From: PETA India <newsmanager@petaindia.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:53:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Tell the Maker of Lipton Tea to Stop Abusing Animals!
PETA needs your help to urge the makers of Lipton to stop testing
their teas on animals. Hundreds of rabbits, piglets, mice and rats
have suffered and died in tests to support the company that makes
Lipton's marketing claims about its teas. Please urge the company the
makes Lipton to stop this cruelty.
The tests conducted by the company that makes Lipton and its
associates include the following:
* Rabbits were fed a high-fat, cholesterol-laden diet, leading to
extreme hardening of the arteries. They were then fed tea to see if it
could reduce the lesions that formed on the animals' arteries. After
the experiment, the rabbits' heads were cut off.
* Mice bred to suffer from a painful bowel inflammation were fed tea
ingredients in order to see if the tea had any effect on their
condition. After the test, experimenters killed the mice by
suffocating them or breaking their necks.
* Piglets were exposed to E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to
see if the tea could prevent fluid loss and diarrhoea. As part of the
tests, experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart. The piglets were
then killed.
Not one of these experiments is legally required for beverage makers,
and US and European regulators have stated that animal tests are not
sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.
Modern, cruelty-free research methods are available and are in use by
other leading beverage companies around the world.
We need you to speak up for the animals who are tortured and killed by
the company that makes Lipton. Please click here to urge the makers of
Lipton to stop testing and funding tests on animals.
Thank you for your compassion for all animals.
Sincerely,
The PETA India Team
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