“The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an official complaint stating that the contract laboratory investigated by PETA in 2002 and 2003, which was employed by pet-food manufacturer Iams, “has shown a lack of good faith.”The government complaint alleges that the following violations, among others, were documented by government inspectors at the contract laboratory from 2002 to 2005:
- Failure to provide pain relief to sheep used in experiments that caused pain or distress
- Failure to ensure that personnel were trained to perform experiments on animals
- Failure to provide veterinary care and to observe animals daily
- Failure to properly ventilate housing facilities for dogs and cats
- Failure to house cats with a sufficient number of litterboxes and resting surfaces
- Failure to keep animal-housing facilities clean and in good repair, resulting in injuries
- Failure to maintain comfortable temperatures in animal-housing facilities
- Failure to provide animals with sufficient space”
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Yeah - I’m not a big fan of PETA AT ALL, but I have to admit that they got the IAMS animal cruelty thing right WAY before anyone else did.
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