The Giorgi Companies Bans All Experiments on Animals After PETA Push

Mushroom grower and food packer The Giorgi Companies, Inc.—owner of Giorgi Mushroom Company, Giorgio Foods, Inc., and Giorgio Fresh Co.—has cut off support for all animal testing and joined PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program. The move follows discussions with PETA scientists, who had discovered loopholes in the company’s animal testing policy that previously allowed it to provide support for experiments on animals—including tests in which experimenters used genetically-modified mice born with immunodeficiency and injected them with cancer cells, fed them mushroom extracts, and took their blood before killing and dissecting them.