Did you know that there are labels on things that say “finished products not tested on animals?”

Yes indeedy, I heard this from a good pal o’ mine and it’s made me mad enough to rant….so I will.

Gah! Don’t you think it’s bad enough that people try to be over-wordy just so you have no clue what your buying? But nooo, lets take it a step further and make it so that people who don’t really want to use something that has potentially been tested on animals and may or may not have hurt them (m & m’s come on!! …more on that later) and it usually is may, do not doubt it, and trick them into buying something they don’t want to! Labels and loopholes are all fun to use if you’re trying to attack communicate with your favorite author and can’t because of a stupid, unnecessary restraining order…but I digress. What about the steps going up to the finished product? Obviously they have been tested on animals or you wouldn’t have put in the word finished so no one would sue you. Stop testing things on poor critters who have no idea they’re going to be dissected later! I’m not even an animal person (nor do I find any life form important, except for trees) but this is just wrong. Gah!

Do not ask about the m&m thing, I shall not talk about it. But I love m&m’s too. It makes me sad.

Of course this isn’t the thing that gets me really going. I really don’t like animals. I do, but only from a safe distance. And even then…not much. But they’re still people! …sort of…?