we are outside the Lush Regent Street Shop

And we have just witnessed some pretty brutal animal tests

being enacted on a human test subjects

The young girl called Nicole who’s 23 years old

a vegan and a performance artist

She has an issue that she has massive whereabouts

and I think that there’s still worst to come

So we’re already 11:30

This series of animal tests is going to last today

so endurance performance

The objective to Lush

is to take animals out of cosmetic testing first in the EU

And then we went to see that first to the world

So many people really don’t realize that

animal testing in the world is going on for the cosmetic industry

And they are killing millions of animals here

It’s a completely privilege use

and also it’s very unreliable the date that you get anyway

The cosmetics directive is

a really positive piece of legislation for animals

It was passed in 1993 at the request of

20 years of campaigning by the public in Britain and across Europe

and it said that no animals could be tested on for cosmetics

But unfortunately, the cosmetics industry lobbied behind the scenes

after the legislation got passed

and they don’t want the delay and another delay then another delay

and so far

it’s been 20 years and they’re currently asking for another 10 years

So what we’re doing today

and we’ve been doing in our shops for the last week is get petitions signed

so that our customers can put their signatures something

that tells the EU parliament enough is enough

30 years is a ridiculous amount of time

very soon it’s going to be a decision as to

whether to come back extra 10-year delay

And we say that cosmetics don’t need to be tested on animals

Lush shops have never done it

and there’s no damn reason for anyone else to do it

and we would really be angry

A lot more shocking than I anticipated

I think we kind of knew what was gonna happen

but I actually see them and the flesh not respected

always takes you bad

but it reiterates

why we’re doing what we’re doing at the end of the day

We’re seeing buses come pass

and people are watching and looking with complete shock in their eyes

And try to find out on what is going on

and then you tell them

and there is just so much sympathy and empathy and hope

and here deside just kind of sign that petition

and they will decide to see this practice ends

This is our first ever global campaign

so and over 800 shops in 49 countries

People are running the fighting animal testing campaign

Still fighting animal testing!

The fact that this is one of our first campaigns

we’re all doing exactly the same time

to make it much more significant

and so much more powerful than anything we’ve ever done before

The man point down to me

if this weren’t an animal in our window that we were doing this too

we have the police down

we have the RSPCA down

we have all of the animal rights to jump it up

But you know the fact

this is something that goes on daily in the world

twist across the world

Without that with protest is really retiring

We just finished the performance in Regent Street

with the animal test subject being killed

and then taken out to the bins

and this is the reality for millions over the animals

This is how it ends for them

So if you really care about animal testing

please go down to your local Lush shop

sign the petition

ask them

how you can get involved in the fighting animal testing campaign

because together

we really can put stop to animal testing for the cosmetics industry