I’m planning to start a Project 52! I would never be able to complete a 365 project, so I’ve decided to do a 52 weeks one instead. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and decided the time has come for me to just jump into it! If you’re wondereing, Project 365 is a project where you take one picture each day, and in Project 52 you take one picture each week. It’s orignally supposed to be pictures of yourself, but I don’t want to take pictures of myself, so I’m just gonna use a random picture I took each week. I will post my weekly picture each Sunday at my flickr account. Anyone wanna join me with this project? I’m starting this week, and will post my first picture this Sunday

One thing I feel very strongly about is animal rights and cruelty against animals. And when it comes to animal testing it is one of the few things I can’t accept other people for having a different opinion than me. I know, that’s not very nice, but atleast I’m up front about it, lol

I just don’t understand how anyone can feel it’s ok to hurt an animal in the first place, and to torture one just to make yourself look good? I talked to a girl once and she just laughed at me being against animal testing “so what, I don’t care if they put some mascara into some animals eyes”. I was shocked, how she could like animals, but still care so little about them. How some, actually most, people forget that animals are living beings as well. They are worth just as much as us, don’t forget people are “animals” too, our race human is not more worth than other races. Maybe we are more intelligent, but saying we’re more worth because we’re more intelligent would be like saying a 30-year old is more worth than a 5-year old, because he/she is more intelligent.

All I’m saying is, how can people justify torturing animals for cosmetic reasons? We have the ability to test cosmetics in other ways, there is no reason for why annimals should still be tortured for our vanity. And we as consumers have a choice, we can choose not to use products tested on animals. Maybe L’Oreal really do have a mascara that make your lashes look fabulous, but if having perfect lashes means torturing an animal, I can live without it!

If your interested (and you should be) you can find lists over companies that do and don’t test their products on innocent animals here.