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Petition to tell Mars Inc. to stop animal testing

The petition I created to tell Mars Inc. to stop animal testing has been updated with some new information about the issue (see "Latest News").

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/tell-mars-inc

1000 signatures and counting, can we please count yours in too?
Please sign and forward.

Please note that this is different from PETA's own action alert email on their site at http://marscandykills.com

The action alert email on that site goes to 4 executives at Mars, who have probably long ago set up email filters to delete the messages. My petition is going to hundreds of Mars executives worldwide and some members of the Mars family who own the company/company heirs, who have the power to make a change regarding the company's animal testing pol icies. These executives have already been made aware of the petition via personal emails I have sent to them. So please sign, this petition does indeed have the potential to make a difference with Mars Inc.

PETA's own efforts are wonderful, protests in front of 3 M&Ms World Stores before Christmas, in New York, Orlando, and Las Vegas, a website that is being seen by thousands of people ( http://marscandykills.com ), etc.

My petition has detailed info that is beyond what you will find on PETA's site, since I have been working on this issue for months already. For those interested, just go to the petition page and see all the "latest news".
Please sign and forward, and let's see 2008 be the year in which Mars Inc. actually listens to consumers who care, and decides to cease using cruel, outdated animal testing once and for all.
Thank you!


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/tell-mars-inc
Please sign and make comments on the petition, and also forward the link to friends and crosspost this.

Thank you!

[veggo_dude]

Signed Good luck with the petition!!


For the animals,
veggo_dude

[admin]

My first question is what exactly are mars doing? So I went hunting ... the site link above gives the following information:

Mars recently funded a deadly experiment on rats to determine the effects of chocolate ingredients on their blood vessels. Experimenters force-fed the rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats and then cut open the rats' legs to expose an artery, which was clamped shut to block blood flow. After the experiment, the animals were killed. Mars has also funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of a water mixed with white paint. The mice had to find a hidden platform to avoid drowning, only to be killed and dissected later on. In yet another experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and anesthetized with carbon dioxide so that their blood could be collected by injecting a needle directly into their hearts, which can lead to internal bleeding and other deadly complications.

Mars' top competitor, Hershey's, has pledged not to fund or conduct experiments on animals.

Mars is also apparently lying to the public, claiming that it doesn't fund cruel animal tests, even though PETA has uncovered a history of such experiments.
If you call their Consumer Care hotline in the USA at 1-800-627-7852 (Mars' consumer hotline calls in the US are handled by the outsourced company TeleRX Marketing Inc. in Pennsylvania), they have a recorded message that says Mars does not conduct or fund any animal experimentation. If you speak to a Mars representative, they will read you the same statement. This has already been exposed in the media as a falsehood, with the University of California confirming in a statement to Reuters (see link below) that they are currently conducting animal research for Mars Inc. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been asked to investigate Mars' false claims; that Mars is apparently deceiving consumers with their policy statement saying they do not conduct or fund animal experimentation, when it is clear from news media and published articles in scientific journals that they do.

Tell Mars why you are opposed to animal testing and if you no longer wish to purchase their products in light of this news.

Web references to this issue can be found at:

http://www.marscandykills.com/