After discussions with PETA, DSM Nutritional Products—which manufactures ingredients used in nutritional supplements and personal-care products—has confirmed that it will no longer use the widely discredited forced swim test, in which small animals are placed in inescapable beakers filled with water and made to swim to keep from drowning. DSM previously subjected over 200 mice and rats to the debunked test in order to make dubious health claims about ingredients such as queen bee acid, DHA, and oregano extract.
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE
— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind