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Please spare a thought for the countless cats, dogs, mice, chicks, and rabbits languishing in Iams laboratories. These poor creatures are forced to undergo cruel, and often invasive, procedures none of which are required by any law .
Beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer, a 10-month PETA undercover investigation into an Iams contract laboratory revealed a dark and sordid secret: routine neglect and misery.
Abuses include the following:
Dogs dumped on cold concrete flooring after huge chunks of muscle were cut from their thighs27 of the 60 dogs were killed, and two others were later found dead in their cages
Dogs and cats gone stir-crazy from confinement in windowless, dungeon-like buildings
A procedure in which tubes were stuck down dogs' throats to force them to ingest vegetable oil
Dogs with such severe tartar build-up on their teeth that it was painful for them to eat
Vet technicians with inadequate training and experience performing invasive procedures
Our investigator videotaped Iams representatives visiting the laboratory, witnessing the animals in these abusive conditions, and doing nothing. When PETA went public with the evidence, Iams officials lied and said that they had no idea what conditions were like inside the laboratory that their own staff regularly visited! Iams then cut ties with the lab.
Iams and its owner, Procter & Gamble, still contract with outside laboratories like the one in our investigation. Iams also conducts experiments on animals in its own laboratory in the U.S. Iams says that, by October 2006, it intends to move all testing to its own facilityaway from prying eyesand will more than double the number of dogs and cats in its cages.
At the March 2004 Pet Food Forum, Iams spokesperson Dan Carey stated that he believed that dogs and cats could spend their entire lives in cages for laboratory studies. Iams' current welfare program states that dogs and cats need only receive a paltry 30 minutes a day, five days a week, of cage-free time (with no such provision during the weekend). This means approximately 165 hours a week of unrelieved anxiety, fear, boredom, depression, lack of social contact, and inadequate exercise for these naturally gregarious and fun-loving animals.
Compassionate dog-and cat-food manufacturers have proved, time and again, that reliable tests can be done humanely in a home environment or veterinary clinic with dogs and cats volunteered by their human companions. Iams can do the same.
More and more consumers are deciding that they are sick of Iams' cruelty to animals and are boycotting the company's products.
http://www.iamscruelty.com/
Beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer, a 10-month PETA undercover investigation into an Iams contract laboratory revealed a dark and sordid secret: routine neglect and misery.
Abuses include the following:
Dogs dumped on cold concrete flooring after huge chunks of muscle were cut from their thighs27 of the 60 dogs were killed, and two others were later found dead in their cages
Dogs and cats gone stir-crazy from confinement in windowless, dungeon-like buildings
A procedure in which tubes were stuck down dogs' throats to force them to ingest vegetable oil
Dogs with such severe tartar build-up on their teeth that it was painful for them to eat
Vet technicians with inadequate training and experience performing invasive procedures
Our investigator videotaped Iams representatives visiting the laboratory, witnessing the animals in these abusive conditions, and doing nothing. When PETA went public with the evidence, Iams officials lied and said that they had no idea what conditions were like inside the laboratory that their own staff regularly visited! Iams then cut ties with the lab.
Iams and its owner, Procter & Gamble, still contract with outside laboratories like the one in our investigation. Iams also conducts experiments on animals in its own laboratory in the U.S. Iams says that, by October 2006, it intends to move all testing to its own facilityaway from prying eyesand will more than double the number of dogs and cats in its cages.
At the March 2004 Pet Food Forum, Iams spokesperson Dan Carey stated that he believed that dogs and cats could spend their entire lives in cages for laboratory studies. Iams' current welfare program states that dogs and cats need only receive a paltry 30 minutes a day, five days a week, of cage-free time (with no such provision during the weekend). This means approximately 165 hours a week of unrelieved anxiety, fear, boredom, depression, lack of social contact, and inadequate exercise for these naturally gregarious and fun-loving animals.
Compassionate dog-and cat-food manufacturers have proved, time and again, that reliable tests can be done humanely in a home environment or veterinary clinic with dogs and cats volunteered by their human companions. Iams can do the same.
More and more consumers are deciding that they are sick of Iams' cruelty to animals and are boycotting the company's products.
http://www.iamscruelty.com/
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- I want more information about the lab, and legal procedings taken.
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Eurassia A
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- Shameful and digusting. There is already enough of this going on let alone from a company who is supposed to promote the health of animals!
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Jaymie I
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- Will NEVER buy IAMs products even if their policies do change. Goal is to shut down this company!
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Jaime D
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- Run IAMS into the ground!
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Fran H
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- This is very disturbing!
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Maisie B
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- I cannot believe this
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Oriana G
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- longtime Iams buyer...just quit! This is a disgrace!
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Kristy G
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- I will never buy Iams.
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Aunee N. W
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- Iams needs to take responsiblity! I will no longer buy their products.
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- I will make it my lifes work to spread the word about P&G. What a disgrace!!
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Debbi C
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- I Will never buy this food again!
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Elie S
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Katie G
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- This is ABSOLUTELY disgusting!!!! I think the people at IAMS should be forced into a cage with their only free time consisting of the torture they put these helpless and INNOCENT animals through every day!
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Elizabeth C
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- I hope that everyone will investigate Anna Nicole Smiths picture with the boycott Iams as I did. What is wrong with Iams and parent company Proctor and Gamble? I will just try to boycott both!
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Diane
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- STOP this cruelty to poor defenceless animals
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John A
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- ex-customer, of all people you should have known better and I don't even like PETA or PAWS.
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joan m
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- fines are not enough, jail time is in order.
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carlos
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- stop them - boycutt
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catherine b
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- we will no longer use Iams until the abuse stops and is proven to of stopped
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Paola M
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- Nunca imagine que una marca como esta podria hacer tal cosa a los animales...... y si es de ellos que viven como pueden maltratarlos asi???
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Mary F. S
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Alex K
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- This is disgusting, what those treacherous, heartless, evil Iams people are doing to the animals. They should be subject to the same torture they are committing to those poor animals, and feel the same pain.
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Kelly
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- Is it really necessary to do animal testing for the sake of pet food? C'mon, people, it's the 21st century! Get with the program. Animal testing is so yesterday, and it's terribly cruel and unnecessary. Animals shouldn't have to suffer like this. Please end the use of animals for the purpose of testing your pet food.
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Samantha F
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- I am disgusted...I have both a cat and a dog...People who abuse animals should be put to the same misery they inflict upon them.
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sara g
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- I have been an Iams customer for years and after reviewing the claims from credible sources will no longer purchase these products.
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Emily Ann M
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- WOW thats so horrid email me with your opinions
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Ryan R
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- This is simply the most appaling thing I've ever heard of in my life.
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falyn
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Lisa
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- This is absolutely disgusting. I have been telling everyone I know for a long time to boycott Iams- it is so low that they hide behind the veil of caring for animals while they perform these procedures that are clearly unnecessary- look at all the pet food companies NOT performing these tests who do just fine!
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