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In an eye-opening new video, PETA is urging the top U.S. blueberry growers group to stop its rotten practice of paying experimenters to douche, poison, starve, irradiate, suffocate, behead, slice open animals, and more in deadly tests. We need your help to get this junk science canned.
Experimenters funded by the berry council have tormented countless animals in painful tests that are not legally required nor relevant to human health, including by doing the following:
- Restrained rats in tubes smeared with cat food while a cat was in the room, causing post-traumatic stress disorder like symptoms in the rats before killing and dissecting them.
- Repeatedly starved mice, took their blood and injected them with chemicals before douching their vaginas, killing and dissecting them.
- Injected mice with cancer cells, fed them fruit, then killed them.
- Fed rats blueberries, restrained them in plastic tubes, damaged their brains with radiation, forced them to perform confusing and stressful memory tasks, killed them by cutting off their heads, and dissected them.
- Fed mice a high-fat diet and then starved them, repeatedly took their blood, and cut out 70% of their stomach before jamming a catheter into their arteries, killing and dissecting them.
- Surgically injured rats’ brains and forced them to perform stressful behavioral tests before killing and dissecting them.
These experiments are bankrolled using mandatory assessment fees that struggling farmers are forced to pay and are done in an attempt to help market blueberries to consumers. But because humans are vastly different from other animals, the results are irrelevant.
Blueberries have a long, long history of safe human consumption. Instead of killing animals, researchers could use safe and effective human studies and other advanced, animal-free methods to achieve superior, human-relevant results. In fact, the health benefits of blueberries have already been well-established in human clinical studies.
Take Action Against Fruitless Experiments
It doesn’t have to be this way. Following talks with PETA, other agricultural boards, including the Hass Avocado, Mango, and Watermelon boards, have adopted policies banning the funding and conducting of tests on animals. Numerous other major food and beverage manufacturers have, too.
Please take action and urge the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council to stop funding all experiments on animals. You can do so by sending polite comments to the following person:
Kasey Cronquist
President
US Highbush Blueberry Council
[email protected]
Then, use the form below to contact other board members.
After you take action, you’ll see an easy way to share this information. Please ask five friends or relatives to support this campaign!