And Henry started a campaign.
Not to say, you can't do this immediately, because he realized that they
were not going to release products that could be harmful to human eyes.
But rather to say, put a small percentage of your revenues towards developing
an alternative, so you don't have to blind rabbits to make your cosmetics safe.
So, it took some years.
He didn't just stop at Revlon.
When Revlon agreed to do that, after getting a lot of very bad publicity.
He went to Avon and Bristol Myers and a
number of others and they all put into a fund
and they did develop alternatives, so that cosmetics by
and large can be tested without inflicting suffering on animals.
And I interviewed Henry towards the end of his life.
He knew that he was dying.
He had cancer.
And I wanted to make a little video of him, which you can find online.
It's called Henry Spira, One Man's Way.
I mean it's just called Henry One Man's Way, I think.
And but this is a quote which is in also put
in a essay, so he was looking back on his life.
This is the life satisfaction question I suppose, but he was asking it with a
long perspective as he knew that he was coming to the end of his life.
And he said he wanted to feel that his
life amounted to more than just consuming products and
generating garbage, which is, a picture of what a
lot of people's lives in a consumer society are like.