Victory: Asia’s Largest Food Co., Coca-Cola Bottler, and Others Drop Animal Tests After PETA Appeals
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November 12, 2021
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Taiwan – In a banner month for good science and animals used for experiments, Uni-President, Asia’s largest meals firm, and Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan, one among Taiwan’s main mushy drink manufactures and bottling accomplice for Coca-Cola, each introduced—after discussions with PETA—that they’re banning all animal exams not explicitly required by regulation. Yakult U.S.A. additionally confirmed to PETA that Yakult Co., Ltd.—identified for its probiotic drinks in Taiwan—is now formally included within the up to date coverage of its mum or dad firm, Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., which bans such animal exams.
Uni-President performed or funded experiments that concerned mutilating and killing practically 1,000 animals since 2000. Experimenters pressured mice to carry out a sequence of stress-inducing behavioral exams and force-fed them rooibos pink tea till they died; pressured them to inhale chemical vapors and mud mites to induce bronchial asthma; force-fed them a yogurt drink; injected rats with a drug to induce diabetes, force-fed them pink yeast, and repeatedly starved them; and rather more.
Swire performed or commissioned a take a look at for a inexperienced tea product wherein experimenters fed no less than 40 hamsters a high-cholesterol weight-reduction plan with or with out the tea and starved them for 12 hours. The animals’ blood was repeatedly taken, they usually had been all in the end killed and dissected.
Yakult Co., Ltd., performed or funded experiments that concerned mutilating and killing practically 250 animals. Experimenters repeatedly force-fed rats a yogurt drink, repeatedly force-fed mice a yogurt drink and took their blood, and compelled them to inhale allergens to induce bronchial asthma and respiratory irritation. The animals had been all in the end killed and dissected.
“The champagne corks are popping at PETA after the information that three of Taiwan’s main meals firms have nixed merciless animal exams,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA thanks 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 and marketing meals and drinks.”
Uni-President, Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan, and Yakult Co., Ltd., be a part of Standard Foods Group, the biggest health-food firm in Taiwan and licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Firm; the third-largest health-food firm in Taiwan, Vitalon Foods Group; and Lian Hwa Foods Corp., well-known for its snack meals and a serious provider to comfort retailer big 7-Eleven in Taiwan, in banning unnecessary animal exams. PETA is looking on more than a dozen of Taiwan’s other food companies, together with Nestlé licensee AGV Merchandise Corp., to comply with go well with.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals are usually not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on the group’s newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or comply with PETA on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
