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From:	greentomato (adsl-68-22-71-222.dsl.mdsnwi.ameritech.net)
Subject:	vegsource.com hypocrisy
Date:	July 6, 2007 at 3:06 pm PST

I'm not so much stressed as I am disappointed and annoyed, so I don't know that this post belongs here, however:

I sent an email to vegsource.com on Fri Dec 22, 2006 which read:
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"Your website is featuring an ad for a product (Whitestrips) made by the toothpaste brand Crest. I'd like to register my surprise and displeasure over this, since it is well known that Crest actively engages in animal-testing.

I understand the need to have advertising on your website for financial support, but how about doing a better job screening the advertisers and/or the ads?"
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I never received a reply, and the same product continues to be advertised on the site.

Proctor & Gamble, the makers of Crest products, continues to test on animals. From the Peta website: (http://www.peta.org/Living/at-winter1999/toothpaste.html):
"While P&G has stopped animal tests for all its existing cosmetics and household products it has refused to stop such tests for new products ingredients and for its current oral care products. In fact, the company clearly demonstrated its values of profit over pain when it tested Crest and Enamelon (its competitor’s toothpaste) on rats just so that it could use the results of the test to denigrate its competitor at a conference in France. P&G is now working with oral care researchers, at PETA’s prompting, to develop a non-animal fluoride efficacy test to replace the cruel, outdated rat test. Unlike other companies, Procter & Gamble has not submitted its own non-animal test to the FDA, although the company claims that "a [non-animal] test is technically achievable." P&G sells Crest and Gleem toothpaste."

Would anyone from vegsource.com care to respond in a public forum, since a private attempt at communication on the issue failed?

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