Mars Candy KILLS!

Okay, so a while ago I had figured out that a candy company names MARS does horrible animal testing.

My friend & I were coming back from the beach and we had stopped to get some candy.

I had bought three muskateers.

I looked all around the label.

Me: Darn, this is MARS!

Her: What’s Mars?

Me: It’s a candy company that makes a lot of popular candys and does horrible animal testing..

And it went on from there. We told everyone we knew about MARS candy and we even had a riot at school.

We handed papers out to students saying to visit the website and call the number.

We really help spread the word.

So these are the candys that MARS makes:

• M&Ms
• Snickers
• Skittles
• Milky Ways
• Starburst
• Three Musketeers
• Twix
• Dove
• M-azing
• Cocoavia
• Ethel M
• Lucas
• Munch

Many of you had probably never heard of the last 5 listed, I haven’t seen them in stores nor do I know what they taste like.

Since finding out about Mars candy, a lot of people in our community have refused to buy MARS candy.

Here are some of the tests Mars runs (copied & pasted from www.marscandykills.com):

• Mars recently funded an experiment on rats at the University of California, San Francisco, to determine the effect of chocolate ingredients on the animals’ blood vessels, even though the experimenter admitted that studies have already been done using humans. Experimenters force-fed the rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats and then cut open the rats’ legs to expose an artery, which was clamped shut to block blood flow. After the experiment, the animals were killed.
• Mars funded a deadly experiment on mice that was published in a 2007 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience in which mice were fed flavanols (phytochemicals that are found in chocolate) and forced to swim in a pool of water mixed with white paint to hide a submerged platform, which the mice had to find in order to avoid drowning, only to be killed and dissected later on.
• In one experiment supported by Mars and conducted by the current Mars, Inc., endowed chair in developmental nutrition at the University of California, Davis, rats were fed cocoa and anesthesized with carbon dioxide so that blood could be collected by a needle injected directly into the heart—a procedure criticized by U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher Dr. William T. Golde, who notes: “This is not a simple method. … Missing the heart or passing the needle completely through the heart could lead to undetected internal bleeding or other complications.”
• Mars supported a cruel experiment to learn how a chocolate ingredient called PQQ affects metabolism by cramming baby mice into 200-milliliter Plexiglas metabolic chambers—around half the size of a 12-ounce soda can—and then submerging the chamber for nearly five hours in a chilled water bath, inducing labored breathing in the distressed mice. Experimenters then shoved tubes down the mice’s throats every day for 10 days to force-feed them the PQQ, after which they were killed and cut up for analysis.
• Mars funded a test in which experimenters forced rabbits to eat a high-cholesterol diet with varying amounts of cocoa, then cut out and examined tissue from the rabbits’ primary blood vessel to the heart to determine the effect of cocoa on rabbits’ muscle tissue.
• Mars supported a test in which experimenters attached plastic tubes to arteries in guinea pigs’ necks and injected cocoa ingredients into their jugular veins to examine the effect of cocoa ingredients on their blood pressure.

I know, right! How crazy are these people!!

So in general you can help by NOT BUYING MARS CANDY!

I know MARS is coming out with a few new candys, so you can check by making sure it’s not MARS by flipping it over on the back and there should be somewhere around that a big MARS or sometimes it just says it in teeny letters. Sometimes it’s under the flap, too. (YOU CAN’T HIDE YOUR CRUELNESS!)

For more info visit www.marscandykills.com!

If you have ANY questions please comment!

Thanks for your time! (:

-Hazelleaf