Time to PAR-TEA! QTrade Tea Bans Animal Tests After PETA Push
Victory! In another leap toward stopping cruelty to animals abused in laboratories, QTrade Teas and Botanicals—the largest organic tea importer in North America—has agreed to ban all experiments on animals following talks with PETA.
PETA recently discovered that the company donated to a gruesome test in which experimenters used genetically modified mice born with a peanut allergy, force-fed them a peanut extract and toxin, and then bled them from their faces.
We alerted QTrade to this archaic experiment, and after meeting with our scientists, the company adopted a new animal testing policy, stating that it will not “conduct, fund, or commission testing on mice or other animals.”
QTrade is the latest business to end support for pointless experiments on animals after hearing from PETA, joining a long list of companies—including Oreo-maker Mondelēz International, Campbell Soup Company and others—that have made similar compassionate decisions.
What You Can Do
Please help us achieve more life-saving wins for animals killed in food experiments by urging Wegmans Food Markets to stop funding tests on animals and join PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program:
