In loving memory of our little bunny Koko who passed away this August after 8 years with us.
You know, there are some things in this world that one can ignore and then there are certain times where you have to stand up and say something about it. Children and animals deserve a fair chance in this world. I hate to see Oprah's little African girls enduring torture at her girls school or chickens being boiled alive for some slobbering fool to pick up for dinner at KFC. I for one have dropped Mars candy out of my diet and off of my shopping list (not that it was a daily item). You see, Mars tests chocolate ingredients on the blood vessels of lab animals. These animals would include rats, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits. How their blood streams are likened to ours, I will never know?! Mars has funded these cruel experiments and the animals are killed after being subjected to the cruelty. In some ways, I'm thankful that their lives are ended after this torture. But why do they have to suffer it in the first place? Yes *Steve*, even your precious Twix bars are among the heinous vein-pumping-rabbit-killing chocolates!
Get this, this is from the PETA website:
Mars has also funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of a water mixed with white paint.
What? When in life are you eating candy and then forced to dive into a pool of wet paint? I sure as hell hope this is not the placebo in the experiment. Is the mouse then supposed to try and swim back to get more candy? Are they getting us that addicted to their candy? SICKOS! Sick for testing on animals and sick for getting kids hooked on candies! SICK. SICK. SICK.
You can read more about PETA's investigations here. In the meantime, here is what not to eat or buy: M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Dove, Three Musketeers, Starburst, Skittles, Milky Way to name just a few.
signed, the willow
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