Cruelty-Free Cosmetics
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
There is a bill that can save the lives of millions of animals. The Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act of California would ban the sale of all cosmetic products that have been tested on animals statewide. If passed, it would could spell the end of all animal testing in the cosmetics industry!
Actress Kristin Bauer van Straten from the hit HBO series True Blood joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to talk about the difficulties of having exclusively non-animal tested makeup on set and her time lobbying at the state capital. She emotionally recalls becoming aware of the conditions animals are kept in during lab testing.
Chuck is also joined by Elizabeth Baker, who is the regulatory policy director for the Physicians Committee. She details the massive effect the legislation would have and the overwhelming support it has received so far. But she also points out that it is a long way from becoming law and that more help is needed to get it passed.
Dr. Neal Barnard shares how YOU can help no matter where you live in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Neil Barnard. Welcome to the exam room. In the state of California, there |
| 0:12.7 | is a new bill called the Cruel T-Free Cosmetics Act. And as you'll hear in today's program, |
| 0:19.1 | this is so important because it bans the sale of cosmetic products that have been animal |
| 0:24.4 | tested. Now, it's only in California, but if this bill passes, any cosmetic manufactured |
| 0:31.3 | anywhere, if it's been animal tested, it cannot be sold in the state of California, and there |
| 0:36.5 | is no manufacturer on the planet that wants to lose that market. So this means the end |
| 0:41.4 | of animal testing on cosmetics. However, it has not yet been passed. That's what we're |
| 0:47.2 | going to talk about in today's program. So today, you're going to hear from our policy |
| 0:51.7 | program director, Elizabeth Baker, who's been instrumental in pushing the bill through |
| 0:55.4 | the legislature. Weight loss champion Chuck Carroll is here. He's going to be speaking |
| 0:59.2 | with actress Kristen Bauer-Vantstratton from HBO's Trueblood. She's been a tremendous |
| 1:05.0 | supporter of the bill. You're going to hear what she has to say today. And you'll also |
| 1:08.2 | hear the most important thing, which is how you can help. Here's Chuck. |
| 1:15.9 | This is the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee, the Weight |
| 1:18.8 | Loss Champion Chuck Carroll here with you. Special episode of the exam room this week. |
| 1:24.6 | Typically, we focus on health, we focus on nutrition. This week, we're touching on something |
| 1:29.9 | that we also do at the Physicians Committee, and that is animal welfare. Specifically, we |
| 1:36.0 | are currently lobbying for a bill to get pushed in California called the California Cosmetics |
| 1:42.2 | Bill. There's a few more intricacies in there. And so to help me sort all of this out |
| 1:46.9 | and to tell us how you can get involved in that as well, we welcome to the show Regulatory |
| 1:52.5 | Policy Director here at the Physicians Committee, Elizabeth Baker. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:56.6 | Thank you. Chuck, I really appreciate it. Glad to be here. |
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