Every year Americans eat approximately twenty-two pounds of candy, chocolate, and other confections. How many times have you gone to your local Walmart and picked up some M&M's or a Snickers bar and thought nothing of it? Let's be honest. Who doesn't need that Three Musketeers pick-me-up after a long, hard Monday afternoon? And it only costs a dollar. Inexpensive, right? Well, let me tell you, that candy bar cost way more than one dollar. It also costs the life of a poor, innocent, defenceless animal. Every candy bar Mars Candy Inc. sells goes to support heartless animal tests. In fact, Mars Candy Inc. has been doing unnecessary testing on animals for a long time - despite the protest and pleads from PETA and other organizations for them to stop.
For example, Mars supported an extremely cruel experiment to learn how a chocolate ingredient called PQQ affects the metabolism by cramming baby mice into 200-milliliter Plexiglas metabolic chambers (that's approximately half the size of a 12-ounce soda can) and then submerging the chamber for nearly five hours in a chilled water bath, inducing labored breathing in the distressed mice. Experimenters then shoved tubes down the poor mice's throats every day for 10 days to force-feed them the PQQ. After all this inhumane experimenting they were killed and cut up for analysis.
Another cruel experiment done was actually published in a 2007 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience in which mice were fed flavonoids (phytochemicals that are found in chocolate) and forced to swim in a pool of water mixed with white paint. The water was mixed with paint to hide a submerged platform, which the mice had to find in order to avoid drowning. They survived this pathetic excuse for science only to be killed and dissected later.
Still have a sweet tooth for chocolate?. Well, you can still have it!. Mars' top competitor, Hershey's, has pledged not to fund or conduct experiments on animals.
If you are like me, you don't think candy is worth the life of an animal. If you want to help, you can do any or all of the following actions -
Call Mars headquarters at 1-800-627-7852 and let them know that you refuse to spend any money on Mars products until the company agrees to stop funding animal tests, and follow through with it.
Ask your friends to contact Mars and not buy Mars Candy products.
Fill out a customer service form at mars.com.
Go check out www.marscandykills.com and pass the information on to family and friends.
Caring people like you can stop these heartless experiments. We need your help to show Mars that this is unexceptable and that we will not tolerate it any longer. Remember, you can make a difference just by boycotting Mars Candy and other products. For more info, visit www.marscandykills.com
