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Maria
Good for them - I wonder what % "mostly" means, though?
cleo
Sorry Shiseido, you still don't get it. If the 'only way to prove a product is safe' is to test it on animals, that product needs to be changed, not your we're just doing what we can to hang on to the EU market watered-down new official policy.
Of course it can. Many other companies do. So what's with the 'mostly' and 'only way of proving' cop-out?
My custom still goes to the companies with no cop-outs, even if it does mean having to order brown mascara from the UK.
Philomena Marino
Better than nothing . Europe is giving up animal testing all together. The USA ,the "scientists" that get paid to do this testing,are so stupid ,that doing the same tests ,on the same animals,with the same results,after 65 years ,still doesn't hit it home for them,I must conclude that scientists in the USA are all quite stupid .
mrmalice
it's a start, i suppose getting humans to test on requires paying them while these animals are probably killed and dumped when the testing is over. Where do i sign? i'm broke enough to try that atm ?
nandakandamanda
It has taken Shiseido about sixty years to bend, and even then not for ethical but for market reasons.
Speedy or what?
Moonraker
What with this great news and the possible abandonment of this year's whale slaughter, perhaps there is an overdue change in the way animals are treated in Japan, from battery hens and laboratory rats, through slaughtered pigs and exploited racehorses to sharks and bears. A nice spirit of compassion might be on its way and the media may begin to expose the former cruelty to the concerned masses. Maybe.