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Ban cosmetics testing on animals in India:
Debasree Roy
Thursday January 24, 2013 08:20:05 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Describing
testing of cosmetics on animals as "barbaric and cruel", Trinamool
Congress legislator and actress Debasree Roy Thursday urged the
government to ban it in India.
"Animal testing bans in Europe prove that cosmetics animal
suffering is completely unnecessary. India must embrace modern
non-animal technologies available that are more reliable," Roy
said here during an awareness campaign seeking a ban on the
process.
"Why is the government of India still lagging in making a decision
that is so simple," asked Roy at the programme organised by the
Humane Society International (HSI) - an international animal
protection organisation.
Alleging that several cosmetics company unable to do the animal
tests in Europe do it in India, HSI activist Alokparna Sengupta
said that India should not allow these companies to follow this
discriminatory policy and ban the process.
"There is all possibility that European companies perform the
tests in India as they are not allowed back home. The India
government must not allow this discrimination and ban all together
animal testing," she said.
Sengupta also said that there are over 400 cosmetics companies all
over the world which do not resort to animal testing, adding that
there are over 18,000 different reliable chemicals and substances
which can be used to make cosmetics and eliminate the need for
animal testing.
"There are more than 40 non-animal tests that have been validated
for use. Moreover, the reliability of animal testing is far low so
the government must legislate a new law to ban the cruel process,"
added Sengupta.
The HSI has been campaigning worldwide including India seeking ban
on testing cosmetics on animals.
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