Report on Iams

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Forwarded from Animals In Print Issue 6/12/01

 

IAMS - the suffering behind the science

 

You wouldn't think that a pet food company would cut

up, make sick, and kill innocent animals. THINK AGAIN.

 

Uncaged Campaigns have carried out another shocking

exposé of the vivisection industry. This time, the

spotlight of truth has been turned on pet food company

IAMS, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble since 1999.

Today's Sunday Express (article attached) describes

how IAMS have been performing painful and deadly

experiments on dogs and cats for several years. IAMS

is currently being heavily advertised in the UK, and

is a major sponsor of Crufts which is taking place

this (25-28 May 2001) weekend. Uncaged Campaigns will

be at Crufts today (Sunday 27 May) to raise awareness

of IAMS cruel experiments with visitors, celebrity

guests and stall-holders. The suffering behind the

IAMS 'science' has not been brought to the public's

attention -- until now.

 

Buried in obscure scientific publications are the

details of experiments on at least 460 cats and dogs

supported by the IAMS company -- cats and dogs just

like our cherished companions. These experiments were

not designed to help the animals involved. These

innocent victims were simply used as disposable

objects -- a means to an end. Behind the corporate PR

lies a painful reality...

 

28 female cats had their abdomens cut open and

solution injected repeatedly into their bowels.

(Nutrition Research: 1319-1328, September 2000)

 

24 young dogs were given kidney failure by the removal

of one kidney and the damaging of the other. All the

dogs were killed after being fed an experimental diet

and their kidneys analyzed. (American Journal of

Veterinary Research: 1357-1365, August 1991)

 

18 young Great Danes were fed on differing diets and

at eighteen months of age their bones from their front

and back right legs were cut out and then stressed

until they broke. Pigs were also used in similar

experiments. (Proceedings of 1998 IAMS Nutrition

Symposium: 29-40)

 

18 beagle puppies were dosed with a drug that damaged

their kidneys. Blood samples were taken repeatedly and

urine collected via a tube inserted into the puppies'

bladders via their penises. All the dogs were killed

and their kidneys' analyzed. (American Journal of

Veterinary Research: 948-956, June 1996)

 

Dan Lyons, director of Uncaged Campaigns, comments:

" No reasonable person can ever accept the conduct of

painful and lethal experiments on one animal in the

distant hope that some information might emerge that

might be useful for another animal. After all this is

similar what the Nazi's did -- experiment on some

humans supposedly to try to benefit other humans. I

look after a wonderful cat, Zorro, and I'm deeply

concerned for his welfare -- but I could never, ever

think it right to perform painful and deadly

experiments on another cat even if I thought it would

benefit Zorro. It's nasty, violent and unfair.

 

" There's nothing wrong with trying to find out how to

improve diets for animals, but the right way to do

that is to observe the same guidelines that exist for

medical research involving children. Samples and

readings can be taken during veterinary or medical

treatments that are conducted for the benefit of those

individuals. Post mortem studies can be carried out if

tragedies occur and children or animals die. Other

noninvasive and harmless observations can be made. But

it is deeply hypocritical and unethical to buy animals

bred specifically to be vivisected, and then inflict

suffering and death on them. If IAMS were genuinely

concerned about animal welfare they would not be

actively damaging and slaughtering innocent animals.

We call on them to stop vivisection immediately and

adopt cruelty-free research methods. "

 

For further information and interviews, please contact

Dan Lyons on 07799 117694, and see our website at

www.uncaged.co.uk

 

Source: Chibob44

 

 

 

 

 

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