Taiwan FDA Moves Away From Deadly Animal Tests After PETA Push

Pressure from PETA supporters has once again saved animals’ lives around the world as the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced it will no longer recommend that companies conduct cruel experiments on animals to establish dubious claims about digestion for marketing food and beverage products sold in Taiwan. More than 25,000 PETA supporters urged the agency to make the policy change—and it listened. The TFDA will no longer recommend that experimenters force-feed rats, starve them for 24 hours, jam tubes into their intestines, tie off part of their stomachs, and take their digestive fluids before killing and dissecting them. The change marks a shift toward state-of-the-art, compassionate science and sets an important example for other regulatory agencies around the world to follow.