Well-known household cleaning products are manufactured by the likes of Proctor and Gamble, Unilever, S.C Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive and Reckitt and Coleman.

These companies pay for very cruel and dangerously misleading animal tests for new ingredients. They put new brand names (and profits) before animals and people (animal tests give scientifically invalid safety data for consumers).

By boycotting these products you are asking these companies to stop animal tests while promoting cruelty-free organisations and products. Perhaps the most notorious consumer boycott is the one led by Uncaged Campaigns against Proctor and Gamble.

IAMS (P and G's subsidiary) conducts laboratory experiments on cats and dogs. These animals have suffered and died due to surgically-induced kidney damage. Severe allergies have been inflicted on husky puppies and cats have been killed in invasive abdominal experiments.

Let's send out a clear message to Proctor and Gamble. Proctor and Gamble brands to boycott:

• ACE
• ALWAYS (& ALLDAYS)
• ARIEL
• ATTENDS
• BOLD
• BOUNCE
• BOUNTY (kitchen roll)
• CAMAY
• CIRC
• CLAIROL
• COVERGIRL
• CREST
• DAZ
• DENCLEN
• DREFT
• EUKANUBA
• FAIRY
• FEBREZE
• FLASH
• GIORGIO BEVERLEY HILLS
• HUGO BOSS
• HEAD & SHOULDERS
• IAMS
• LENOR (& DOWNY)
• MAX FACTOR
• MILTON
• NAPISAN
• OLAY
• PAMPERS
• PANTENE
• PRINGLES
• SECRET
• SINEX
• SUNNY DELIGHT
• SWIFFER
• TAMPAX
• TIDE
• VAPORUB
• VIAKAL
• VS (hair care)
• VORTEX
• WASH N GO
• ZEST

Good cruelty-free brands to promote are:

• CO-OP (own brand)
• TESCO (own brand)
• ASDA (own brand)
• Lush
• Clarins
• The "Bio-D" range
• Body Shop (and their cosmetics)
• Superdrug (own brands)
• and most products in independent health food shops.

There are charities which perform cruel and pointless animal experiments. The two wealthiest and well-known ones are perhaps CANCER RESEARCH UK and BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION (BHF).

In one BHF test, dogs' chests were cut open and their blood was circulatedout of their bodies and back again, in order to allow blood pressure to change in the neck arteries quickly. The experimenters then came to the conclusion that a person bending down and suddenly standing up could experience dizziness and fainting!

In another experiment, dogs' blood vessels and nerves were cut away, the dogs were implanted with electrodes and they were injected with other dogs' blood. This was done to find out about blood storage in the liver, even though the experimenters acknowledged that dogs store their blood differently than humans do.

In a gruesome experiment on cats, the animals' chests were cut open, their back legs were skinned, tubes were inserted into their necks and legs and they were shocked and injected with sodium cyanide to test muscle reflexes and blood vessel activity.

Some health charities ask for donations to help people with diseases and disabilities yet spend the money to bankroll horrific experiments on dogs, rabbits, rats, mice, primates, hamsters, pigs, ferrets, frogs, fish, guinea pigs, sheep, birds and other animals. While human health needs cry out for attention and so many people are going without medical care, animal experimentation enriches laboratories and scientists but drains money from relevant and effective projects that could really help save lives.

You can visit http://www.britishheartlessfoundation.com/ for more information about BHF.

Around the world cancer charities have become the most successful money collecting machines ever known. They would be quick to take the credit if we were winning the war against the disease.

So they - and the rest of the very wealthy cancer industry - must take the blame for the fact that we are failing. The cancer industry is failing because:
1)It seems it is no longer in the charities' interest s to find a cure for cancer. Much of the money they raise pays for overheads and fat salaries. If cancer became an avoidable disease many people would surely be out of work for the charities would become unemployed.
2)The money is wasted on absurd research programmes (including pointless animal experiments)
3)Big charities refuse to spend enough cash on teaching people how to avoid cancer, on campaigning against environmental carcinogens or on stopping the food industry selling so many known cancer-creating foods.
4)The cancer industry sometimes sneers at remedies which may work. A cancer charity attacked Dr Vernon Coleman's website www.immunesystem.co.uk though the advice it contained could save millions of lives. (Dr Vernon Coleman's main website is http://www.vernoncoleman.co.uk/)
5)The cancer industry is funded by drugs companies. These are companies on the stock market which seek profit maximisation. It would NEVER be in the commercial interests of the drug companies to have less cancer sufferers.

