Ecover will be tested on animals from now on.

This is interesting. As my 14 year daughter is a lacto vegetarian, animal testing is relevant to us. I gather from this article that they are going to use water fleas, & the blood from rabbit farming for their testing. I don't think I have a problem with the water fleas, but I may well have a problem with using rabbit blood. I don't know exactly what goes on in rabbit farming.

I have always used Ecover products because they are detergents that do less harm; I had never thought about them not being tested on animals. I suppose if I had been asked i would have automatically assumed that they wouldn't be tested on animals. Thanks for alerting me; I will certainly give it some thought.

I read the link and it does say alternate testing is unavailable, but I have such a hard time with that. I hate testing on animals and oppose the idea of course but for a cleaning product- for god's sake we don't need any cleaning product so badly that animals should endure lab testing. I have a hard time when medical research is done on animals. We've managed for centuries with the basics- baking soda and vinegar will take care of almost anything. Borax is great but has been found to be harmful to pregnant women, although its not clear to me in what way its harmful (do they have to have eaten it, or breathed it in? Its got so many uses but not in food or loose in the air????)Home made soaps never caused the problems mfg detergetns have, to the planet- and they work exceedingly well.

It says human red blood cells are too hard to come by, so rabbit blood is used instead.... where do I go to donate some of mine?...