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“A young woman was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high street shop window as part of a hard-hitting protest against animal testing.

Jacqueline Traide was tortured in front of hundreds of horrified shoppers in a bid to raise awareness and end the practise.

The 24-year-old endured 10 hours of experiments, which included having her hair shaved and irritants squirted in her eyes, as part of a worldwide campaign by Lush Cosmetics and The Humane Society.

The disturbing stunt took place in Lush’s Regent Street store, one of the UK’s busiest shopping streets.

Jacqueline appeared genuinely terrified as she was pinned down on a bench and had her mouth stretched open with two metal hooks while a man in a white coat force-fed her until she choked and gagged.

The artist was also injected with numerous needles, had her skin braised and lotions and creams smeared across her face.

Passers-by were gobsmacked to see Jacqueline, a social sculpture student at Oxford Brookes University, forced to have a section of her head shaved.

The gruesome spectacle aimed to highlight the cruelty inflicted on animals during cosmetic laboratory tests and raise awareness that animal testing is still a common practise.

The Humane Society International and Lush Cosmetics have joined forces to launch the largest-ever global campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics.

The campaign, launched to coincide with World Week for Animals in Laboratories, is being rolled out simultaneously in over 700 Lush Ltd shops across forty-seven countries including the United States, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Russia.

Lush campaign manager Tamsin Omond said: “The ironic thing is that if it was a beagle in the window and we were doing all these things to it, we’d have the police and RSPCA here in minutes.

“But somewhere in the world, this kind of thing is happening to an animal every few seconds on average.

“The difference is, it’s normally hidden. We need to remind people it is still going on.”

For more information about the campaign, visit www.fightinganimaltesting.com”

I HOPE EVERYONE READS THIS AND REBLOGS IT!

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I've moved blogs

I have now moved over to this blog.

I've moved because I'm never active on here.  And the reason for that is just that there are so many different reblogs I've put on here, I feel like I'm not specific enough.  Sooo, on the new one, I'll just be focusing on what I love and I'm not going to reblog a whole bunch of different things.

I also want to actually start contributing to the tumblr community, not just endlessly reblogging, so hopefully, you'll see some original stuff popping up here and there on the new blog.

And the last reason is that, since all I do is reblog whatever and post nothing original, I haven't gotten to meet people.  Because I'm not exciting or different enough to talk to.  So yeah.

Thanks for following me even though I haven't been active on here for, like, a long time.

Maybe I'll see you over on the new blog!

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Star Trek quilts! Just in time for the cold winter weather, I have added six Star Trek themed quilts to my shop. 

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Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Shakespeare's Hamlet

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The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

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OH MY GOD

Holy crap did you know porcupines sounded this cute? I didn’t! 

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(Silvia Li Photography)

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I’M SQUEALINGI CAN’T STOP WATCHING THIS

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never ever apologize to me for your dog being too excited to see me

a dog could knock me to the ground and give me a black eye and I would still hug it and love it because dogs hurt because they love too much I love dogs

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