Visual Vibrations_ Beauty And The Beast

  

  

by Cheng Kwan Yui Angel


For decades, companies have been using animals to prove that their products are safe for humans. This has become a very inhumane practice in which millions of animals are subjected to intolerable cruelty.

According to recent research, animal testing for cosmetics has been banned in a number of European countries. However, the message of “cruelty-free” is still not spread in Asia. Japan is one of the countries support animal test. Companies in Japan have produced many brands of cosmetic, such as SK-II, Shiseido, and RMK…etc. These brands are famous in Hong Kong. For the public, they are attracted by the nice packaging. Also some of them even don’t know about the ingredients and the animal test. On the scientific side, many non-animal tests were developed. Instead of measuring how long it will take a chemical to burn away the cornea of a rabbit’s eye, manufacturers could now drop that chemical onto donated human corneas. These and dozens more tests in use today are cheaper, faster, and more accurate at predicting human reactions to a product than the old animal tests ever were. Beauty and the beast is project to remind everyone that animals were suffer from the animal test and they died in a cruel way. It was inhumane.

一直以來，化妝品生產商以動物進行樣本測試，以證明產品可以安全推出市場。這種不人道的方法讓數以萬計的動物接受令人難受的殘酷對待。
  
據統計，多個歐洲國家已禁止生產化妝品時進行動物測試。但“人道品牌”(cruelty-free) 卻仍未流行於亞洲地區。日本是其中一個國家支持動物實驗。SK-II、SHISEIDO、RMK等來自日本的化妝品品牌，都因其吸引的包裝而受到香港人熱愛。事實上，大部分人使用這些化妝品時都不會注意到當中的成份，以及曾進行動物測試的生產過程。在科學界，其實早已發明了非動物測試，例如用人類捐贈的角膜以代替白兔的角膜。新測試比舊有以動物作測試的方法更便宜、快捷和準確。透過這個作品，希望表達出有無數動物因進行這一類殘酷的測試而犧牲，讓人反思這一種不人道行為。