Boycott Mars
Awwww! poor animals. That is horrible! I wonder what they would think if the tables were turned...
I wrote a letter to Mars company, and no more candy from this company. I feel it's time now to stop the abuse in any form to animals. We all need to stand together, vote, sign petitions, educate yourself. What ever it takes to motivate yourself, please do it now for the animals. Tomorrow may be too late....
Not going to name any specific companies mentioned here. I understand that animal treatment is important. I hope that you will take into consideration the treatment of cocoa/sugar farmers (potentially child laborers) when promoting...
I agree Elizabeth M. all exploitation of the innocent and voiceless is unacceptable. Animal rights just happens to be my personal beef. I'm sure there are plenty of people fighting for the rights of those kids.
how do you consider unnecessary? this petition is too vague. You really need to be specific before you start a petition. Are they testing the likeability for anials, this probably be unharmful other than making obese animals. be specific,
signed, animal lover with a brain
I don't have to be specific with this petition because I am against all animal testing, period. You would know that if you had read and digested my posts.
I should start by outlining my views on animal testing, so that you know where I'm coming from, even if you disagree with me.
1) I won't use cosmetics which I know have been tested on animals.
2) I am in full support of animal testing for medical purposes, because I am quite prepared to be experimented on myself if it means that someone else can have a better quality of life. I will admit that I wouldn't like to be killed in the name of experimentation, but that's because I'm worried about the effect it would have on the people I left behind. As far as mice are concerned, as far as I am aware no study has shown them to have the same social structure as we do or the same grief, as this would probably be a bad thing in an animal with so many natural preditors.
As far as I can tell, these experiments carried out by Mars are actually medical in nature, examining the effects of a chemical found in chocolate on bodily functions. For two main reasons I support these experiments:
1) Any step forwards we can take in curing alzeimers is a good thing, especially if it's as easy as a chemical found in chocolate.
2) I would like to know that eating chocolate isn't going to make me ill, unless I eat too much of it. If I found out that eating chocolate could make me ill in later life, I'd probably think twice about it. This may not be the case for all, judging by the number of people who smoke, take drugs and drink to excess.
Also, any excuse to eat more chocolate is a good excuse if it turned out to be beneficial.
I did not realize that a candy company even needed to experiment on Animals. I do understand that since you can not legally experiment on humans that they must use animals, but what kinds of experiments are really being done here?
Feeding dogs and cats and monkeys experimental candy?
