{"id":7017,"date":"2023-07-01T20:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/why-did-it-take-so-long-for-canada-to-ban-animal-testing\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:51:11","slug":"why-did-it-take-so-long-for-canada-to-ban-animal-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/why-did-it-take-so-long-for-canada-to-ban-animal-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did it take so long for Canada to ban animal testing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-jIQds6mpU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The federal government is banning the testing of cosmetic products on animals, joining more than 40 other countries that have taken the same step. The EU introduced its own ban in 2004 and invested millions of euros in research to develop alternatives to animal testing. So why did Canada take so long to make this move? <\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is banning the testing of cosmetic products on animals, joining more than 40 other countries that have taken the same step. The EU introduced its own ban in 2004 and invested millions of euros in research to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5244,5245,5705,78,384,86,87,5706,4753,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}