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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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- This makes me sick!
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- No animal deserves to be treated this way!!!!
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- bummer
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- I HATE IAMS! THEIR FOOD IS CRAP AND MADE BOTH MY CATS SICK!
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- c'est honteux et m'a donnй le frisson!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- End the cruelty now
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- i wish every pain inflicted on these animals on the people at iams and P&G
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- I will not buy your food again!!
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- I hope someone listens soon
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Judy F
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- How dare a company who wants out trust to provide a product for our beloved pets and then treat them as no better then Auswitz prisoners. I shall never buy an Iams product again and I will spread the word far and near............
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Judith M
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- In this modern day of advanced computer technology, why do you, P & G - the Parent Company, feel the necessity to test ANY of your products on live, innocent, defenceless animals??? Disgusting!!!!
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Renee H
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- I did not know that tests were done on dogs and cats and I am totally against this cruelty to animals.
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- I believe this is a horrible way to treat any animal
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Karin W
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- What a totally inhumane way to do testing i am disgusted.
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- I will not buy P&G!!!
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Carol S
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- If this is true then it must be stopped - animal lovers buy these products and therefore will not tolerate this kind of treatment - I will cease to purchase Iams/Proctor and Gamble products unless and until i am satisfied that this practice does not happen or has ceased and I will advise all my animal lover friends of my decision. I am also passing this info to all those who can join in this
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- Dear Obama, please regulate these people.
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- i would buy your products if you guaranteed that you DID NOT test on animals..
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- This sort of maltreatment of animals is completely unacceptable.
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- most strongly disagree with any form of animals being used for any type of testing
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- Stop now
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bonnie S
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- i will never buy iams products again. nor will all of my family and friends we all had no idea of what gos on behind iams closed doors
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