Peta sent me an email stating that they are working with the Institute for In Vitro Sciences which apparently educates scientist in China on non-animal testing methods.
Everything helps, right?!
Here's what Peta sent me:
Thank you for writing to us about MAC. Estée Lauder, MAC’s parent company, was included on PETA’s cruelty-free list for more than two decades, so we were stunned to learn that it is paying for tests on animals in China. This means that Estée Lauder no longer qualifies to be listed as cruelty-free, and we have removed it from our list of companies that have permanently banned all tests on animals and added it to our list of companies that
do test on animals.
Estée Lauder has also changed the language in the animal testing policies of its subsidiary brands, which are listed at http://www.elcompanies.com/Pages/Our-Brands.aspx. We are currently trying to clarify whether these brands are still cruelty-free or whether they are also marketing in China, and they have been removed from our “don’t test” list until we receive clarification.
Because tests on animals are required by the Chinese government before many cosmetics products can be marketed in China, some companies choose not to sell their products there. We urge you to support these companies and continue to purchase products from the more than 1,000 companies on our cruelty-free list, which can be found athttp://www.PETA.org/living/beauty-and-personal-care/companies/default.aspx.
Through a generous grant given to PETA, we are now supporting the efforts of the Institute for In Vitro Sciences (http://www.iivs.org), which is providing training for scientists in China in the use of non-animal test methods and working with officials to accept the non-animal methods that are used in the U.S., the European Union, and much of the world. We are urging Estée Lauder to contribute significantly to this effort to hasten the process.
To learn more about non-animal methods and how PETA has been instrumental in the acceptance of these tests by governments around the world, please visit http://www.PETA.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/peta-scientific-papers-and-presentations.aspx.
We hope that you will continue to purchase products from the more than 1,000 companies on our cruelty-free list, which can be found athttp://www.PETA.org/living/beauty-and-personal-care/companies/default.aspx.
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Thanks again for writing and for everything that you do to help animals.
Sincerely,
The PETA Staff
I hope that business lost in the U.S. and other countries will more than offset any gains from marketing in China.