was so tortured by her colleague, Oliver Cronk, that she took on the role of a laboratory technician, for ten hours in the window of a London shop, in front of the horrified looks of passers-by and wearing only a flesh-colored jumpsuit. Tortured without anesthesia, just like animals do, in the name of "beauty", Jacqueline was forcibly forced to ingest substances, to keep her mouth wide open by a retractor and to suffer the annoyance of irritants injected into her eyes. A hard demonstration, very small part of what happens to animals in laboratories, which was set up by Lush , stores specializing in cosmetics not tested on animals last April 24, on the occasion of the World laboratory animal day.
A terrible demonstration with which the chain, born in 1995 in England, wanted to show what happens to animals that are vivisected and subjected tocosmetic tests. "I hope I have planted the seed of a new awareness in people to really start thinking about what they buy and how it is produced," said the "vivisected" artist.
At the same time, in Milan, at the Lush shop in Milan in via Dante 15, a performance took place in which staff members simulated a boxing match between a scientist and a rabbit. Passers-by were invited to show their support for the campaign by writing their name on the shop window, where the campaign logo stands out, having themselves photographed for "put your face on it”In the fight against animal texts. The staff, moreover, in recent days has made some street raids of "guerrilla action" in various points of the cities, having themselves photographed with a panel bearing the logo of the campaign to raise awareness among citizens on the problem of the unjustified cruelty of animal tests for cosmetics product.
All initiatives, in fact, which are part of the "Struggle to fight animal tests" campaign, promoted by the chain, together withHuman Society International . This is the largest international campaign against animal testing for cosmetic products, with the aim of putting pressure on Europe to bring into force by 2013 the ban on trade in cosmetic products tested on animals foreseen by the Cosmetics Directive.
To sign the petition, you can go to the website or at the Lush shops, from April 17 to 1 May 2012.
