Food Companies Kill Animals in Taiwanese Labs for Health Marketing

First, the good news!

After discussions with PETA, Standard Foods Group – Taiwan’s largest health food company and licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Company – became the first major Taiwanese food and beverage company to ban unlawful animal testing that it conducted or funded. to make human health claims for marketing their products.

In a groundbreaking decision, the company adopted a new government policy stating that “Standard Foods Group, while adapting to international scientific and animal welfare trends, will not conduct, sponsor or trust / outsource animal testing to third parties unless otherwise expressly not required. regulations. “Read more about this victory here.

We now need your help to pressure other major food and beverage companies in Taiwan to start the program and end similar horrific experiments that combined force-feeding, electric shock, drowning, starvation, bleeding, poisoning. , dissecting and / or killing more than 8000 animals in the past two decades.

In some of the tests these companies conducted, funded, or otherwise participated in – none of which were required by law – the experimenters fed the mice a common mixture of Chinese herbs and chicken essence, starved them for up to 24 hours, and threw them away. into beakers filled with water to see how long they fought before drowning, or stayed underwater for eight consecutive seconds. If animals could learn to swim and conserve energy, experimenters would stir the water to make them fight. To speed up the drowning process, the experimenters tied wires to the mice to make it harder for them to swim. (Watch the video below about the forced swim test, an experiment that is used for various purposes in litter science similar to what animals carry in laboratories in Taiwan.)

These outliers are on the wrong side of the story.

The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) – after receiving scientific commentary from PETA and thousands of calls from our supporters to end animal testing – recently made a historic statement that many vulnerable animals will no longer be drowned or electrocuted for companies in Taiwan. to declare the health benefits of food and drink from fatigue and that the agency will now prioritize internationally recognized animal-free tests to assess food safety. In addition to calling for the TFDA to amend legislation to prohibit diet food companies from maiming rats in an effort to claim health for joint protection, PETA is also leading the global trend against animal testing, convincing dozens of food and beverage companies … stop (or pledge never to start) experiments on animals.

Standard Foods’ ban on animal testing is a positive example that other Taiwanese can follow by doing safe research on humans instead of torturing animals. Please take action today and tell the major remaining health food companies in Taiwan to stop experimenting and killing animals for food and beverage marketing.