There Is NO Reason to Kill Animals in Blueberry Tests

In order to establish health claims used to market blueberries to consumers, the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council has paid experimenters to douche, poison, starve, suffocate, behead, and slice open animals in deadly tests.

Humans have safely eaten blueberries for thousands of years, and human clinical studies have already shown their nutritious health benefits. There is no reason to torment mice and rats in laboratories to study blueberries. Please take action on our urgent action alert now.

After you’ve taken action on our alert, visit the Blueberry Council’s social media pages. Comment on their posts and photos that there is no logical reason to fund cruel tests on animals when attempting to establish human health claims about this fruit.

Send a message to the organization using their online form. Feel free to use our talking points.

• Please adopt a public policy that bans the funding of all tests on animals. Results from animal experiments are overwhelmingly inaccurate because there are drastic physiological differences between humans and other species.
• The Hass Avocado Board, the National Mango Board, and the National Watermelon Promotion Board, as well as dozens of major food and beverage manufacturers, have already prohibited animal testing to establish human health claims for marketing products and ingredients.
• Mandatory assessment fees paid by farmers should not be used by the Blueberry Council to fund animal tests.

Call the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council to let them know that tests on animals are deadly and inhumane, inaccurate when studying the fruit’s health benefits for humans, and not required by law. Urge the board to immediately end all funding for tests on animals.