Progress in Global Efforts to End Animal Experimentation! After talking with PETA and our friends from Kindness to Animals (KiTA) in Taiwan, Vitalon Foods Group– Taiwan’s third-largest health food company and manufacturer of Super Supau, Taiwan’s top-selling sports drink brand – has banned animal testing not expressly required by law.
“No animal should have blood, get sick, or kill in cruel and unreliable trials just to try to justify the benefits of marketing food and beverages. Vitalon Foods Group’s good decision to ban these animal testing will help PETA push other Taiwanese food experiments in a more efficient, ethical, cost-effective direction that excludes animals. ”
—Shalin Gala, Vice President, PETA
From 2005 to 2019, Vitalon Foods Group and its subsidiary YEC Biotechnology Co. conducted and / or funded at least 12 experiments with at least 1,038 animals.
The Vitalon Foods Group has previously supported invasive and lethal animal testing methods to justify claims made in marketing materials about the alleged human health benefits of its products, including green tea and royal jelly. But after receiving information from PETA and KiTA, the company established a forward-looking policy that states: “Vitalon Foods Group, while adapting to international scientific and animal welfare trends, will not conduct, sponsor, or outsource animal testing to third parties unless otherwise is not directly required by regulatory enactments. “
PETA has called on 20 diet food companies in Taiwan to stop unnecessary animal experimentation.
These tests have resulted in force-feeding, electric shock, drowning, starvation, bleeding, poisoning, dissection, and / or killing of more than 8,000 animals over the past two decades. Vitalon Foods Group now joins Standard Foods Group – the largest health food company in Taiwan – in banning such tests, none of which require Taiwanese law, after receiving a response from PETA.
In addition, PETA has successfully convinced the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) to adopt two important reforms: First, to eliminate horrific drowning trials and electroshock on animals from regulations regarding companies trying to make claims of fatigue reduction. for health in marketing its products, and secondly, by updating its rules for testing the safety of healthy foods to prioritize “globally recognized non-animal testing methods.”
PETA and our 96,000+ conscientious supporters are now calling on the TFDA to ban animal testing in a separate draft regulation for companies trying to make joint health claims in the marketing of food and beverages.
Please take action today to convince the remaining Taiwanese companies on our list that are still conducting animal testing to market food and beverages to participate in the program and end these horrendous experiments that do not promote human health, are not required by law, and there is no place in modern research.
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