‘Sweet’ Progress: New Pfeifer & Langen Policy Limits Animal Experimentation
For Immediate Release:
November 5, 2025
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
In a major win for animals, Köln-based beet sugar producer Pfeifer & Langen has adopted a public policy pledging not to “conduct, commission or finance” animal experimentation unless required to by law, following discussions with PETA.
Since at least 1989, the company has funded numerous experiments on rabbits, dogs, mice, rats, sheep, and pigs. In one test, experimenters inserted tubes into sheep’s lungs and arteries, before killing them. In another, experimenters force-fed pregnant rabbits a substance before killing them and their babies.
“Thanks to Pfeifer & Langen, many animals will be spared from being infected with germs, poisoned, cut up, and killed in pointless experiments,” says PETA Germany Manager Sabrina Engel. “PETA congratulates Pfeifer & Langen for this compassionate move and urges Oreo maker Mondelēz International to follow suit.”
PETA’s groundbreaking Eat Without Experiments program features a database of food and beverage companies categorized by their policies on animal experimentation, from those that test on animals to those that have signed PETA’s pledge for no animal testing.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
