PG Tips and Liptons

I'm a member of PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) and I am continually saddened by the treatment animals receive for meat and fashion.  I'd of thought tea was pretty safe but turns out mice and rats are being experimented on for this also....we tend to think of rats and mice as vermin...I did too until maybe 3 weeks ago...I was outside and out cat had a little mouse tortured and half dead....I actually saw the little creatures face wrinked in pain and its mouth in a screeching type grimmace....its a sight I can't get out of my head....Anyway, below is an email I received from PETA....please boycott PG Tips and Liptons if you, like me care for animal welfare.  Good on PETA!!!

PG tips and Lipton teas will leave a bad taste in your mouth once you know about the pain and suffering that mice, rats and other animals endured in deadly tests by the company behind them.

We learned that terrible and shocking procedures were conducted on helpless animals so that pointless health claims could be made about tea by the maker of PG tips and Liptons. The tests that were conducted include the following:

• Experimenters punctured the abdomens of live rats, creating an "artificial anus" permanently attached a tube to a vein in the abdomen vein and then force-fed the animals tea ingredients. Afterwards, the rats were bled to death, their carcasses were crushed and effects on their tissues were measured were observed.
• Experimenters used mutant mice with inflammation of the bowel in order to determine whether tea ingredients would affect the animals' symptoms. The mice who didn't die during the experiment had their necks broken or were suffocated with carbon dioxide.
• After isolating rats and feeding them tea ingredients, experimenters forced probes into the animals and pushed catheters so far up the animals' leg arteries that the devices reached their abdomens. The animals' blood pressure was then measured to observe the effects of the tea.
• Experimenters deliberately brain-damaged rats before feeding them green-tea extracts.

Sickening, isn't it? Each one of those rats and mice was a living, feeling individual with a life that was just as precious to him or her as your life is to you.

Last year, over 3.5 million animals were killed in vivisection laboratories in the UK alone – animals just like those who were abused in the terrible tests by the company behind PG tips and Lipton teas.

The numerous victories we achieve are only possible through the support of our members. Please help today by doing the following two simple things:

1. Make an online donation to save animals around the world from abuse. 2. Boycott products tested on animals, including PG tips and Lipton teas.

Research shows that the results of tests on rats don't apply to mice, and vice versa – so tests on animals are completely irrelevant to human beings. What's more, there are plenty of effective, cruelty-free testing methods available..

If we don't stand up for vulnerable mice, rats, rabbits, pigs and other animals suffering in laboratories, they will continue to suffer and die in cruel vivisection experiments. But with you behind us, PETA and our international affiliates are saving lives. Among our many achievements are the following:

• We supported cruelty-free non-animal methods which have now replaced painful skin tests on rabbits.
• We persuaded a key European Union agency to issue new guidelines on animal use in chemical tests that could save more than 4 million animals.
• PETA affiliates have persuaded more than 1,000 companies around the world to ban testing on animals.

With your help, we can continue to expose animal abusers, lobby decision-makers to abandon animal testing, educate the public and publicise the issues through the media and eye-catching demonstrations.

If you – like me – are angry and distressed at the terrible treatment of mice, rats and other animals in laboratories, please act. Animals are depending on us.

Very truly yours,

 

Ingrid E Newkirk
Founder

PS Every three seconds, an animal in a European laboratory dies. Every minute counts in the fight against vivisection, so please make a donation today to support PETA's work for all animals.