Boycotting Mars Candy Co. Over Animal Cruelty

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[FONT=Trebuchet MS]Planet Ark : PETA Boycotting Mars Candy Co. Over Animal Cruelty

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[FONT=Trebuchet MS]WASHINGTON - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling for a boycott of M&Ms, Twix candy bars and other snack foods made by Mars Inc, claiming the company funds experiments that kill mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.

[/FONT] [FONT=Trebuchet MS]"In violation of its own written policy, the candy company is currently funding a study at the University of California, San Francisco, that uses rats. The rats are force fed by having plastic tubes shoved down their throats, and they are then cut open and killed," PETA said in a statement....


PETA said in its statement that Mars paid for experiments in which mice had to swim in a pool of water and paint and find a hidden platform to avoid drowning and were killed later. The group also accused Mars of funding an experiment in which plastic tubes were surgically attached to guinea pigs' carotid arteries and cocoa ingredients were injected into their jugular veins to cause a sharp drop in blood pressure, and another experiment in which rabbits were fed high-cholesterol diets with varying amounts of cocoa and later the main blood vessels to their hearts were cut out and examined. The University of California, San Francisco, declined immediate comment.[/FONT]

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It's somewhat old news that Mars tests on animals but I'd never seen the details about guinea pigs before :/ I already boycott Mars but that inclusion really spurred me on to post about it here when I saw it on Veggieboards.[/FONT]

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Thats sick. I already knew about that, and I got some Mars Planet tube for xmas and ate it because someone told me they had stopped supprting all that junk...then I realised they meant they had stopped the whole non-veggie thing. Grr what a nightmare! I also have a packet of Malteasers but I wont be eating them, I wouldnt have eaten the damm Mars ethier if I had known they were still doing it. I have a good mind to send it to the Malteasers company with a letter explaining why I do not want their chocolate in my house. But then they will probably shrug it off, its been brought they have the money so what? Thats the unfortunate thing about these big companies.

Any ideas what I should do with the malteasers? Oringinal ideas welcome I dont want to throw them away, I want people to know WHY