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The IAMS Company have funded and participated in laboratory experiments on hundreds of animals that caused kidney failure, obesity, malnutrition, liver damage, severe allergic reactions, stomach inflammation, diarrhoea, severe skin disorders, lesions, skin wounds and other painful illnesses, and animals have been kept in barren dungeon-like conditions.
Dogs have been force-fed vegetable oil, had chunks of muscle removed from their thighs, and been 'de-barked' by having their voice-boxes cut out in a painful and bloody procedure.
In August 2000, in a response to a supporter of Uncaged, IAMS stated that "no invasive testing on animals is carried out on the IAMS diets."
Uncaged first exposed IAMS/Eukanuba's painful, invasive and lethal experiments on cats, dogs and other animals in 2001 after trawling through articles published in scientific journals. In some of the most horrific research cats and dogs suffered and died due to surgically-induced kidney damage. Severe allergies were inflicted on husky puppies and cats were killed in invasive abdominal experiments. See further down this page for more information about IAMS practices. A front-page story in the Sunday Express revealed these experiments to an unsuspecting world.
IAMS then suddenly developed a 'Research Policy,' claiming that they would not harm or kill cats and dogs. We asked IAMS to provide proof that, after 25 years of vivisecting animals, they had genuinely implemented such a policy. Tellingly, IAMS refused to do this, or even answer our searching questions about their so-called 'research policy.'
In March 2003 a new nine-month undercover investigation conducted by US group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) uncovered harrowing neglect and suffering endured by cats and dogs in IAMS-sponsored experiments. The damning evidence confirmed IAMS' 'research policy' to be nothing more than a sham designed to conceal shocking suffering inflicted on animals in IAMS research.
As a result of the two exposes of IAMS' cruel experiments on animals the following major UK animal organisations have severed ties with and distanced themselves from IAMS/Eukanuba and their parent company Procter & Gamble: the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust (formerly the National Canine Defence League), the Blue Cross, Wood Green Animal Shelters, Battersea Dogs Home, the Hedgehog Preservation Society, and hundreds of animal rescue centres, shelters, kennels, catteries, 'pet' supply shops, dog training centres, cat and dog clubs and breeders. They join the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens who will no-longer buy IAMS/Eukanuba and Procter & Gamble products.
Please note that everything that either Uncaged Campaigns or PETA has said about IAMS is based on documentary and/or video evidence. Make no mistake, if anything said about IAMS really was untrue or misconstrued, as IAMS would have you believe, we would have been sued and our websites taken down. We haven't.
This brief history of the campaign against IAMS' animal testing gives an idea of IAMS' record of lies and deceit. Rather than admit their faults and apologise to all the cat and dog guardians who quite rightly feel betrayed by this company, IAMS issue misleading and false 'policy statements,' and wage dirty tricks campaigns against Uncaged, the Sunday Express journalist who reported our exposé on the front page, and PETA.
xCocaineCookiex · Sat Dec 09, 2006 @ 07:55pm · 2 Comments |
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