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8 March 2012 Have your say
This year we want to give Facebook a makeover during World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 21 – 29) to unite Facebook citizens against cruelty and help raise awareness about animal testing. But we need your help to do it!
Many people don't know that some of the most popular brands of cosmetics and household products are still tested on animals. Buying cruelty-free sends a critical message to the big animal abusers like Colgate/Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, and L'Oreal, and helps to free animals from painful and lethal tests in laboratories.
Simply by changing your Facebook profile pic you can help show others how easy it is to be cruelty-free, and give bunnies a break this Easter. Let's get thousands of bunnies on Facebook demanding an end to animal testing!
To join the makeover simply follow these steps:
- Click here to download the campaign image and save it to your hard drive.
- Sign in to Facebook and on your profile page hover your mouse over your profile picture and select Edit Profile Picture > Upload photo...
- Select the campaign image that you downloaded to your hard drive.
That's it! To make an even bigger impact, make sure you tag your friends in the picture so that they can discover how to join the makeover too! Here's how:
- On your Profile page, click Photos
- Click Profile Pictures
- Click on the newly uploaded campaign picture
- Click Tag Photo and then click in the centre of the image and enter the name of one of your friends. Repeat to tag other friends.
- You can also click the edit symbol to add your own description to the photo. Here you might like to explain to your friends why you think animal testing needs to end.
Don't forget to like the Animals Australia facebook page to see hundreds of other caring Facebook citizens joining in with you!
For more ways to celebrate a cruelty-free Easter click here.
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Katan Deville:
Science in grave disrepute
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 at 12:50pm
Science has become such an ill-reputed field now that I am ashamed to call myself a scientist. As consumers, we each have to uncover the products being churned out as a result of these barbaric practices and make concerted efforts to boycott each and every one.
Katie Goldspink:
Great idea
Friday, 15 April 2011 at 11:29am
i have posted your Don't beat up on the Easter Bunny on my facebook profile pic, i hope i see alot more profile pic's being changed!
Emma:
Drug companies
Friday, 15 April 2011 at 11:20am
Does everyone realize that every medication that you have taken and will ever take is tested on animals? it isn't just the cosmetics industry that we need to focus on. The cosmetics industry is only a very small slice of the pie
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Fiona Collingridge:
Hypocrisy of animal testing.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011 at 5:54pm
It's so easy to fall into the trap of using the make up you prefer and turning a blind eye to the fact they may test on animals, but when I see the images of what many cosmetic companies do to these beautiful animals, it makes my make up run anyway, so use cruelty free, and truly free these beautiful beings from the Hypocrisy.
Madeleine Thai:
Save bunnies this easter
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 7:18pm
I believe that products should not be tested on animals like bunnies because god said that we should be caring to the animals he created. Bunnies are one of the creatures god created and I hope that we can raise money to help prevent products being tested on animals.
Ros Stiles:
OMG - I had no idea
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 6:51pm
I dont use cosmetics much and they are usually locally made and natural but I had no idea that this is still happening and that governments actually let it happen. How can this sort of cruelty be allowed to continue and what the heck is the United Nations doing about it.
Rico:
Life style.
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 12:21pm
Friends, please check if your life style is supporting this kind of actions towards other creatures. There is not point in complaining if you are consuming products or paying for services which damage our natural environment. You can do so much just by been more conscious and careful of the way you live. The current general diet is the most destructive factor ever of our natural resources and environment.
Let's try to be more conscious of our own actions; it will make a lot of difference. Thanks. Your friend. Rico www.ricos.com.au
Let's try to be more conscious of our own actions; it will make a lot of difference. Thanks. Your friend. Rico www.ricos.com.au
Kitsa Talianas:
Easter is about compassion
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 11:45am
We need to STOP this cruelty. Spread the word because so many people just don't realise what is still happening as far as animal testing goes. Animals ROCK!!!
Meghan Bond:
Love Easter, Love Animals
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 9:19am
The Easter Bunny has become a cultural Icon.
This is such an important cause to highlight.
Cruelty is not right and must be resisted in all forms.
This is such an important cause to highlight.
