Vegan Bodysprays and Perfumes!?!
I’ve recently turned vegan and i’m gradually ridding myself of my animal cruelty cosmetics aswell as the food but i’m not sure about perfumes and body sprays. I used to use revlon but i don’t know if they are vegan friendly, i know they don’t test on animals but i don’t know if they use animal by-products. Can anyone help me?! (in the UK so need UK sold products)
Why, that is extremely bad for you.
WASHINGTON, Aug 06, 2008 PRNewswire-USNewswire
/ via COMTEX/ — ‘Physicians Committee’ Campaign Exploits Children and
Is Fear-Mongering at Its Worst
Attribute Statement to AMI Foundation President Randy Huffman, Ph.D.
The following is a statement by AMI Foundation President Randy Huffman,
Ph.D.:
“A factually inaccurate, alarmist and exploitive new campaign aimed at
scaring parents and school systems out of feeding children processed
meats is just what those of us who know the Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine (PCRM) have come to expect from this
pro-vegetarian animal rights group in doctors’ clothing.
After all, it is this group’s actions that prompted the American
Medical Association in 1991 to issue a news release stating that, ‘The
AMA finds the recommendations of PCRM irresponsible and potentially
dangerous to the health and welfare of Americans. [PRCM is] blatantly
misleading Americans on a health matter and concealing its true
purpose as an animal ‘rights’ organization.’ The California Medical
Association also has criticized PCRM for ‘lies and misrepresentation.’
And most recently, in a story carried by STATS.org, Ron Kleinman,
M.D., a leading medical expert on childhood nutrition, called the
campaign ‘outrageous’ and chastised the group for exploiting children
to achieve their political agenda.
What more does the media need to convince them that this effort is not
worthy of coverage? Perhaps these facts will help:
– Fact: PCRM’s goal is to create a Vegan Society. PCRM bases its
claims against processed meats on this longstanding and myopic view
that Vegan Diets (extreme diets that include no animal products
whatsoever) are better than balanced diets. PCRM also cites a
controversial and inconclusive report by the World Cancer Research
Fund as representing “consensus” when it has been widely challenged by
scientists.
– Fact: PCRM’s Executive Director Neal Barnard until 2005 sat on the
board of the Foundation to Support Animal Protection which has since
become known as The PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Foundation. Need we say more?
– Fact: There are safe levels of just about everything; balance and
moderation are key. Even botulism toxin, a very dangerous substance at
certain levels, is approved to treat muscle spasms in people and to
reduce skin wrinkling. Mustards seeds produce the deadly “Mustard Gas”
but mustard seeds also are the source for the condiment mustard.
Saying that there are “no safe levels” of a nutritious food product is
simply outrageous and scientifically insupportable. Processed meats do
play an important role in a balanced diet that includes fruits,
vegetables, grains and dairy products.
– Fact: Children derive important nutrition from processed meats -
and they will eat them. Children are notoriously picky eaters, but
they enjoy many processed meats and derive essential vitamins,
minerals, protein and amino acids to the diet. Uneaten bowls of lentil
artichoke stew or potato cauliflower curry (two of PCRM’s suggested
recipes) contribute nothing to a child’s diet.
– Fact: Processed meats come in a variety of different formulations
to meet many nutrition needs. Some choices include low fat, fat free
or regular processed meats; processed meats made from beef, pork or
poultry; and low-salt, cured and uncured processed meats. Yet PCRM
takes a broad swipe at an entire and very diverse category of
products. That’s as stereotypical as saying that all vegetarian diets
are healthy when a diet of potato chips, beer and lollipops -
technically speaking – is A Vegan Diet.
– Fact: Vegans Derive Far More Nitrite From Their Vegetable
Consumption Than Meat Eaters Derive From Cured Meats. A liter of
pomegranate juice contributes 100 times more nitrite to the diet than
a hot dog and a spinach salad and a ham sandwich contribute about the
same amount, according to one of the nation’s leading experts on
nitrite and nitrate. In fact, less than five percent of human nitrite
intake comes from cured meats. Ninety-three percent is contributed by
vegetables and by saliva. Will PCRM recommend that people stop eating
vegetables or swallowing saliva? We hope not, because leading experts
doing cutting edge research at the National Institutes of Health have
found that nitrite is not just safe, it can be an important treatment
for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an
illness that suffocates babies. ‘The idea it’s bad for you has not
played out,’ NIH Researcher Mark Gladwin, M.D., has said publicly.
Likewise, Nathan Bryan, Ph.D., of the Univ. of Texas-Houston Institute
of Molecular Medicine, another nitrite expert, told Food Quality
magazine, ‘Many studies implicating nitrite and nitrate in cancer are
based on very weak epidemiological data. If nitrite and nitrate were
harmful to us, then we would not be advised to eat green leafy
vegetables or swallow our own saliva, which is enriched in nitrate.’
– Fact: The WCRF/AICR report that PCRM cites made selective use of
science. The WCRF review has been viewed with skepticism by respected
scientists since its release in 2007. It is a review of
epidemiological studies. In response to the 2007 report, a systematic
review by independent epidemiologists has documented that 15 of 16
comparisons cited by WCRF regarding processed meat and colorectal
cancer in men were not statistically significant. Many other
disregarded studies show no relationship. In July, the prestigious
Journal of the National Cancer Institute published an article by a
team of world-renowned cancer researchers who cautioned the
epidemiological research community about the limitations of
epidemiology and suggested that “…false positive results are a
common problem in cancer and other types of epidemiological studies.”
The bottom line: The literature simply does not support the
recommendations of the WCRF report and, in turn, PCRM’s outrageous
claims.
– Fact: Cancer rates broadly and colon cancer rates specifically are
declining, despite claims by PCRM that they are increasing. Colorectal
cancer rates have been declining for most of the last two decades,
according to the American Cancer Society, and so have colon cancer
mortality rates.
Just as consumers need to eat a healthy, balanced diet, they need
balanced information. Check with credible health sources like your
doctor, dietician or the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. You can be assured
that they will tell you that a healthy diet can include processed
meats,” Huffman concluded.
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