Timeline of Cruelty Free International
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This is a timeline of Cruelty Free International, an animal protection and advocacy group that campaigns for the abolition of all animal experiments.
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Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| 19th century | Experiments on animals becomes a major social justice issue in Europe and the United States.[1] |
| 20th century | By the turn of the century, CFI achieves widespread recognition as a professional pressure group with an established voice in the political arena, in both Britain and Europe.[1] |
Full timeline
| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1863 | Irish philanthropist Frances Power Cobbe comes into contact with the suffering of animals in experiments when travelling around Europe. Cobbe begins to write articles and speak at public meetings advocating for an end to the suffering of animals in cruel experiments.[1] | ||
| 1898 | June 14 | CFI is founded as the ‘British Union’ in Bristol by Irish philanthropist Frances Power Cobbe.[1] | |
| 1904 | Notable death | Frances Power Cobbe dies of heart failure at the age of 81.[1] | |
| 1940 | The British Union has at least 154 branches, including six in Australia and one in New Zealand.[1] | ||
| 1947 | All organizations campaigning to end animal experiments suffer a severe blow when the British courts rule that they could no longer have charitable status.[1] | ||
| 1949 | The British Union is renamed the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, to avoid confusion with similarly-named organizations.[1] | ||
| 1970 | The Dr Hadwen Trust is founded by the union. It would become the leading non-animal medical research charity in the United Kingdom.[1] | ||
| 1991 | The union launches the first ever in-depth investigation of the trade in monkeys for research, revealing the cruelties inherent in the trade in wild animals. This would result in country trade restrictions and government bans on the use of monkeys taken from the wild.[2] | ||
| 1996 | The union launches the Leaping Bunny program, an internationally recognized no animal testing certification for cosmetics, personal care and household products. Symbolized by the Leaping Bunny logo, the program aims to turn shopping malls cruelty free with the certification of leading household names gaining Leaping Bunny certification.[2] | ||
| 2001 | The union achieves a ban on the use of controversial LD50 oral toxicity tests in the United Kingdom, in which animals can be force fed chemicals until 50% of them die.[2] | ||
| 2014 | The union wins the prestigious Sustainability Pioneer category of the Sustainable Beauty Awards, for its work to ban cruel cosmetics in Europe. The award requires evidence of a positive social, economic and environmental impact and a significant contribution to sustainable development in the beauty industry.[2] | ||
| 2015 | The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection changes its name to Cruelty Free International to continue the work of our founders to end animal experiments worldwide.[1] |
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