Most people would never associate animal cruelty with their morning cup of tea. However, Lipton Teas, owned by British-Dutch household goods’ giant Unilever, previously known for its tasty teas, is now getting a blast from American animal rights’ group PETA for their cruel and unnecessary animal experiments.
According to PETA, rabbits, mice, rats and baby pigs are suffocated and even decapitated in tests that are not required for beverage makers.
Lipton Teas are sold in more than 150 countries around the world. Parent company Unilever has enormous reach considering that more than 160 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
Via PETA
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It's just that sort of knee-jerk, ignorant reaction that spawned the term "the masses are asses". So you threw out all your Lipton tea because you read a 3 paragraph article that makes baseless accusations with no supporting evidence, from an organisation known for it's blind extremist propaganda?
written by Peter , January 19, 2011
written by Peter , January 19, 2011
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 affected 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.
Rats were forced to eat a high-sugar diet, and then tea was given to the animals to see if it had an impact on their sugar-induced brain damage. Other rats had their abdominal wall punctured and were fed radioactively labeled tea ingredients through a tube in their stomachs in order to examine the absorption of tea in the body. Then they were killed, frozen with liquid nitrogen, and crushed.
Piglets were exposed to E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to see if the tea affected fluid loss and diarrhea. As part of the tests, experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive. The piglets were then killed.
written by pudzzy , January 21, 2011
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.
Rats were forced to eat a high-sugar diet, and then tea was given to the animals to see if it had an impact on their sugar-induced brain damage. Other rats had their abdominal wall punctured and were fed radioactively labeled tea ingredients through a tube in their stomachs in order to examine the absorption of tea in the body. Then they were killed, frozen with liquid nitrogen, and crushed.
Piglets were exposed to E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to see if the tea affected fluid loss and diarrhea. As part of the tests, experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive. The piglets were then killed.
written by pudzzy , January 21, 2011
The PETA article that announces this testing HAS stopped is knee deep in comments about what people will or will not do UNTIL it stops. One theme is not buying form Nestle. Which is odd in an article about Unilever.
written by ZOMG , June 21, 2011
written by ZOMG , June 21, 2011
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Shame on you Lipton.
written by Jedda Matthews , December 28, 2010