A historic victory for the animals! After negotiations with PETA Standard Foods Group – the largest health food company in Taiwan and licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Company – became Taiwan first a large food and beverage company to prohibit animal testing is not required by law that it previously passed or funded for human health claims to market its products. This life-saving decision by Standard Foods Group will undoubtedly impact other food and beverage companies in Taiwan and elsewhere in the world to follow suit.
“Standard Foods Group, in keeping with international scientific and animal welfare trends, will not conduct, sponsor or outsource / outsource animal testing unless otherwise expressly required by regulations.”
—Standard Foods Group
“Thousands of animals have been bled, sick and killed so that companies can advertise healthy foods and beverages. PETA would like to thank Standard Foods Group for the innovative policy that others in Taiwan must follow by using safe human research instead of cruel animal testing. ”
—PETA Vice President Shalin Gala
PETA Leads Efforts to End the Use of Animals in Taiwan Food Experiments
PETA has written to 19 other health food companies in Taiwan that have collectively force-fed, electroshocked, drowned, starved, bleed, poisoned, autopsied and / or killed over 8,000 animals over the past two decades in laboratory experiments – none of which are required by law, urging them to ban this archaic practice.
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Call on companies to ban animal testing
Following pressure from PETA, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) issued the first-ever statement that the horrific drowning and electric shock tests performed by some of these companies no longer make claims against fatigue marketing of food and beverages. … And more good news recently came from Taiwan: after receiving information from PETA, TFDA is prioritizing animal-free testing methods for assessing food safety.
PETA also provided scientific criticism and forced more than 95,000 conscious people – from consumers to medical experts – to write to the TFDA and urge it to ban animal testing for a separate joint health protection statement in food and beverage marketing that is currently pending review.
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