Candy Giant Targeted for Funding Painful and Deadly Animal Experiments

Las Vegas - Wearing little more than a banner that reads, "The Naked Truth: Mars Tortures Animals," PETA members will protest near the M&M's World store at the Showcase Mall this Thursday. Other members will hold posters that read, "Mars Kills Animals in Lab Tests" and hand out leaflets explaining how candy-giant Mars funds painful and deadly tests on mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits. The action is one in a series of nationwide protests in which PETA members will stake out stores that sell candy and ask holiday shoppers to boycott M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, Starburst, Dove, Skittles, and other Mars-made products:

· In tests that are currently being conducted, rats are force-fed by having plastic tubes shoved down their throats. They are then cut open and killed by being stabbed in the chest.
· Mice were forced to swim in a pool of water and paint and find a hidden platform to try to avoid drowning--only to be killed later.
· Plastic tubes were surgically attached to guinea pigs' carotid arteries, and cocoa ingredients were injected into their jugular veins.
· Rabbits were forced to eat high-cholesterol diets with cocoa. Later, the primary blood vessels to their hearts were cut out and examined.