Mars

Current boycott calls

PETA

PETA is calling for a boycott of Mars over the company's funding of animal testing. They detail the following experiments are conducted by the company:

'Mars recently funded a deadly experiment on rats to determine the effects of chocolate ingredients on their blood vessels. 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 has also funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of a water mixed with white paint. The mice had to find a hidden platform to avoid drowning, only to be killed and dissected later on. In yet another experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and anesthetized with carbon dioxide so that their blood could be collected by injecting a needle directly into their hearts, which can lead to internal bleeding and other deadly complications.'

Uncaged

Many brands made by Mars Petcare UK were listed on the Uncaged website's petfood and animal testing page under the 'brands to boycott' section as these products were tested on animals.

Past boycott calls

BUAV

BUAV listed Mars as one company to be boycotted because they tested their pet food products on animals. In September 2008 BUAV stated that “The BUAV no longer runs active boycott campaigns against individual companies - we prefer to focus on encouraging all companies to sign up to our Humane Cosmetics Standard.”