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Banning Mars Bar this Halloween

Written by Nina Smith

Tuesday, 30 October 2007

What do M&M’s, Snickers and Twix have in common besides chocolate?

Deadly animal tests!

Photo:blackberry, Creative Commons, Flickr

According to PETA , the chocolate-maker Mars Inc. (a private company) funds deadly animal tests:

Mars has funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of paint. In another gruesome experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and then sedated with carbon dioxide so that blood could be collected through a needle that punctured their hearts!

Yick! Leave it to gossip site Jezebel to ask the tough questions:

And while we can understand animal testing for cancer, is animal testing for candy really necessary?

Looking for a way this Halloween to take the bad tricks out of the treat? Mars’ top competitor, Hershey’s (NYSE: HSY) pledged to PETA that it will not fund or conduct experiments on animals. Here’s how you can urge Mars to do the same.

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Nina blogs about money at Queercents.

Disclosure: I do not own stock in any chocolate companies, but I eat plenty. No more Mars for me.

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written by David Neubert , November 01, 2007

What where they testing for that they need to puncture a little mouse in the heart?

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written by Queercents , November 01, 2007

David, that's a good question and I don't know. I'll see if someone from PETA can comment here for us.

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written by Nicole , January 02, 2008

I am outraged to hear about this and I am boycotting them as well and to hear about them possibly putting rennet in some candy...yuk!

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written by marie , October 02, 2008

i love candy but now i am boycotting mars bars becuase of what they do to rodents. Is this really nessasary? what eles arent they telling us?

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		Nina Smith is the publisher and founder of Queercents, a personal finance blog for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Since its launch in April 2006, a team of contributors have served up daily tips and money anecdotes written in a distinct and queer voice. Known for her Ten Money Questions series, Nina has been featured on Logo from MTV Networks and profiled in The Advocate magazine. She resides in Newport Beach, CA where her money spends the same whether it's carried in a purse or her back pocket.
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