Friday, February 29, 2008

Got a Sweet Tooth?


Do you love candy? Well I know I do, especially chocolate. Well you should know something before you buy your next candy bar. Mars Inc. is the creator of M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Dove, Three Musketeers, Starburst, Skittles, and many other snackfoods. What you should know about Mars is that they fund deadly animal tests, even though there are more reliable human studies and not one of the tests is required by the law!! Here are just 4 of the many experiments that Mars conducts.

1. Mars funded an experiment at the University of California to determine the effect of chocolate ingredients in animals' blood vessels. There has already been studies done on humans to show the results, but they decided to go ahead with the research anyway. What they did was force-fed the rats by shoving plastic tubes down the rats' throats and than they would cut off the rat's legs to expose the artery. The artery was to be clamped shut to stop blood flow. After the experiment was over, the rats were to be killed.

2. In 2007, Mars conducted yet another deadly experiment on mice. They fed mice flavanols (photochemical that are found in chocolate) and forced them to swim in a pool. The water was mixed with white paint to hide a platform. The mice had to find the platform in order to avoid drowning, but they were only to be killed and dissected later on.

3. Another experiment they supported was to find development in nutrition. What they did was feed the rats coca and anesthetized with carbon dioxide so that blood could be collected from their heart. They injected a needle directly in the heart which lead to internal bleeding of the rats and many other painful complications.

4. Mars wanted to find out how a chocolate ingredient called PQQ affected metabolisms. They crammed baby mice into 200 chambers (they were around half the size of a 12-ounce soda can) and then they submerged the chambers into chilled water for nearly five hours. This induced labored breathing in the distressed mice. They then shoved tubes down the mice's throats every day for 10 days to force-feed them the PQQ. After all this was done, they then cut up the mice for analysis.

Like I said, these tests are NOT required by the law! Mars continues this research for no reason, because the result on HUMANS is already found. I suggest that you boycott Mars until it gives up these cruel and unnecessary animal testing’s for good.

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