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Please see PETA Vice President Shalin Gala’s statement regarding the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to drop animal testing from its draft blood pressure health claim regulation for foods, after hearing from PETA:

PETA applauds the proposed change by the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) of a draft regulation to delete animal testing for blood pressure health claims on foods and beverages. If included in the final version of this regulation, this progressive move will prevent countless animals from being used in cruel and stressful experiments, which involve locking genetically hypertensive rats in laboratory cages, feeding them foods of interest in three dosages for at least eight weeks, and measuring the animals’ blood pressure response using the stress-inducing tail-cuff method.

The TFDA’s proposed revision to its draft regulation on blood pressure health claims for foods comes after PETA’s detailed scientific critique submitted at the agency’s request. This also follows the agency’s other recent historic announcements—after receiving scientific comments from PETA and thousands of our supporters’ pleas to end animal testing—that scores of vulnerable animals would no longer be drowned or electroshocked in order for companies in Taiwan to make anti-fatigue health claims for food and beverages and that the agency would also now prioritize internationally recognized, non-animal tests for assessing food safety.

In addition to pushing for the TFDA to amend a draft regulation to prohibit health-food companies from mutilating rats in attempts to make joint-protection health claims, too, PETA is leading a global trend against animal testing—having persuaded dozens of food and beverage companies to end (or commit to never starting) experiments on animals, recently including major companies in Taiwan, such as Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan, Yakult Co., Standard Foods Group, Vitalon Foods Group, and Lian Hwa Foods Corp. We continue to press more than a dozen others in Taiwan to follow suit.

PETA looks forward to a day when all food tests are conducted through superior, human-relevant research methods that leave gentle mice and rats in peace.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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Please see PETA Vice President Shalin Gala’s statement regarding recent animal experiments supported by Ajinomoto Co., Inc., despite the company’s assurances to the contrary:

Despite assurances that Ajinomoto Co., Inc., the world’s leading maker of MSG, made during a recent annual meeting that it would not test on animals for nonmedicinal foods, three new studies prove that it continues to support horrific, animal-killing experiments indiscriminately.

The company conducted an experiment testing essential amino acids—which are present in just about any food, medicinal or not—in which experimenters drilled holes into the skulls of genetically altered mice, injected viral substances into their brains, force-fed them amino acids, took their blood, and killed and dissected them. Ajinomoto also contributed materials to another test in which experimenters repeatedly deprived mice of water overnight, fed them common food substances such as miso and MSG, cut open their faces to expose a nerve, inserted electrodes into their faces, killed them, and cut off their tongues. In yet another test to which Ajinomoto donated materials, experimenters mated pigs, fed the mothers common amino acids, cut them open and took their uteri and babies, and then killed and dissected the babies.

These animals endured horrendous torment so that Ajinomoto could enhance its bottom line. They suffered and died for nothing more than profit, in tests not even required by law. Ajinomoto, a company with a long history of harming dogs and other animals, must immediately get on the right side of history and listen to the more than 230,000 people who have called on it to join the dozens of global food companies—including MSG competitors like McCormick & Company and B&G Foods—that have banned animal tests after discussions with PETA.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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Now that 47% of Americans want to incorporate more vegan foods into their meals—and after PETA caught workers beating turkeys sold by companies with “humanely raised” labels—PETA is kicking off a bird-friendly “ThanksVegan” by handing out free Tofurky feasts to passersby on Friday.

When:    Friday, November 19, 4–6 p.m.

Where:    Outside Trader Joe’s and Sprouts, between 2050 and 2060 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa

The group will also stream its previously banned TV commercial featuring a little girl who says grace before her family’s Thanksgiving dinner—and turns her prayer into a graphic description of the ways in which turkeys suffer in the meat industry—before football games this Sunday and on the holiday.

“When people realize that turkeys love their families, feel pain and fear, and value their lives, they’re eager to put a Tofurky on the table,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA offers recipes, shopping tips, and more so that everyone can enjoy a delicious ThanksVegan meal that leaves gentle birds in peace.”

Turkeys can live up to 10 years, but those raised for food are usually slaughtered when they’re between 12 and 26 weeks old—and millions are killed each year for Thanksgiving alone. The young birds are hung by their feet from metal shackles and dragged through an electrified bath, and they’re often still conscious when their throats are slit and they’re dumped into scalding-hot defeathering tanks.

Shoppers can find ready-to-roast vegan turkeys at Safeway, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Sprouts, and Whole Foods, and restaurants from coast to coast will highlight their #ThanksVegan menus. This includes Arizona favorites Green New American Vegetarian, with locations in Phoenix and Tempe, and Lovin’ Spoonfuls in Tucson.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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