Tell Candymaker Mars Inc. to Drop Deadly Animal Tests | Vegan Candy Lists

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Please click on and sign Tell Candymaker Mars Inc. to Drop Deadly Animal Tests!


BACKGROUND | FROM PETA

Got a sweet tooth? Think twice before picking up a Mars candy bar! You should know that candymaker Mars, Inc.,—the creator of M&M’s, Snickers, and other candies—continues to fund deadly animal tests, despite the fact that more reliable human tests are available and that none of the tests are required by law.

Mars recently funded a deadly experiment on rats to determine the effects of chocolate ingredients on blood vessels. Experimenters force-fed the rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats and then cut open the rats’ legs to expose arteries, which were clamped shut to block blood flow. After the experiment, the animals were killed. Mars has also funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of paint and water. The mice had to find a hidden platform to avoid drowning, and after the experiment they were killed and dissected. In yet another experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and then anesthetized with carbon dioxide. Their blood was collected by having needles jabbed directly into their hearts, which can lead to internal bleeding and other deadly complications.

Mars is also lying to the public claiming that it doesn’t fund cruel animal tests, even though we have uncovered a history of such experiments.

Mars’ top competitor, Hershey’s, has pledged to PETA that it will not fund or conduct experiments on animals. Please urge Mars to follow Hershey’s lead and immediately end all support for animal tests!

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RESOURCES | VEGAN CANDY

• Airheads Taffy (website)
• Allison’s Gourmet vegan caramels (website)
• Annie’s Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks (website)
• Azure Chocolat Beauty Bark (website)
• Biona Organic Wine Gums (link)
• BoomChocoBoom! Ricemilk Bar (website)
• Brachs Fruit Slices (website)
• Charms Blow Pops (website)
• Charms Pumpkin Flat Pops (website)
• Chick-o-Sticks (website)
• Chuao Chocolatier Spicy Maya (website)
• Clif Kid Organic Twisted Fruit (website)
• Crispy Cat Candy Bars (website)
• Crows (website)
• Cracker Jack (website)
• Cry Baby Candy (website)
• Diivies Super Stars (website)
• Dots (website)
• Dum-Dums (website)
• Endangered Species dark chocolate (website)
• Endangered Species Dark Chocolate Halloween Bug Bites (website)
• Ginger People Ginger Chews (website)
• Go Max Go candy bars (website)
• Goody Good Stuff Sours (website)
• The Humphrey Company Original Popcorn Balls (website)
• Jolly Ranchers hard candy (website)
• Let’s Do Organic Gummy Bears (website)
• Mamba Sour Fruit Chews (link)
• Mary Janes, regular and peanut butter kisses (website)
• Newman’s Own Licorice Twists (website)
• Now and Later (website)
• NuGo Organic Chocolate Bar (website)
• Panda Soft Licorice (website)
• Peanut Chews, Original Dark (website)
• Pez (website)
• Pure Fun Organic Halloween Pops (website)
• Q.Bel Double Dark Wafer Bars (website)
• Saf-T-Pops (website)
• Seitenbacher Gummy Candies (website)
• Sjaak’s Organic Chocolates (website)
• Sour Patch Kids (website)
• St. Claire’s Organic CandyTarts (website)
• Stockley’s Cinder Toffee Candy (link)
• Super Bubble (website)
• Surf Sweets Fruity Bears, Gummy Swirls, and Super Sour Bears (website)
• Swedish Fish (website)
• Sweet & Sara Marshmallow ghosts and bats (website)
• Tropical Source chocolate bars (website)
• VerMints (website)
• Whizzers Chocolate Beans (website)
• YummyEarth lollipops (website)

VEGAN CANDY

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mars, your candy is too bittersweet
too many innocent animals
are tortured and die
so you can sell
your “treats”

Karen Lyons Kalmenson