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In a life-saving step forward for animals, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) is considering sparing rats from starvation and beheading in gruesome digestion experiments. PETA needs your help to ensure the agency follows through.
The TFDA has proposed a new regulation to its health food testing rules, which would end cruel digestive experiments on rats and instead require superior, human-based tests.
This is a compassionate, common-sense change from the existing regulation, which instructs experimenters to force-feed rats, starve them for 24 hours, jam tubes into their intestines, tie off part of their stomachs, repeatedly take their digestive fluids, cut off their heads, and dissect them.
The tests purportedly examine whether certain foods improve digestibility, protect the stomach lining, and more, so companies can make health claims about their food products. But because rats are not miniature humans, it’s dubious junk science with a high body count.
What You Can Do
Pressure from PETA supporters has helped save countless animals in Taiwan from being drowned or electroshocked, bred to develop hypertension, and more. You can do it again.
Please take action today by sending the TFDA a letter of encouragement, letting it know you appreciate its proposal and urging it to follow through so no rats are killed for digestive health tests. The agency is accepting public comments through November 30.