Animals Tortured For Human Vanity

[Canary42]

Why does hair turn grey ?

Just torture a few mice, to find a possible remedy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51208972

[woofgang]

I know, HATE it

[ummmm]

'Men and women can go grey from the mid 30s'

That's a load of rubbish. You can go grey at any time.

[ummmm]

And I also disagree with it. Going grey is not really important.

[Canary42]

/// Going grey is not really important ///

I agree - started in Twenties for me. What's left now (not much) is totally white. It doesn't matter a damn. But the vanity business makes millions.

[woofgang]

yes indeed. I had a friend who was grey at age 18, it ran in his family, and worked with a lady whose short cropped hair went white over 2 months at age 14. This was over 50 years ago. She went to a convent school and it happened over her summer holidays. When she went back to school, she was sent home "till the bleach grew out" and needed a letter from her GP before the nuns would believe her parents. She had no idea why it happened, no shock or trauma and it wasn't familial.

[woofgang]

and yes, going grey is not important. We are told it is by the same people who say that size matters, that women shouldn't have body hair and so on.

[ladybirder]

Deliberately torturing mice for human vanity is not on, not at all. It should be stopped, now.
You might argue a case if it meant curing some dreadful malady but definitely not for human vanity.

[ummmm]

I dye my hair but only when I can be bothered.

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt it's purely for vanity. It's about expanding knowledge. Who knows where new knowledge will be applied. But I understand that it seems cruel and unnecessary.

[Zacs-Master]

Canary, you’ve probably used quite a few products / drugs in your lifetime which have been tested on animals. It’s a sad fact of life that humans, as the dominant species on the planet, abuse animals for their own ends. I remember ‘smoking beagles’ from the 70s as one particularly abhorrent practise. I’m afraid you need to find another planet on which such things don’t happen, or accept it on this one.

[Apc2604]

Is it even ethical to torture animals for the benefit of humans regardless of it being for vanity or other reasons? We abuse our power. I know it happens, I know I probably benefit, but I feel guilt about it. Most medical research is done on animals before it's then tested on humans. I think some of it is unnecessary.

[ladybirder]

I think Canary is bothered by the trivial reason for the torture Zacs. I guess it's not the first though, sadly.

[Zacs-Master]

I’m sure he is, LB. but I’m sure that if he researched enough, he’d find products he’s used which have been tested on animals or at least a suspicious dead end.

[ummmm]

So much is unnecessary. How much more makeup or hair products do we need?

[Zacs-Master]

Ummm, beauty is a $530 BILLION industry worldwide, with companies investing billions in research and advertising. Need doesn't come into it.

[Apc2604]

Very few in my case ummmm! But when you count shampoo, soaps, toothpaste, facial wipes, creams etc. it adds up. But I don't count those as vanity.

[ummmm]

I know, Zacs, but most, imo, is a con.

Anti ageing creams and suchlike....not so much vanity, more insecurity.

[Zacs-Master]

Agreed, but that’s a whole different debate (vanity vs necessity etc etc)