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05-25-2013, 03:45 PM
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Secret 3M New Product
Really? I always thought that 3M was a "socially responsible" company, and always liked them going back to the days of McKnight, owner of Tartan Stable.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dividend...ividend-stock/ 
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05-25-2013, 10:44 PM
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How about this... instead of me posting links to try to prove anything please google it someday (although I will include the latest naughty list from peta... companies that test on animals). http://www.mediapeta.com/peta/PDF/companiesdotest.pdf The strongest argument I could possibly make (not that we're arguing!) is the one thing I will not do...post videos of the actual labs. Just for fun though since you brought up the words socially responsible? Look up stuff about the warnings not to eat fish from the Mississippi River (contaminated with the endocrine disruptor (pretty much unregulated and there are many different kinds) PFO, a key ingredient in Scotchguard (It was reformulated in 2003. It now contains PFBS which supposedly has a much shorter half-life in people than PFOS . You do realize who all this crap is tested on right? Woof woof). Something like 80 percent of bass were "feminized" while minnows suddenly had intersex characteristics. Eggs in their testes? There is something frightening about that isn't there? I think there were close to 30,000 lawsuits around the year 2000... asbestos-related issues (and hey the disposable respirator that 3M manufactured and employees wore was defective). Asbestos related issues sounds much nicer than lung cancer, mesothelioma etc. There were lawsuits regarding landfills... we could be here all day, my friend. Oh and yes... I know about the 3P program (Pollution Prevention Pays). Nice that they just got a big tax break for a shiny, new research facility. Maybe it can hold even more dogs, cats, pigs, guniea pigs, etc.
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05-26-2013, 08:12 AM
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It was a picture that looked like funny butts....
 I wasn't at 3M anyway, it was really Exxon..there, is that better.
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05-26-2013, 10:32 AM
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The other side of the animal testing thing on cosmetics and household cleaners (I'm not including things like drugs and automotive stuff, which are required to go through animal testing), is that, when introducing a new product, a company needs to make sure it's done its due diligence in making sure the product is safe, because, in the event it turns out not to be, lawyers suing on behalf of plaintiffs will use any hole in testing as proof the company was negligent, and that will certainly include a lack of animal testing. The onus is then on the company to prove that animal testing would have made no difference. And that can be impossible to prove, and a lot more expensive than just testing on animals to begin with. It's a testament, sadly, to our lack of concern for animal welfare (and anyone who eats factory farmed meat, which is most of it, is directly supporting animal cruelty on a scale far larger and far more barbaric than even laboratory animals, which do fall under at least a legally required minimal standard of care, no matter how poor), and to our litigious society. Businesses have no interest in anything other than making the most amount of money with the least amount of expenditure. If they feel they can bring products to market without testing on animals, they will, because it's cheaper for them. But they're testing because they're afraid of getting sued for an unsafe product later. But, of course, we can always offer opinion with our pocketbooks. Here are eight products you can stop buying (if you currently do) that have been tested on animals: Windex Post-Its (3M) Kleenex Mars Candy (M&Ms, Snickers, Twix, Skittles, and many more) Trojans Band-Aids Iams Pet Food Vaseline http://www.businessinsurance.org/8-p...ed-on-animals/ And people can write their Congresscritters and say they support freeing companies that don't test on animals from litigation if their products end up being dangerous to the public. And I'm not sure if those things in the picture were teeth or nekkid wimmin. I saw teeth first. What does that say?
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05-26-2013, 10:51 AM
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 Thanks for posting the list and while I know peta isnt't popular here for many reasons the one I posted above does list many many companies too. I realize we all can't stop buying every product these companies make but, as I know you know, beoming aware and hopfully not giving some of them business, etc., well it's a start. This was posted in the what not to eat thread but proof that things can be accomplished...  http://ens-newswire.com/2013/03/11/e...ed-on-animals/
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