“No more invasive biomedical testing should be performed on sentient and complex animals like primates, dogs and cats. Even rats have been proved highly intelligent and capable of feeling fear and pain. Animals can’t talk for themselves so we need to be their voices and bring their plight out into the daylight.”
– Jane Goodall
“Testing cosmetics on animals is a cruel, outdated and unnecessary practice. Our nation’s largest trading partner — the European Union — has banned the sale of animal-tested cosmetics and proven it is possible to produce safe cosmetics without harming animals.”
– Bob Barker
“Science and research do not compel us to tolerate…the careless and callous handling of animals in some of our laboratories.”
– Lyndon Johnson
“Why (test cosmetics) on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything wrong?”
– Ellen DeGeneres
“The federal government does not provide funding for some medical procedures because a significant number of people object to them. Then why does the federal government provide funding for laboratory experiments involving animals?”
– Maria Palondi
“Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is, ‘Because the animals are like us.’ Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is, ‘Because the animals are not like us.'”
– Charles Magel
“I wish that medical researchers who experiment on animals would experiment on humans to try to find a cure for their insensitivity to the suffering of animals.”
– Rhonda Stagg
“The price is never right on products tested on animals.”
– Bob Barker
