Direct action: progress, peril, or both?

Article Abstract:

Animal rights advocates are considering adopting the approach of direct action in order to generate enough support and interest for their cause. Direct action has proven to be a powerful method for swaying public opinion about issues in the past such as civil rights, suffrage, and slavery.

Analysis, Political aspects, Animal rights movement, Direct action

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Progress in product testing

Article Abstract:

Animal rights activists have found minor victories in pressuring manufacturers to eliminate product testing on animals. Laws have been introduced in the senate and state levels, while cosmetic companies have also successfully marketed products not tested on animals.

Reports

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The paradigm of progress

Article Abstract:

The obstacles facing the banning of the use of animals to test cosmetics and drugs in the US are described, with focus on the problem of convincing the regulatory bodies and industry that alternative tests are valid.

Laws, regulations and rules, Testing, Cosmetics, Toxicology

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