Truls, 1998-2010

Today my beloved friend for the past 12 years closed his eyes for the very last time and took his last breath. He has been living with a heart condition for the past two years, so we knew he didn’t have long to live and today the decision was made, he was to be put to rest before the pain was too great.

I love you with all my heart. You will be greatly missed.

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.