Animal Cruelty

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or LD50. In this procedure at least half of the animals must die in order
for the government to figure out how much a human can ingest without dying.

In one such test some animals were fed 4. lb. of lipstick and one ended up
dying of intestinal obstruction. In another, 7 pints of melted eye shadow was
fed to rats. In yet another, mice were wrapped in tin foil and grilled in
ultraviolet light to test a sun block cream for a total of 96 hours. The results
of the test were that the longer the mice stayed in the rays, the more sunburnt
they got.

But that is not all. A wax product used in many cosmetics was dosed into
animals by a stomach tube. The amount that they used is equivalent to feeding 1 «
lb of the stuff to humans. The animals involved soon began salivating, bleeding
from the nose and mouth, and had extreme diarrhoea. As the test progressed some
more, the animals became emaciated and unkempt, had congestion in the lungs and
kidneys and solid wax in the stomach.

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