Cruelty is not right and must be resisted in all forms.
Christine Stevenson:
Can't we get this right!!!!!
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 at 7:30am
I am gobbed smacked, to discover that because a loop hole in our politics..animal testing is still allowed overseas and then sold in australia.
Can this goverment get anything right???
The thought of dripping chemical in the eyes of these poor little creatures for testing makes me ill.!!!!!
Can this goverment get anything right???
The thought of dripping chemical in the eyes of these poor little creatures for testing makes me ill.!!!!!
Ravi:
Christians,lent,Easter and geuine compassion and honesty
Monday, 11 April 2011 at 11:53pm
Dear Folks at home and abroad,
Would it be great that over two billion Christians world over after fasting or sacrificing something in memory and in companionship of Jesus christ,who fasted for 40 days in the desert with no food but dew,dates and all were to follow his example and give up meat for 40 days and love bunnies as per Australian Animal welfare societys email.
Indeed,in Shakespeares play when there was so racism,antisemtism against Jews in Italy,captured in Merchent of Venice when Shylock asks for a pound of flesh nearest the heart to the dismay,angst and disgust of the christian folks of the time.But Shlock replies and complains that he is following the Christians rulles and only asking what the contract stipulates and he had been spate upon and Jews were chucked over the bridge in the film with Robert de niro.
Also,in the recent case when Ed Miliband won the labour leadership against his brother,Labour acting leader harriet Hramn,clapped when Ed Miliband denounced the illegal war in Iraq when david Miliband tunred on her and said that in fact she had supported the war.
hence,wouldnt it be great fro Christians to restore thier credibility as honest,caring and comppasionate folks if they were to stop animal testing on Bunnies and go an extra mile to be vegans.
Show 1 replyWould it be great that over two billion Christians world over after fasting or sacrificing something in memory and in companionship of Jesus christ,who fasted for 40 days in the desert with no food but dew,dates and all were to follow his example and give up meat for 40 days and love bunnies as per Australian Animal welfare societys email.
Indeed,in Shakespeares play when there was so racism,antisemtism against Jews in Italy,captured in Merchent of Venice when Shylock asks for a pound of flesh nearest the heart to the dismay,angst and disgust of the christian folks of the time.But Shlock replies and complains that he is following the Christians rulles and only asking what the contract stipulates and he had been spate upon and Jews were chucked over the bridge in the film with Robert de niro.
Also,in the recent case when Ed Miliband won the labour leadership against his brother,Labour acting leader harriet Hramn,clapped when Ed Miliband denounced the illegal war in Iraq when david Miliband tunred on her and said that in fact she had supported the war.
hence,wouldnt it be great fro Christians to restore thier credibility as honest,caring and comppasionate folks if they were to stop animal testing on Bunnies and go an extra mile to be vegans.
SIMONE CASARELLI:
see this
Monday, 11 April 2011 at 11:37pm
no more cruelty on animals
See also:Help end experiments on primatesWIN a cruelty-free gift from Perfect Potion!Opinion: Cosmetic companies in cruelty cover-upOpinion: Fewer Animals in Laboratories Is Good for All of UsIndian govt bans use of live animals for education, researchFact Sheet: Animal Experimentation
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To that end, I would like to ask if you would consider adding to your Easter Plea. Back in 1991; The Foundation for a Rabbit Free Australia patternted 'The Chocolate Easter Bilby'. Most people are completely unaware of what they are doing when they puchase these Bilby Alternatives.
Part of the money made from every chocolate bilby goes towards the Foundation, Feral.org & the Centre for Invasive Species to continue to fund their extermination of the wild rabbit population.
Whether rabbits are considered pests or not; PET RABBITS also suffer as a result. The funding coming from these Chocolate Bilbies, firstly distributed by Haighs Chocolate, went into importing another TEN STRAINS of Rabbit Haemmorragic Disease, (of which the vaccine is illegal in Australia. My own rabbit died from this horror. I would love to see you guys add a bit of a highlight on the Chocolate Bilby Issue as people need to know that they are not just buying an Aussie Alternative to the Easter Bunny... they are contributing funding to rabbit expirementation.