Sienna Miller Supports BUAV Campaign to End Cruel Cosmetics Tests on Animals

Sienna Miller Supports BUAV Campaign to End Cruel Cosmetics Tests on Animals

LONDON, October 4, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

Stage and screen star Sienna Miller is supporting the BUAV No Cruel
Cosmetics campaign to end animal testing for toiletries and cosmetics sold
in the EU. Sienna joins a number of high profile celebrities supporting the
BUAV campaign, including Sir Paul McCartney, Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt
and British Actress Jenny Seagrove.

Despite a UK and EU ban on the use of animals to test cosmetics and
toiletries, companies are still allowed to sell products in the EU that have
been tested on animals in other parts of the world. A ban on the import and
sale of new animal tested cosmetic products in the EU is due to come into
effect in 2013. However, concerns have arisen that this animal testing ban
may be delayed. In response, the BUAV launched the European-wide No Cruel
Cosmetics campaign calling for the ban to come into effect as planned in
2013.

If the ban is delayed, animals will continue to suffer and die
needlessly in cruel tests for new beauty products sold in the EU. That means
that hundreds of thousands more rabbits, guinea pigs, mice and rats could be
injected, gassed or force-fed cosmetics worldwide for new beauty products
sold in the EU, including the UK.

Over one hundred thousand people across the UK and EU, including Sienna,
have already signed the No Cruel Cosmetics petition which is being sent to
the European Parliament. The BUAV petition can be signed at
http://www.NoCruelCosmetics.org.

Michelle Thew, Chief Executive of BUAV, said: "We are delighted to have
the support of Sienna Miller. It is totally unacceptable for animals to
continue to suffer and die in the name of beauty. Please join Sienna and
support our No Cruel Cosmetics campaign to end cosmetics testing on animals.
Sign our petition to the European Parliament at
http://www.NoCruelCosmetics.org."

Celebrities, politicians, cosmetic companies and European citizens are
being urged to sign the Euro-wide petition calling for the animal testing
ban to go ahead in 2013.

Contact: Fleur Dawes fleur.dawes@buav.org +44(0)7850-510955 /
+44(0)207-6196978

http://www.buav.org

Source: BUAV

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