Just weeks after PETA urged food and beverage giant Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., to stop force-feeding, poisoning, and killing rats, mice, and hamsters in order to make various questionable health claims about its products, the Tokyo-based company—along with its Korean subsidiary—pledged to end all such experiments on animals.
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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