Pamela Wants India to Ban Animal-Tested Cosmetics Sales
Former Baywatch star and Bigg Boss alum Pamela Anderson was delighted to learn that after banning the testing of cosmetics and their ingredients on animals, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is now considering an amendment to The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, that would include a ban on the import and sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals anywhere in the world. That’s why Anderson has written to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to urge him to have a heart for animals and go forward with extending the animal testing ban.
In her letter, Anderson writes, “Please resist special interests and ‘dinosaur’ companies who still test in crude and cruel ways and do the right, kind thing. Please pass the proposed ban on the import and sale of cosmetics if they or their ingredients have been tested on animals without delay“.
If introduced into The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, the new rule could state, “135-B. Import of cosmetics tested on animals prohibited. – No cosmetic tested on animals shall be imported”.
“The European Union and Israel have already banned the marketing and sale of cosmetics if they or their ingredients were tested on animals, and more than 1,400 companies around the world have also banned all animal tests in favour of modern, non-animal and human-relevant test methods”, writes Anderson.
After learning about the issue from PETA India, many other stars – including Raveena Tandon-Thadani, Jacqueline Fernandez, Dia Mirza, R Madhavan, Rahul Khanna,Sunny Leone, Pooja Bhatt, Lara Dutta Bhupathi, Trisha Krishnan, Dino Morea and Esha Deol-Takhtani –petitioned the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in support of a sales ban on cosmetics and household products tested on animals.
This is not the first time that Anderson has spoken up for animals. Among dozens of international actions over the years, she recently supported PETA’s successful campaign to free the chained temple elephant Sunder who now lives in a spacious elephant park. The long-time vegan also wrote to then–Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2010 and asked him to help the cows who are abused and slaughtered in the gruesome leather trade.
After filming in Bigg Boss, Anderson adopted a desi dog she named Pyari.
You can help Pamela. Urge the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to ban the sale of animal-tested cosmetics today.
