Animal Testing listening exercise
In this English listening exercise we hear a campaign against animal testing.
Cosmetic companies were using animals to test their products and ingredients. When the public knew about this, they were horrified. This is where The Cosmetics Directive sprung.
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Listen to this campaign against the use of animals testing in cosmetics, and answer the questions in the following listening exercise. Write your answers in the comments box at the bottom of the page, and we will reply with the answers shortly!
Questions:
1. For many _____, hidden from the ___ of the ___, cosmetics companies were using animals to test their products and ____.
2. People ____ petitions, they wrote to their ____, they gave money to animal _____ groups...
3. They _____ to find _____ cosmetics that they could safely buy, sending a clear message where they wanted their money _____.
4. In _____, European _____ to end cosmetics animal testing was _____.
5. In the ___ no finished cosmetics product could be ____ on animals.
6. So the legislation also _____ no cosmetics ingredients could be tested on animals.
7. So it also said no marketing or ________ of animal tested cosmestics _____ in Europe.
8. Everyone was _____ that they had won _____ protection.
9. Some of the _____ cosmetics companies _____ lobbied the European Commission.
10. _____ later that third bit of the legislation is still not in _____. Animal-tested cosmetics are still being sold _____ Europe.
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