"PepsiCo Declares No More Animal Tests!
PETA's campaign to convince food and beverage companies to drop animal tests has been gaining momentum, with Welch's, Ocean Spray, and POM Wonderful agreeing to drop all funding for animal experiments in favor of non-animal test methods. And now food-industry giant PepsiCo—the multibillion-dollar parent company of brands like Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Quaker Oats, and Gatorade—has joined the ever-growing list of companies that are creating innovative products without using animals in laboratory tests.
Prior to its agreement with PETA, PepsiCo and its partners had funded several experiments on animals:
The PepsiCo Foundation funded an experiment that involved surgically implanting testosterone pellets and human prostate tumors in mice and injecting them with an acid compound. Two animals died before the end of the study, when all the animals were killed.
PepsiCo's partner, Tropicana, funded a student research project that involved injecting 60 young rats with a chemical that causes colon cancer, leaving the majority of these animals to suffer with the disease for seven months, only to be killed at the end of the experiment.
PepsiCo's affiliate, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI), funded an experiment in which mice were infected with a respiratory virus and then forced to exercise on a treadmill for more than two hours for three consecutive days, after which they were all killed.
The GSSI funded an experiment in which live rats' hind limbs were cut open from the heel to the knee and their muscle tissue was cut out, after which the animals were killed.
The GSSI awarded several grants to students to conduct animal experiments, such as one in which a student caused rats' muscles to waste away in order to learn how various protein supplements could re-grow the tissue.
After PETA brought these experiments to the attention of PepsiCo executives, the company began discussions with us regarding what they could do to eliminate animal testing. As a result of this collaboration, PepsiCo has announced that it will not experiment on animals and is pledging to communicate its opposition to animal testing to all entities that the corporation works with.
'PepsiCo does not do any animal testing and does not directly fund testing using animals. … Where testing on animals is not required, PepsiCo strongly endorses efficient and effective research that does not include the use of animals. We will encourage our partners to use alternatives to animal testing and share this statement with organizations we believe to be involved in projects potentially involving animal research done on behalf of PepsiCo or with PepsiCo or PepsiCo Foundation funding.' "
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This is so weird, because last night I had a dream that I was walking into work. This was not were I work in real life, but some big, bright building with a lot of people going in and out.
I hesitated at the front door for some reason, and then went in. Inside the hallways were lined with what looked like shoe boxes with mesh on one side and inside each one was a pair of black bunny rabbits. Hundreds and hundreds of rabbits. I knew our company didn't sell rabbits, so I wondered why they were there as I walked past more and more boxes. Eventually I came to a room with a window facing the hall. I stopped and saw what they were doing to one of the rabbits.
It was horrible. Then I knew that they planned to do the same to all of the other rabbits and I freaked out inside. I wanted to run down the hall letting all the bunnies out, but knew they'd just be caught again and I'd be tossed out and nothing was going to change, except that they'd be more careful next time to hide what they were doing. So I decided I was going to save whichever animals I could by sneaking them out.
I went up to one of the boxes farthest from the room and looked inside. These rabbits were not black, but white with spots. I grabbed the bigger one of the two, and tried to cover him with my shirt. I very clumsily made my way out of the building and walked back towards where I parked, dropped the rabbit, and caught him, and dropped him again, and caught him again and finally made it to my car.
It was being towed by some repo guy (which was odd since it's paid off). I stood there with the bunny, who started to turn into a kind of fuzzy rabbit chicken kind of thing and wondered who I could called to come get me and the rabbit chicken while I went back in to get the other bunny. I almost cried I was so upset. Then I came into work and saw this in my email and the picture on the website is of a white bunny with spots and I remembered the dream.
PETA's campaign to convince food and beverage companies to drop animal tests has been gaining momentum, with Welch's, Ocean Spray, and POM Wonderful agreeing to drop all funding for animal experiments in favor of non-animal test methods. And now food-industry giant PepsiCo—the multibillion-dollar parent company of brands like Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Quaker Oats, and Gatorade—has joined the ever-growing list of companies that are creating innovative products without using animals in laboratory tests.
Prior to its agreement with PETA, PepsiCo and its partners had funded several experiments on animals:
The PepsiCo Foundation funded an experiment that involved surgically implanting testosterone pellets and human prostate tumors in mice and injecting them with an acid compound. Two animals died before the end of the study, when all the animals were killed.
PepsiCo's partner, Tropicana, funded a student research project that involved injecting 60 young rats with a chemical that causes colon cancer, leaving the majority of these animals to suffer with the disease for seven months, only to be killed at the end of the experiment.
PepsiCo's affiliate, the Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI), funded an experiment in which mice were infected with a respiratory virus and then forced to exercise on a treadmill for more than two hours for three consecutive days, after which they were all killed.
The GSSI funded an experiment in which live rats' hind limbs were cut open from the heel to the knee and their muscle tissue was cut out, after which the animals were killed.
The GSSI awarded several grants to students to conduct animal experiments, such as one in which a student caused rats' muscles to waste away in order to learn how various protein supplements could re-grow the tissue.
After PETA brought these experiments to the attention of PepsiCo executives, the company began discussions with us regarding what they could do to eliminate animal testing. As a result of this collaboration, PepsiCo has announced that it will not experiment on animals and is pledging to communicate its opposition to animal testing to all entities that the corporation works with.
'PepsiCo does not do any animal testing and does not directly fund testing using animals. … Where testing on animals is not required, PepsiCo strongly endorses efficient and effective research that does not include the use of animals. We will encourage our partners to use alternatives to animal testing and share this statement with organizations we believe to be involved in projects potentially involving animal research done on behalf of PepsiCo or with PepsiCo or PepsiCo Foundation funding.' "
www.caringconsumer.com/produc...psi.asp
This is so weird, because last night I had a dream that I was walking into work. This was not were I work in real life, but some big, bright building with a lot of people going in and out.
I hesitated at the front door for some reason, and then went in. Inside the hallways were lined with what looked like shoe boxes with mesh on one side and inside each one was a pair of black bunny rabbits. Hundreds and hundreds of rabbits. I knew our company didn't sell rabbits, so I wondered why they were there as I walked past more and more boxes. Eventually I came to a room with a window facing the hall. I stopped and saw what they were doing to one of the rabbits.
It was horrible. Then I knew that they planned to do the same to all of the other rabbits and I freaked out inside. I wanted to run down the hall letting all the bunnies out, but knew they'd just be caught again and I'd be tossed out and nothing was going to change, except that they'd be more careful next time to hide what they were doing. So I decided I was going to save whichever animals I could by sneaking them out.
I went up to one of the boxes farthest from the room and looked inside. These rabbits were not black, but white with spots. I grabbed the bigger one of the two, and tried to cover him with my shirt. I very clumsily made my way out of the building and walked back towards where I parked, dropped the rabbit, and caught him, and dropped him again, and caught him again and finally made it to my car.
It was being towed by some repo guy (which was odd since it's paid off). I stood there with the bunny, who started to turn into a kind of fuzzy rabbit chicken kind of thing and wondered who I could called to come get me and the rabbit chicken while I went back in to get the other bunny. I almost cried I was so upset. Then I came into work and saw this in my email and the picture on the website is of a white bunny with spots and I remembered the dream.
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