Seems to be repeating what's already been said in the part
about moving the dog's from contract tester site.
"What’s going on with the dogs now?
After considerable pressure from PETA, Iams finally agreed to have the dogs from this particular laboratory removed. We’ve been informed by Iams officials that the dogs are now in an Iams facility in Dayton, which they have refused to let us see. We have no idea whether the dogs are in a better situation now than they were before. We are continuing to press Iams to let us see the facility and urging the company to adopt the dogs out to loving homes, but until we have a confirmation from Iams that this has happened, we will assume otherwise."
PETA has also contacted members of the Animal Advisory Board
and made some recommendations for changes in Company
policies & procedures regarding the use of lab animals in pet
food testing.
"So Iams’ International Animal Care Advisory Board is in a predicament. While it can evaluate Iams’ program of animal experimentation and make recommendations, nothing it can say or do (short of calling on Iams to stop experimenting on dogs and cats) will change this one simple fact: Iams’ use of animals in laboratories is inherently cruel and, for that matter, unnecessary. In addition, Iams as well as the members of this board have no way of knowing what is happening to the animals inside the company’s numerous contract testing facilities at any given time.
No person, organization, or corporation that truly cares about animals would ever condone or support the use of animals in pet food tests. This is why we have asked those individuals who sit on Iams’ International Animal Care Advisory Board to call on Iams to stop conducting nutritional experiments on cats and dogs and, instead, rely only on laboratory analysis of formulas for nutritional composition, in-home palatability studies using dogs and cats whose human companions have volunteered them for such tests, and collaborative studies with private veterinary clinics that have patients who have diseases or conditions of interest to the company.
We have sent each of the members of Iams’ International Animal Care Advisory Board a letter and videotape detailing the results of our investigation into the company’s use of animals in nutritional experiments and explained why we believe that the best advice one can give the company is to end its use of animals in laboratories. We will share with the public their responses and profiles in the near future. Thank you for your efforts in behalf of animals."
The story of Fifi & the other 15 dogs is mentioned here;
http://www.peta.org/feat/iams/iams-fifi.html
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