Ferrero International and Agropur Ban Animal Testing After PETA Outreach

Global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA. The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any animal testing for any purpose, unless explicitly required by law.” Before joining PETA’s program, a Ferrero subsidiary paid experimenters to force-feed mice cholesterol substances and then kill them. Agropur paid experimenters to force-feed mice sugar, fat, and probiotics before puncturing their hearts to kill them. Agropur also donated its products to experimenters who fed rats a high-fat diet to cause obesity, sugar intolerance, hypertension, and stroke; fed them dairy proteins, starved them, and jammed catheters into their intestines and veins.