Cruelty-Free?

I appreciate companies who do not use animals to test cosmetics. Using mascara, lipstick or blusher is optional and a rabbit certainly doesn’t choose to use it! But, the other day, I picked up some moisturizing gloves and socks (you put lotion on your hands/feet, then put on the gloves/socks). The back of the packaging indicated that they are “cruelty-free”. I must say that I feel OH so much better knowing that they didn’t lube up some rabbits paws and make them wear cotton gloves to see if they had softer toes or if they reacted poorly to the 100% cotton. I just hope they meant that the COMPANY only uses cruelty-free methods of testing ALL of their products.

I have a better idea: cosmetic companies can use CEOs, accountants and public servants who, through deliberate misdeeds, bilk millions out of their companies/government agencies creating financial ruin or negative consequences for reasonable, trusting employees/citizens. Steal from Metro by pocketing parking fees? Here’s a little mascara in your eye! Use the company jet, expense hookers and hotel rooms, buy vacation houses and set up offshore accounts because you are greedy therefore screwing (pun intended) employees out of their retirement savings? Chew on this tube of lipstick (in addition to spending the rest of your life in prison) So what if you suffer from a hives outbreak. TOUGH! Those little rabbits and monkeys certainly didn’t do it.