Question for Greenghost?!

Question for Greenghost?

Would calling the company and asking them if their product is vegan or not work?

12 hours ago
Other people can answer this. But I was just wondering of it would be possible. If the companies lied couldn't we just sue them?
I really want to find out if Garnier Fructis products are vegan- friendly (so far the only thing I've asked if if they test on animals and if they contain animal products).

You could just turn on YA's anonymous email to get answers directly from me you know<VBG>. I don't always scan YA for mention of my name!

I've already dropped a comment on the other question, I'll try to fill in some details here.

Just asking a company about their product being vegan does NOT work! The problem is that there is NO legal definition of the word vegan. Companies can (and have) falsely state their product is vegan friendly and beat lawsuits on that basis. Think back to Clinton arguing about the definition of words like "sex" and "is" as a 'public' example of that kind of thing.

Using the phone isn't a good idea since you want an answer that's legally binding. Phone call 'advice' generally doesn't hold up as something a company will be held liable for<sigh>.

Companies exist to maximize profit, they'll do whatever it takes to do that and they're more than willing to weasel around questions if they think the cost of fighting a lawsuit is cheaper than the profits they make off additional sales. Look at how fast food companies do that by advertising "We only fry in vegetable oil" and 'innocently' forget to mention that they add animal fat to their product *before* they fry. Think about sugar companies that state "We don't use bone char" but 'forget' to mention that they use other forms of animal carbon. Juice companies can say their product is 100% fruit juice but keep quiet about using animal enzymes to process the fruit into juice.

If you want straight answers from a company you have to ask them a legally binding question that will hold up in court! That's the only way to make sure they're telling the truth. The short version of my question isn't perfect but it works 99% of the time to get companies to 'fess up' about the animal content of their products (at least the ones that answer it). Keep in mind that a truly definative, loophole-free set of questions to ask companies about their use of animals is the size of a book! Even then they can just refuse to answer the questions (see my previous answers about soda and gum<g>).

The Garnier Fructis website wants more bandwidth than I've got so I did a quickie google search on their name along with a few animal ingredient names. I don't know about all their products (or if they animal test) but they DO use lanolin (sheep fat) in at least some of their products. I didn't bother digging any further into their ingredients after that hit.

A company called "Nature's Gate" does make veg friendly shampoo and conditioner if that helps<g>.

Justin, I only take best answer on about 25% of the questions that mention me<G>. I'll give you a TU for having guts though<LOL>! BTW; it's not difficult to submit something to a lab for analysis<evil grin>, but it *does* put a dent in your bank account<VBG>.