In a banner month, Uni-President, Asia’s largest food company, and Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan, considered one of Taiwan’s main mushy drink manufactures and bottling accomplice for The Coca-Cola Firm there, each introduced—following discussions with PETA—that they’re banning all animal assessments not explicitly required by regulation.
And extra excellent news! Yakult U.S.A. additionally confirmed to PETA that Yakult Co., Ltd.—recognized for its probiotic drinks in Taiwan—is now formally included within the up to date coverage of its mother or father firm, Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., that bans such animal assessments.
Since 2000, these firms mixed carried out, funded, or commissioned experiments that concerned mutilating and killing greater than 1,200 mice, rats, and hamsters.
How Are Animals Utilized in Meals and Drink Testing in Taiwan?
Amongst different horrors, experimenters funded by these meals and beverage firms had achieved the next:
- Compelled mice to carry out a sequence of stress-inducing behavioral assessments and force-fed them rooibos purple tea till they died
- Compelled mice to inhale chemical vapors and mud mites with the intention to induce bronchial asthma and force-fed them a yogurt drink
- Injected rats with a drug to induce diabetes, force-fed them purple yeast, and repeatedly starved them
- Fed a minimum of 40 hamsters a high-cholesterol weight loss program with or with out tea and starved them for 12 hours (The animals’ blood was repeatedly taken, and so they have been all finally killed and dissected.)
PETA’s Progress to Finish Animal Testing in Taiwan
In banning horrific animal assessments after listening to from PETA, Uni-President, Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan, and Yakult Co., Ltd., be part of different conscientious, forward-thinking firms in Taiwan in making this compassionate determination, together with the next:
- Standard Foods Group, the biggest health-food firm in Taiwan and licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Firm
- Vitalon Foods Group, the third-largest health-food firm in Taiwan
- Lian Hwa Foods Corp., well-known for its snack meals and a significant provider to comfort retailer large 7-Eleven in Taiwan
“The champagne is flowing at PETA due to the information that three of Taiwan’s main meals firms have nixed merciless animal assessments. We thank them for bringing us nearer to a day when no animal is maimed, force-fed, or killed in makes an attempt to make doubtful human well being claims for advertising meals and drinks.”
—PETA Vice President Shalin Gala
Take Motion for Animals in Taiwan
PETA members and supporters are calling on greater than a dozen of Taiwan’s different meals firms—together with Nestlé licensee AGV Merchandise Corp.—to decide to banning pointless and merciless assessments on animals. Tens of hundreds of individuals have already taken motion, and becoming a member of them takes lower than a minute utilizing your cellphone or pc. What are you ready for? Get began now:
