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Features > PETA Brings Iams/P&G Shareholder Resolution
PETA Brings Iams/P&G Shareholder Resolution
PETA’s shareholder proposal calling for an end to Iams’ tests
on laboratory-confined animals was heard at the Procter & Gamble (P&G)
annual meeting on October 12 in Cincinnati, Ohio. PETA representatives
addressing executives and shareholders inside the meeting had a chorus
of support outside, as a pack of dogs held a “snarl-in” to
voice their vocal opposition to Iams’ cruel experiments. Dozens
of PETA members from all over the Midwest came to Cincinnati, home of
P&G, to support PETA’s
resolution, which the P&G board advised shareholders to reject.
(Click here to view
an ad that PETA placed about the proposal in the Cincinnati Business
Courier.) The proposal called on Iams to use only humane, in-home
tests with dogs and cats who have been volunteered by their guardians.The proposal would also have required Iams to place all animals who have been used in its cruel laboratory tests in caring homes, as well as to include an assessment of its success in achieving the goals and objectives outlined in the proposal in its annual report. PETA staff members presented the resolution and local P&G shareholders spoke out in favor of the proposal. PETA became a shareholder after a former P&G employee who was opposed to animal testing willed PETA $110,000 in P&G stock.
Both P&G and Iams have long histories of harming and killing animals in tests, and Iams’ pet-food experiments are useless and indefensible. A PETA undercover investigation revealed abuses to animals inside an Iams contract laboratory, causing P&G and Iams embarrassment and a significant loss of customers. Hoover’s Online, the self-described “business information authority,” is covering concern about Iams’ treatment of animals in laboratories in its business report about the company. Learn more about the campaign and what you can do to help animals in Iams labs. |
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Iams Continues Cruel Experiments on Animals
Update: Iams Stops Using Chicks in Tests!
We Want Empty Cages, Not Slightly Nicer Cages
