17
Jul
Mars Swap-Shop: This Chocolate Bar for That Rabbit’s Life
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More than 5,000 petition slips have been sent to the UK branch of Mars in a bid to get the company in the US to stop funding painful and deadly tests on mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. What really rattles us and is that these experiments aren’t even required by law and violate Mars’ own written policy. Try that on for size! So steer clear of M&M’s, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Starburst, Skittles and other Mars products (like this school-kid did) until Mars commits to a permanent international ban on conducting and funding tests on animals. In the meantime, get your sugar fix from other goodies, like the delicious selection at the Vegan Store (think vegan ‘Mars’ bars and chocolate covered ‘marshmallows’. Drool…).
Anyway, back to the serious stuff, in a letter sent with the petitions, we urge Mars to forward the slips to the company’s US president and ask if similar tests are being conducted in the UK. And this is something we would all want to know about, as PETA US discovered that just a handful of tests which Mars has funded include:
• Rabbits forced to eat high-cholesterol diets with cocoa. Later, the animals were killed, and the primary blood vessels connected to their hearts were removed and examined.
• Rats force-fed through plastic tubes, which were shoved down their throats. Then the rats were cut open and killed.
• Plastic tubes were surgically attached to guinea pigs’ carotid arteries, and cocoa ingredients were injected into their jugular veins.
• Mice were forced to swim in a pool of water and paint. To avoid drowning, they had to find a hidden platform – only to be killed later.
Turning animals into cocoa junkies, eh? All for a chocolate bar. Think I’ll pass thanks, will you?
This is awful! I”m going to do a story for http://www.wheaterville.com, Wheatland, WY alternative newspaper.
Maybe we can get some more letters sent. What a good cause!
lo