Then he attacks the real successes achieved by the movement, including PETA's [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] successful campaigns for alternatives to animals in product testing. "Its [PETA's] aggressive PR stunts have caused Avon, Revlon, and Estee Lauder to forswear the use of animals." By promising only in vitro testing, Kligman fumes, these companies have "improved their public image, while harming the cause of biomedical research."
Kligman's affiliation with the research facilities of L'Oreal at Aulnay-sus-Bois--a company still adamantly opposed to alternatives to animal testing--makes one wonder whether it is "the cause of biomedical research" or the protection of his own business interests that lies behind his condemnation of these successful consumer campaigns to stop animal testing of cosmetics and other nonessential products.
It is curious that Kligman seems to equate biomedical research with product testing. While it may be strategically advantageous to muddle the distinctions between the ...
