{"id":2117,"date":"2005-01-28T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T17:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/28\/\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T17:45:59","slug":"2117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/2117\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/proctor-and-gamble.jpg\" alt=\"Procter &amp; Gamble logo\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Bad news for animal lovers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandgkills.com\/\" rel=\"external\">Procter and Gamble<\/a> will now have an excuse to unnecessarily test the side-effects of razorblades and ingested battery acid on small animals, just because they can. An estimated 50,000 animals die at the hands of Procter &amp; Gamble every year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/4214485.stm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Procter &amp; Gamble are to aquire Gillette for $57bn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This deal is going to create the greatest consumer products company in the world,&#8221; said Mr Buffet an American investment guru, who is also Gillette&#8217;s largest shareholder. &#8220;It&#8217;s a dream deal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where did they get so much money in the first place? From us. We are the consumers who don&#8217;t take the time to check the branding at the back of the box. We can&#8217;t be bothered to try other products that haven&#8217;t been tested on animals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Procter &amp; Gamble doesn&#8217;t care because the consumer doesn&#8217;t care. Its as simple as that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/pg-lab.jpg\" alt=\"A Procter &amp; Gamble lab - rabbits held in restraints in rows, researchers standing behind them\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>Although I sometimes feel I&#8217;m fighting this battle alone, I will continue to do my bit to boycott P&amp;G. My money will not fund animal torture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These are P&amp;G products to look out for:<\/strong> Olay, Max Factor, Pringles, Bold, Flash, ACE (bleach), Febreze, Bounce, Downy (fabric softner), Hugo Boss, Daz, Fairy, Tide, Lacoste, Always, TAMPAX, Sunny Delight, Iams\/Eukanuba, Head &amp; Shoulders and soon to include Gilette, Venus, Duracell, Oral-B.<\/p>\n<p>Over 500 companies produce like-for-like products which are safe for consumers, that are no longer or have never been tested on animals. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncaged.co.uk\/pg.htm\" rel=\"external\">uncaged.co.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethical-business.com\/?sect=detail&amp;pet=111\" rel=\"external\">You can pledge to boycott P&amp;G products until they stop testing on animals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please spread the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for animal lovers, Procter and Gamble will now have an excuse to unnecessarily test the side-effects of razorblades and ingested battery acid on small animals, just because they can. An estimated 50,000 animals die at the hands of Procter &amp; Gamble every year. Procter &amp; Gamble are to aquire Gillette for $57bn &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}