Three issues: Please consider veganism, send email for pigs, and write for mice …
1. Please go vegan!
2. Send automatic email to urge the discontinuation of pig vivisection.
3. Write Nestle to stop testing on mice, Sample Text provided.
From Mercy For Animals
A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation provides a shocking look into one of the nation’s largest pork producers – Iowa Select Farms in Kamrar, Iowa. At this factory farm, mother sows and their piglets are forced to suffer brutal abuse and lives of unrelenting confinement and misery.
Between April and June of 2011, an MFA investigator documented:
- Mother sows confined to barren metal crates barely larger than their own bodies – unable to turn around or lie down comfortably for nearly their entire lives
- Workers ripping out the testicles of conscious piglets
- Piglets suffering with herniated intestines, due to botched castration
- Conscious piglets having their tails painfully sliced into and yanked off with dull clippers
- Large, open, pus-filled wounds and pressure sores
- Sick and injured pigs left to languish and slowly die without proper veterinary care
- Mother pigs – physically taxed from constant birthing – suffering from distended, inflamed, bleeding, and usually fatal uterine prolapses
- Management training workers to throw piglets across the room – comparing it to a “roller coaster ride”
Footage | Warning, graphic:
Upon reviewing the undercover footage, world-renowned animal behaviorist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe denounced the facility, stating that “this video depicts scenes of unbearable suffering and inexcusable neglect. … This farm should be closed down at once.”
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Become VEGAN and reject all abuse.
From PCRM
Please take a minute to click on and ask University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine dean James E. Keeton, M.D., and University of Mississippi chancellor Daniel W. Jones, M.D., to stop the use of live pigs in the school’s medical student physiology lab. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:
- Please replace the use of animals in UMMC’s physiology lab.
- Anatomical and physiological differences between pigs and humans render this type of training suboptimal.
- UMMC is one of only seven schools in the United States and Canada that still use live animals for training.
- High-fidelity human-patient simulators more accurately represent human anatomy and allow for repetitive training.
- UMMC already has a state-of-the-art simulation center than can easily provide nonanimal training methods.
Click the “Send Message” button and your e-mail will automatically be sent to Dr. Keeton and Dr. Jones.
Can You Do Just a Little Bit More?
If you haven’t already done so, please participate in the following actions:
- Contact Tulane University School of Medicine senior vice president and dean Dr. Benjamin Sachs, M.B., and urge him to end the practice of using live animals
- Ask the University of Tennessee to End Its Cruel Pig Lab at its Chattanooga campus
- End the Use of Live Pigs at Baystate Medical Center
In these cruel tests, mice and rats were tormented and then killed by such means as decapitation. The following are some details of the horrors endured by the animals used in Nestea’s tea experiments:
- Mice bred to suffer from brain dysfunction and rapid aging were fed green-tea extracts and then locked in a dark chamber, only to receive painful electric shocks to their feet; the mice were then killed.
- Mice bred to suffer from muscle degeneration were fed green-tea extracts, after which experimenters cut open the animals’ leg muscles and then decapitated them.
- Experimenters injected toxic chemicals into mice to destroy insulin-producing cells, causing the animals to develop diabetes. After this cruel procedure, the mice were force-fed tea extracts and then killed.
- Rats made to suffer from high fat and cholesterol levels were forced to consume tea extracts through a tube that was forced down their throats; the rats were then killed and dissected.
Modern, cruelty-free research methods are available and are in use by other leading beverage companies around the world. We need YOU to join us in telling Nestea to ditch its cruel-tea to animals and to use non-animal methods instead.
Please take a moment to ask Nestea to stop testing on animals and join other brands—such as Lipton, Arizona, Snapple, Honest Tea, Tazo, Twinings, Stash Tea, Celestial Seasonings, Luzianne Tea, and others—that don’t experiment on animals.
Send polite comments to the below Nestle executives.
Individual:
Paul Bulcke
CEO
Nestlé S.A.
Paul.Bulcke@nestle.com
Brad Alford
CEO
Nestlé USA
Brad.Alford@us.nestle.com
Group:
Paul.Bulcke@nestle.com , Brad.Alford@us.nestle.com
Sample Text:
Dear CEOs Alford and Bulcke:
I am shocked to learn that Nestle continues to support animal experimentation, namely outdated and irresponsible cruel tests using mice and rats. Considered archaic and fundamentally flawed, product testing on animals lacks corporate legitimacy and social validation; indeed, numerous other beverage corporations have discontinued subjecting animals to such unprincipled testing. As such, as long as you continue to capitalize on the mutilation, torture, and death of animals, I will not financially support you.
Please make both the ethical and financially-responsible decision to discontinue animal experimentation immediately: join the increasing body of corporations who are listening to a concerned and attentive consumer population who refuse to be complicit in the inherently malicious industry of animal experimentation.
Thank you for taking the time to read this important message.
NAME | ADDRESS
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