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...understand why they just don't modernize their facilities and get up with the times. They're using these crude techniques that go back 50 to 60 years," said Evelyn Kimber, a protester who lives in Boston...
...Kimber said Gilette currently uses both the draize eye-irritancy test and the lethal-dose toxicity test in their laboratories, both of which were developed in the first half of the century. The draize test, involves immobilizing rabbits and dropping caustic substances into their eyes. In the lethal-dose toxicity test, poisonous substances are sprayed into the animals' faces...
...Kimber said she was excited that many of thelocal residents stopped or signalled to expresstheir support for PETA's efforts...
...vigil was just one prong in a many-prongedapproach to get Mr. Mockler to pay attention tothis very serious issue," said Kimber. "We havebeen approaching him for four to five years now.He has been asked many times to have meetings withus, but he has never responded...
...last three years, PETA members havebrought before Gillette's stockholders areferendum demanding that the company disclose thefacts surrounding its animal testing procedures.But Mockler successfully campaigned for thestockholders to vote "no" on the resolution allthree years, Kimber said...