PETA sends its congratulations to Unilever. The company is one of the first brands to join a revolutionary new program to help consumers determine which food and beverage companies are not testing animals.
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“Eat without experimentation”
The website Eat Without Experiments (“A Food Without Experimentation”) from PETA USA offers a database of companies ranked according to their animal testing policies – from those that test on animals to those that have signed the pact of PETA USA guaranteeing that they have stopped testing on animals and will never do so again. The latter category now includes Unilever.
Unilever is one of several companies that have already signed PETA USA's pact, pledging to never test on animals.
Ask Côte d'Or to do the same
Internet users can also send emails and take action through the site to urge Mondelēz International (the owner of Belin, Côte d'or, LU and several other well-known brands) to stop torturing and killing animals during of tests aimed at making misleading claims about the effects of their products on human health.
Mondelēz International forced mice to ingest human feces and rats to eat junk food, before killing and dissecting the animals. All this despite the fact that regulatory agencies in the United States, European Union and Canada require that human studies, not other animals, be used to verify claims made regarding the food safety. The regulations of the American food and drug monitoring organization specify that “studies [sur les animaux] do not provide information enabling scientific conclusions to be drawn regarding a relationship between the substance and disease in humans” because “ [l]The physiology of animals is different from that of humans.
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