Why do drug companies support cancer charities?

"Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them"- Dr Linus Pauling (twice Nobel Prize Winner) (Page 1996)

" The "cancer industry", in particular patient groups, the charities and the pharmaceutical companies, are remarkably successful in their advocacy of increased funding of treatments which give patients little enhancement in the length and quality of life at high cost..

One of the best cancer policies remains prevention, in particular reduced use of tobacco.

However, investing in this policy does not benefit government, the pharmaceutical industry, the cancer charities or unfortunate patients already damaged by their addiction to cigarettes - or "cancer sticks" ".
-Prof Alan Maynard, York health policy group, University of York (Tuesday August 6, 2002 - Letter to The Guardian newspaper)

Charities to boycott:

• ACTION RESEARCH
• ALZEIMER'S SOCIETY
• ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST
• ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CAMPAIGN
• ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH
• ASSOCIATION FOR SPINA BIFIDA AND HYDROCEPHALUS
• BRAIN DAMAGE RESEARCH TRUST
• BRAIN RESEARCH TRUST
• BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER
• BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION
• BRITISH LIVER TRUST
• BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION
• CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA IN CHILDREN (CLIC)
• CANCER RESEARCH UK
• CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST
• CHILDREN NATIONWIDE
• CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRUST
• DEFEATING DEAFNESS (THE HEARING RESEARCH TRUST)
• DIABETES UK
• DIGESTIVE DISORDERS FOUNDATION
• DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (DEBRA)
• EPILEPSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INFANT DEATHS
• FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA GROUP
• HOPE
• LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH FUND
• LIVER RESEARCH TRUST
• MARIE CURIE CANCER CARE
• MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• MIGRAINE TRUST
• MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE ASSOCIATION
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
• MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CAMPAIGN
• THE MYELIN PROJECT
• NATIONAL ASTHMA CAMPAIGN
• NATIONAL ENDOMETRIOSIS SOCIETY
• NATIONAL KIDNEY RESEARCH FUND AND KIDNEY FOUNDATION
• NATIONAL MIGRAINE TRUST
• PARKINSON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF THE UK
• REMEDY FOR RELIEF OF DISABILITY
• RESEARCH INTO AGEING
• SANE
• SCOPE
• TENOVUS
• THE WELLCOME TRUST
• WISHBONE TRUST
• WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND

We do not know if the following charites carry out animal experiments. These are UNDETERMINED.We suggest you contact them to ask for written confirmation of their policy on animal experiments.

• THE BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION
• THE BREAST CANCER CAMPAIGN
• THE BRITISH COUNCIL FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS
• THE BRITISH ORGAN DONOR SOCIETY
• BRITTLE BONE SOCIETY
• CHEST HEART AND STROKE ASSOCIATION SCOTLAND
• CHILD GROWTH FOUNDATION
• CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH APPEAL TRUST
• CHILDREN'S HEART SURGERY FUND
• CHILDREN'S LIVER DISEASE FOUNDATION
• CLIMB-CHILDREN LIVING WITH INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASES
• THE COELIAC SOCIETY
• CORONARY ARTERY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - CORDA
• CRUSAID
• EPILEPSY ASSOCIATIO OF SCOTLAND
• FIGHT FOR SIGHT
• HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION
• LLEOSTOMY ASSOCIATION
• IRIS FUND FOR PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS
• LEPRA . BRITISH LEPROSY RELIEF ASSOCIATION
• THE LITTLE FOUNDATION
• ME ASSOCIATION
• MYASTHENIA GRAVIS ASSOCIATION
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COLITIS AND CROHN'S. NACC
• NATIONAL BACK PAIN ASSOCIATION (BACKCARE)
• NATIONAL EYE RESEARCH CENTRE
• NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION
• NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EPILEPSY
• PSORIASIS ASSOCIATION
• PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH TRUST
• RAYNAUD'S AND SCLERODERMA ASSOCIATION
• SOCIETY FOR MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDE DISEASE
• SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF UNBORN CHILDREN
• ST MARK'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION
• TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION
• VITILIGO SOCIETY