The hidden footprint under cosmetics brands: "We do it for humans"

Demaculated, blind from the right eye, with burns on the back and an unbearable beep in another of its ears.This is Ralph.A laboratory rabbit that in just four minutes has conquered millions of people with their incredible history.

"Okay, we do it for humans, right? They are far superior to us, animals, have even been in space," says Ralph while preparing to become an experiment for the benefit of humanity.

Lipstick, rímel or creams are some of the products we use for our personal well -being although it entails depriving many rabbits such as Ralph or other animals life.Ralph comes to assume that just as his family will die in these practices "that's fine, for that we were born, it makes us happy to rabbits".This is the ironic critic that follows from this short film directed by the filmmaker Spencer Susser.Prohibiting animal tests for beauty products and visible their suffering is the greatest desire of its director.

The video was released on April 6 by the Human Society International (HSI), a society that fights cruelty and abuse of animals."Ralph is a call for attention that animals are still suffering from cosmetics, and now is the time to unite to ban them worldwide.Today we have a large number of reliable and animals to guarantee product safety, so there is no excuse to make animals such as Ralph to try cosmetics or their ingredients, "explains Jeffrey Flocken, its president.

Actors such as Ricky Gervieis, Olivia Munn, Tricia Helfer, Pom Klementieff or Zac Efron gave their voice to this short film and contributed to spread it in the networks under the hashtag #saveralph (save Ralph) and a link where they could collaborate economically.

Viral in networks

In a short time Ralph went viral on social networks getting the support of many users.Thus he received more than 52 million views on the EH Instagram channel!, Where he appears subtitled to Spanish, and exceeding one million visits in the Instagram account and the YouTube channel of the Humane Society International.Society has taken the opportunity to inform and raise the world of the existence of these practices, legal in 80% of the countries and defend the existence of reliable evidence without the sacrifice of these animals.

"Terrified animals continue to suffer in laboratories around the world the evidence of cosmetic ingredients demanded by the government.Cosmetics chemical.These words remind the cruel images recently published by the Cruelty Free International organization where they showed decapitations, wounds and blows to animals such as pigs, dogs, rabbits or monkeys by the Living Research Laboratory in Spain.

Although this practice is prohibited in 40 countries, including those of the European Union, it remains legal in most of the world.Therefore, the short, after showing the serious sequelae of Ralph, ends with a clear message for the viewer "no animal should suffer and die in the name of beauty".