Launching MarsCandyKills.com December 10, 2007
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Many of you have heard about our campaign to pressure Mars to stop sponsoring animal tests. We've just launched a site specifically for the campaign so please check it out at MarsCandyKills.com.
Please think twice before picking up a Mars candy bar! You should know that candymaker Mars, Inc.—creator of M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Dove, Three Musketeers, Starburst, Skittles, and other candies—funds deadly animal tests, even though there are more reliable human studies and not one of the tests is required by law.
Mars is currently funding a deadly experiment on rats to determine the effects of chocolate ingredients on their blood vessels. Experimenters force-feed the rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats and then cut open the rats' legs to expose an artery, which is clamped shut to block blood flow. After the experiment, the animals are 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.
Please visit MarsCandyKills.com and take action to stop these deadly animal tests.
Comments
Thats sick. I just ate M&Ms today! I hope they freakin' fall off of a cliff. I wonder if they would like people to shove them in tubes and put them in freezing water, or maybe we should stab their hearts for a little blood. Better yet! We should just kill them. Then dissect them!
Posted by: Duffi at December 11, 2007 8:07 PMwhen i read about what they do to the animals it made me realllyyyyy SAD and reaaalllllyyy angry.. and im NEVER eating mars again!
Posted by: Veronica at March 6, 2008 7:46 PMstop testing you cruel people my school is gonna stop you
why are they doing these experiments to the mice and rats?
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That's really dissapointing...I love Mars Candy, but if they're doing that to poor little animals there's NO WAY i'm ever eating anything they make again.
Posted by: Richelle at December 11, 2007 4:15 PM