Other "Pet Food" Companies: Contracting With Killers

Nestlé Purina PetCare Company

On November 20, 2002, several representatives from Friskies visited the laboratory that we investigated. During the course of their visit, the Friskies staff members were taken on a carefully orchestrated tour and met with the president of the facility, who told them that a socialization and enrichment program was in place when, in fact, no such program exists.

On December 5, 2002, Nestlé’s Nancy Johnson sent an e-mail message to the president of the laboratory. In the message, Johnson indicated that the facility was “impressive” and offered to “donate” 40 cats to the laboratory for use in Nestlé Purina PetCare Company’s “waste collection and cat litter studies.”

If Nestlé’s officials found this laboratory “impressive,” we shudder to think of what its own facilities must be like. We asked Nestlé Purina to stop using contract laboratories to test its litters and, instead, to employ in-home studies using cats whose human companions have volunteered to monitor them (i.e., humans must “record and remove urine clumps and feces and rotate litter pans daily”).

The company has not responded to our concerns. Please demand that Nestlé end its use of animals in laboratories for nutritional and cat litter tests, both of which are completely unnecessary:

W. Patrick McGinnis
President and CEO
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company
Checkerboard Sq.
St. Louis, MO 63164-0001
314-982-1000
314-982-2134 (fax)

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