It’s fairly well known that animals are poisoned, blinded, and killed in outdated product tests for shampoos, household cleaners, cosmetics, hairspray, and other personal-care and household products—but would you have ever thought that animals were being tortured and killed to test juice? It’s true, and it’s a new low for an already atrocious animal-testing industry. * In one shocking experiment, a juice company paid researchers to cut open dogs’ chests, intentionally damage critical arteries in order to induce blood clots, and pump the animals full of grape juice. Afterward, they collected blood samples by “fresh puncture” of the dogs’ hearts to see the effect of grape juice on blood clots.
* One juice company funded an experiment in which researchers infected 120 mice with H. pylori, a bacterium that causes painful stomach ulcers.
* Another experiment paid for by a juice company involved forcing monkeys to breathe in massive amounts of cigarette smoke and consume purple grape juice to see if it would keep the tobacco from increasing the stickiness of blood cells.
