Ask BUAV/Leaping Bunny to reword their misleading ''Cruelty Free'' campaigns



The British Union Against Vivisection (BUAV) runs several very prominent campaigns, several of which are aimed at the use of animals in laboratories used for experimentation for cosmetics and household products.
http://www.buav.org/

These campaigns run under the titles:

Cruelty Free International

http://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/

Go Cruelty Free

http://www.gocrueltyfree.org/

No Cruel Cosmetics

http://www.nocruelcosmetics.org/

Leaping Bunny (Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics)

http://www.leapingbunny.org/

They also have 'The Little book of 'Cruelty Free' for UK residents which acts as a guide for 'cruelty free' shopping.

I am asking that people sign this petition to draw attention to the damage using such wording is doing. Cruelty Free is a misnomer, we are always going to unfortunately cause harm to someone, somewhere, by our sheer existance. But for the purpose of this petition I am using it to highlight that unless a company is vegan then they are not cruelty free. Experimentation is cruel, but so is using animals as ingredients.
I recognise that BUAV does state on their website that they are not a vegan organisation but people see the tag 'Cruelty Free' and assume that this means it is safe to use.

I have spoken to many, many, new vegans and more experienced vegans who have thought that this to be the case. They are shopping when seeing the bunny and purchasing it without looking any further, simply because 'cruelty free' should mean just that: vegan. When I was doing research for this petition to see how big an issue this was, more people had their attention drawn to it, who too had also been confused and were buying non vegan products.

In signing this petition I ask BUAV, that you please reword your campaigns therefore indicaticating CLEARLY that you are not endorsing vegan products. You are focusing on the testing side alone. It is confusing and causing much harm to our animal friends. Saving lives is important and living vegan is inclusively aiming to do that. Please do not hinder us in doing so. Please remove 'Cruelty Free' from all your campaigns.

Thank you.

In signing this petition I ask BUAV, that you please reword your campaigns therefore indicaticating CLEARLY that you are not endorsing vegan products. You are focusing on the testing side alone. It is confusing and causing much harm to our animal friends. Saving lives is important and living vegan is inclusively aiming to do that. Please do not hinder us in doing so. Please remove 'Cruelty Free' from all your campaigns.

Thank you.

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