Mars kills animals

[The Catdancer]

From Peta:

Dear Debbie,

PETA has uncovered gruesome evidence that candy giant Mars has been paying experimenters to conduct deadly tests on mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits. We're launching a worldwide boycott of Snickers, M&M's, Twix, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Starburst, Dove, Skittles, and other Mars-made products until the company has a heart and stops hurting animals.

Right now, Mars is funding a study at the University of California, San Francisco, in which experimenters force-feed rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats. The animals are then killed and cut open.


Mars has also paid experimenters to do the following:

* Force mice to swim in a pool of water and paint and find a hidden platform to avoid drowning—only to be killed later
* Surgically attach plastic tubes to guinea pigs' carotid arteries and inject cocoa ingredients into their jugular veins to induce dramatic decreases in blood pressure
* Force rabbits to eat high-cholesterol diets with varying amounts of cocoa and then cut out and examine primary blood vessels to their hearts

Not one of these tests is required by law for candy. Mars' chief competitor, Hershey's, has already signed PETA's statement of assurance pledging never to conduct or fund tests on animals.

We need your help to end Mars' cruel experiments! Visit our new www.MarsCandyKills.com campaign Web site to find out what you can do to help.

Sincerely,

Jason Ullman
Anti-Vivisection Campaigner
PETA


Please sign the petition!!!!!

[kathy1]

i don't understand how people could treat animals that way.

[The Catdancer]

Originally Posted by kathy1

i don't understand how people could treat animals that way.

Me neither but it happens....

[paleshadow]

Originally Posted by kathy1

i don't understand how people could treat animals that way.

With the disdain people have for human life it's really not that shocking. I mean, we live in a world where a parent just recently beat their toddler to death, stuffed them in a cooler and threw it into the ocean. That's what I find hard to understand.

[The Catdancer]

Originally Posted by paleshadow

With the disdain people have for human life it's really not that shocking. I mean, we live in a world where a parent just recently beat their toddler to death, stuffed them in a cooler and threw it into the ocean. That's what I find hard to understand.

Very true.

[skcin]

Dammit, I love Dove chocolate!