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Features > Meet Iams Researchers
Meet Iams ResearchersThey may look nice, but don’t be fooled … behind these smiling faces are people responsible for the mutilation, torture, and deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of dogs and cats in Iams-funded tests.Iams’ research policy says that it will not conduct or fund invasive or lethal experiments on animals. And we might have believed Iams had the company not lied to us about providing proper veterinary care, enrichment and socialization, and exercise for animals in its contract labs. Click here for more information. But we believe that Iams has found ways to hide its nasty experiments on animals. For example, it may fund a chair position at a university where nutrition-related tests are conducted or it may sponsor conferences such as those held by the International Elbow Working Group, the members of which conduct orthopedic experiments on animals, such as one published in the Journal of Animal Science in June 2003 that resulted in the deaths of nine Great Danes and eight miniature poodles used to study skeletal disorders. If you have knowledge that Iams is violating its own research policy or playing word games with consumers, please contact PETA. If the information that you supply shows that Iams is hoodwinking the public, you may be eligible to receive a reward of up to $5,000. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wrote to PETA in response to our complaint that Iams was making false statements regarding the care that it gives to animals used in tests: “[W]e appreciate that for many consumers, a company’s policies toward animal research and welfare may well affect their choice of or conduct regarding a product. … Therefore, a company’s public dissemination of its research policy may, depending on the circumstances, be ‘advertising’ subject to the substantiation requirements of Section 5 of the FTC Act.” The Iams researchers listed below have long histories of cutting into and killing dogs, cats, and other animals so it’s not unreasonable to wonder if they have really changed their ways. One of the major players in Iams’ deadly experiments is Diane Hirakawa, Iams’ senior vice president of research & development. Please e-mail her right now, and tell her what you think about cruel laboratory experiments on animals. Tell her that Iams must immediately end all laboratory experiments on animals and instead use in-home tests or studies in veterinary clinics with dogs and cats who have been volunteered by their human companions. And when you get a form reply back, telling you that everything is just fine, keep pushing. The dogs and cats used by Iams need your strength and persistence. The following is a small sample of the hundreds of painful and deadly experiments carried out by Iams researchers:  Diane
HirakawaSenior Vice President of Research and Development, Iams In one experiment, she intentionally put 24 young dogs into kidney failure, removed their right kidneys, conducted numerous painful invasive procedures on the dogs over a matter of months, and then killed the surviving dogs. White JV (University of Georgia), Hirakawa DA (The Iams Company), et al. Effect of dietary protein on functional, morphologic, and histologic changes of the kidney during compensatory renal growth in dogs. Am J Vet Res 1991 Aug;52(8):1357-65.  Dan
CareyDirector of Technical Services, Iams He once removed 31 dogs’ kidneys to increase their risk of renal damage, keeping the surviving dogs alive for 48 months to study them, then killed and dissected the dogs. In a private meeting, he referred to dogs as "specimens." Finco DR (University of Georgia), Carey D (The Iams Company), et al. Effects of aging and dietary protein intake on uninephrectomized geriatric dogs. Am J Vet Res 1994 Sep;55(9):1282-90.  Gregory
SunvoldDirector of Clinical Research and Intellectual Properties, Iams In an Iams experiment, he surgically forced 28 cats into kidney failure. The cats either died during the experiment or were killed by Sunvold to study the effects of protein on their kidneys. Finco DR, Sunvold G, et al. Influence of protein and energy in cats with renal failure. In: Reinhart GA, Carey DP, eds. Recent Advances in Canine and Feline Nutrition, Volume II: 1998 Iams Nutrition Symposium Proceedings. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press; 1998. p. 413-24.  Gregory
A. ReinhartVice President, Strategic Research and Communications Research and Development Division, Iams He chemically damaged 18 male beagle puppies’ kidneys, fed them experimental diets, inserted tubes into their penises, and then killed them. Grauer GF (Colorado State University), Reinhart GA (The Iams Company), et al. Effects of dietary n-3 fatty acid supplementation versus thromboxane synthetase inhibition on gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicosis in healthy male dogs. Am J Vet Res 1996 Jun;57(6):948-56.  A.J.
LepineResearch and Development Division, Iams He removed the ovaries and uteruses of 56 dogs to study the effects of beta carotene on their “reproductive performance.” Weng BC (Washington State University), Lepine AJ (The Iams Company), et al. Beta-carotene uptake and changes in ovarian steroids and uterine proteins during the estrous cycle in the canine. J Anim Sci 2000;78:1284-90.  Jürgen
ZentekIams Chair in Clinical Nutrition University of Vienna, Austria In one of the most gruesome experiments imaginable, he killed six healthy 6-month-old Great Dane puppies and then “minced, lyophilized, fat extracted with light petrol, dried and ground” the puppies in order to conduct a “total body analysis.” Kienzle E (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich), Zentek J (The Iams Company), Meyer H. Body composition of puppies and young dogs. J Nut 1998 Dec;128(12):2680S-3S.  Patrick
R. GavinChief Scientific Officer at the Iams Pet Imaging Center Vienna, Virginia Just before joining Iams, Gavin conducted a cruel experiment to test the safety and precision of “intensity modulated radiation therapy” (IMRT) in dogs. In addition to exposing 15 young adult dogs to high doses of radiation, inflicting a pathological softening of the spinal cord on them (myelomalacia), and subsequently killing them, he made the following callous comments in his published research paper: “[W]e wanted to deliver a [radiation] dose likely to cause severe damage to the spinal cord …” “The six dogs in Group A developed severe neurologic dysfunction …. [T]he dogs were unable to support weight or walk.” Gavin, PR (Washington State University), et al. Spatial accuracy of fractionated IMRT delivery studies in canine paraspinal irradiation. Vet Radiol & Ultrasound 2003;44(3):360-66. |
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