In a sweet victory for animals, global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA.

The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any animal testing for any purpose, unless explicitly required by law.”

Candy-Coated Cruelty

PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program spares animals from the deadly experiments that food and beverage companies sometimes use to establish dubious health claims for marketing products or ingredients.

Before joining PETA’s program, a Ferrero subsidiary paid experimenters to force-feed mice cholesterol substances and kill them by bleeding them and breaking their necks before slicing them open. Meanwhile, Agropur paid experimenters to force-feed mice sugar, fat, and probiotics before puncturing their hearts to kill them.

Agropur also previously donated its products to experimenters who fed rats a high-fat diet to cause obesity, sugar intolerance, hypertension, and stroke; fed them dairy proteins, starved them, jammed catheters into their intestines and veins, and injected them with sugar or insulin. Some animals suffered from loss of coordination, immobility, incontinence, convulsions, and rapid, extreme weight loss before they were killed and sliced open.

Save Animals While Satisfying Your Sweet Tooth

Ferrero and Agropur join more than 400 companies and brands that have signed PETA’s Eat Without Experiments pledge. Browse our list to see which food and beverage companies test on animals and which don’t.

Then, please TAKE ACTION and tell Mondelēz International, maker of Oreo and other snacks, to stop pointless experiments on animals by joining PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program.

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