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Supreme Cat Show
For the fourth year running since our initial expose of IAMS/Eukanuba's
and Procter & Gamble's (P&G) cruel animal testing, Uncaged Campaigns
had a stand at the Supreme Cat Show at the NEC in Birmingham (the cat
equivalent of Crufts).
As usual we were soon swamped by visitors to our stand, which contained
information leaflets about IAMS/Eukanuba (who have a massive stand at
the Show), petitions calling on the GCCF to take an ethical stand against
the company. A TV showing the video of PETA's undercover exposes really
caught people's attention!
The effect of our campaign against IAMS' animal testing soon became apparent
as dozens of people informed us how they'd stopped using IAMS/Eukanuba,
and also told their friends, family, customers, and fellow club members
to boycott the brand. The absence of people walking around with IAMS/Eukanuba
promotional bags was quite striking, as was the large amount of Arden
Grange (who don't test on animals) promo bags.
ACTION:
Write to the GCCF to urge them to take a stand against the cruel practices
of IAMS/Eukanuba and P&G:
Jackie Geeson,
Governing Council of the Cat Fancy,
4 - 6 Penel Orlieu,
Bridgwater,
Somerset TA6 3PG, UK.
Email: info@gccfcats.org
If you get a reply, use the IAMS pages of
our website to formulate your response or forward your correspondance
to info@uncaged.co.uk
More IAMS Cat Cruelty
Despite the fact that there was absolutely no mention of any
'Research Policy' by IAMS/Eukanuba until after our initial exposé
in May 2001, IAMS is now claiming that it formulated a policy not to kill
cats or dogs in March 1999 (when it was acquired by animal-testing consumer
products company Procter & Gamble).
This policy - if it exists at all - does not apply to animals other than
cats and dogs. However, documents from the University of Mississippi Medical
Center (UMMC) regarding IAMS-funded research conducted by Dr. Roger B.
Johnson shows once again that IAMS caused animals to die in experiments
after supposedly instituting this no-kill policy!
In a letter sent from the chair of UMMC's Institutional Animal Care and
Use Committee (IACUC) to Dr. Johnson, the chair notes that Dr. Johnson's
experiment (entitled "Effects of diet on the initiation of gingivitis")
"is assigned protocol number 0801 with an approval date of November
16, 1999." Since Dr. Johnson had to have IACUC approval before proceeding
with his experiment, his project could not have started before November
16, 1999. In fact, according to Dr. Johnson's "Animal Activity Protocol"
for this experiment, the anticipated starting date for the study was December
1, 1999. In item number 19 of Dr. Johnson's "Animal Activity Protocol,"
he stated, "At the end of the experiments, animals will be euthanized."
In item 22 of the same document, Dr. Johnson again states, "Animals
will be euthanized at the end of the test period."
As if this isn't troubling enough, IAMS lied again with regard to an
experiment it funded which ran from 1st June 1999 to 30th May 2001, at
the University of Kentucky, entitled, "Lipid Metabolism in Feline
Hepatic Lipidosis (FHL): Impact of Taurine and Carnitine." In publicly
available documents obtained from the University of Kentucky, Dr. Geza
Bruckner - the primary investigator for this project - states in his "Research
Project Proposal" that the cats used in the experiment would be "fed
a high caloric diet low in LPUFAs [long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids]
and deficient in taurine and marginal in choline and methionine until
they gained at least 30% above their lean bodyweights, thus minimizing
stores of these nutrients."
He goes on to note that such a diet would "rapidly precipitate
the development of FHL [feline hepatic lipidosis]," a condition
for which "[t]he mortality rate in cats even with aggressive
nutrition therapy approximates 40% and approaches 90% in untreated cats."
IAMS had nearly three months - from the time its 1999 'policy' supposedly
went into effect to the time that this experiment started - to insist
that Dr. Bruckner either change the protocol to comply with IAMS' new
'policy' or risk losing IAMS' funding altogether. Instead, IAMS allowed
this experiment to continue without any change, knowing full well that
death was likely to occur for cats with induced FHL!
According to the university's records, four cats died during this IAMS
experiment:
- Cat number 4785 was "[f]ound dead" on August 23,
2000.
- Cat number 4790 was euthanized on August 10, 2000, "because
of [a] grossly large spleen."
- Cat number 4799 died on August 15, 2000, after which a "necropsy
revealed diseased kidneys."
- Cat number 4787 was euthanized on June 20, 2000, "because
of indications [of] renal disease (high creatinine)."
More on this story: www.iamscruelty.com
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