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Just four days after an FDA director assured a Senate committee that all manufacturers that received tainted wheat gluten have been identified, another company has stepped forward to recall food. Read more. |
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Iams Undercover Investigation UPDATE!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an official complaint stating that the contract laboratory investigated by PETA in 2002 and 2003, which was employed by pet-food manufacturer Iams, “has shown a lack of good faith.” The government complaint alleges that the following violations, among others, were documented by government inspectors at the contract laboratory from 2002 to 2005:
- Failure to provide pain relief to sheep used in experiments that caused pain or distress
- Failure to ensure that personnel were trained to perform experiments on animals
- Failure to provide veterinary care and to observe animals daily
- Failure to properly ventilate housing facilities for dogs and cats
- Failure to house cats with a sufficient number of litterboxes and resting surfaces
- Failure to keep animal-housing facilities clean and in good repair, resulting in injuries
- Failure to maintain comfortable temperatures in animal-housing facilities
- Failure to provide animals with sufficient space
Click here to learn how you can help convince Iams to stop funding animal experiments.
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Iams and P&G Cause Animals to Suffer Needlessly
For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover
at an Iams contract testing laboratory, where a dark, sordid secret was
discovered beneath the dog- and cat-food manufacturer’s wholesome
image. Our investigator found dogs who had gone crazy from intense confinement
in barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs who had been left on a filthy
paint-chipped floor after chunks of muscle had been hacked from their thighs,
dogs who had been surgically debarked, and horribly sick dogs and cats
who were languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer without
veterinary care.
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Iams' Own Exec Criticizes Company's Cruel Caging Policy
“The lesson learned here is that kennel studies are not an appropriate way to test feeding
guidelines because most kennels represent a high-stress ... environment.”
—Diane Hirakawa,
senior vice president of Iams Research and Development, Petfood Industry Electronic Newsletter
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Support Companies That Don't Test on Animals
Caring consumers might never guess that lonely animals are confined to
tiny barren cages in laboratories for years on end to test dog and cat
food. PETA has contacted hundreds of companion-animal food companies to
find out whether they conduct laboratory tests on animals. Numerous companies
responded to let us know that they do not.
Learn more »
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Talk to Your Local Shelter About Iams
If you volunteer at, donate to, or live near an animal shelter, please
urge the shelter to stop buying and/or promoting Iams products until the
company ends its cruel laboratory tests on animals. Click
here for Iams literature to give to the shelter.
Animal shelters across North America are joining the
Iams boycott. Let us know if your
local shelter is one of them.
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Update: Iams Stops Using Chicks in Tests!
Anna Nicole Smith Dogs Iams
PETA Calls on Iams/P&G Shareholders to Support Resolution
We Want Empty Cages, Not Slightly Nicer Cages
Important Update! Iams Funds Cruel Researcher From Wright State University
The Rotten Truth Behind Iams’ 'Dental Defense' Diets
