Group urges uni president to follow suit
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Jul 26, 2021
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Taipei – After negotiations with PETA and Kindness to Animals (KiTA) in Taiwan, Vitalon Foods Group—Taiwan’s third-largest health food company and maker of Super Supau, Taiwan’s top-selling sports drink brand, have banned all animal testing not expressly required by law.
Vitalon Foods and its subsidiary YEC Biotechnology Co. conducted and / or funded at least 12 animal experiments from 2005 to 2019, involving at least 1,038 animals, in an effort to claim human health for marketing products such as green tea and royal jelly. Upon hearing from PETA and KiTA, Vitalon Foods has introduced a new policy stating: “Vitalon Foods Group, while adapting to international scientific and animal welfare trends, will not conduct, sponsor, or outsource / outsource animal testing to third parties. unless explicitly required. according to the rules “.
“No animal should have blood, get sick and kill with cruel and unreliable tests just to try to establish healthy claims for food and beverage marketing,” says PETA vice president Shalin Gala. “Vitalon Foods’ good decision to ban these animal testing will help PETA push other Taiwanese food industry experiments in a more efficient, ethical, cost-effective direction that excludes animals.”
PETA has sent 20 Taiwanese health food companies, including its largest food and beverage conglomerate Uni-President Enterprises Corp. and licensee Nestlé AGV Products Corp., urging them to stop unnecessary animal experimentation that entails force feeding and electric shock. , drowning, starvation, bleeding, poisoning, autopsy and / or killing of more than 8000 animals in the last two decades. Vitalon Foods now joins Standard Foods Group – the largest health food company in Taiwan – in banning such tests, none of which are required by law.
Pressured by PETA, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) adopted two major reforms: First, it removed horrific animal drowning and electroshock testing from regulations affecting companies trying to make fatigue-reducing health claims when marketing its products, and secondly, it has updated its food safety testing regulations to prioritize “non-animal testing methods that are recognized worldwide.” PETA and over 96,000 people are now calling on the TFDA to ban animal testing for a separate health protection statement in the marketing of food and beverages.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human excellence. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…