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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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- plus jamais зa...........
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RAGOT J
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- The animals are our brothers
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laetitia
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Yann L
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- I politely ask Procter & Gamble to stop animal testing without delay; in the meantime and from today, I am boycotting all P&G's brands products, without any exception.
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Rion
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Martine L
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- FOR TOTAL BOYCOTT Iams
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lisa
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- I always bought Iams food for my dog and cat not anymore..this is disgusting what they do to animals , they have rights too
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leclerc
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cristino j
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- stop!!!
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Sera R
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- I would never have expected something this horrific from pet food manufacturers and Veterinarians who apparently enter the job for the love of animals!
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Nicolas P
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carol j
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- disgusted will never buy that dog food!
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Khristine S
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Rhiannon P
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- The treatment of those animals is absolutly disgusted. IAMS should be banned from any type of exoerimentation on any animals. If they continue then the whole business shut be shut down. It is absolutly appalling.
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Stephanie A
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- The videos were disgusting! How can a company allow this sort of thing to go on!! I thought we lived in a decent society! These people should be put through the same things as the animals!
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Michelle
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- after reading this, absolutely not 1 single IAMS ptoduct will ever come into my household on any circumstance.As bad as the ecomomy is Iams could be giving their ptoducts away for free and I still will not have them. I am ashamed of Proctor & Gamble for knowingly allowing this to happen!!
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- i will no longer by food from iams
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Marina
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Torres
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- STOP а l'abus
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lauren
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Joe G
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- Absolutley disgusted and horrified. Glad I never gave my dog iams. It breaks my heart to think of any animal treated in such a way. Those who are capable of such cruelty in the name of science should be made to endure the same as they inflict.
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- with you and together !!!!stop that !!
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- no
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Serena
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- thats not right what they are doing
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- just stop it; it's not necessary
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alexis
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- stop the massacre
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- 2000\% with you !!!!!!
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