Banning Mars Bar this Halloween

What do M&M’s, Snickers and Twix have in common besides chocolate?

Deadly animal tests!

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According to PETA , the chocolate-maker Mars Inc. (a private company) funds deadly animal tests:

Mars has funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of paint. In another gruesome experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and then sedated with carbon dioxide so that blood could be collected through a needle that punctured their hearts!

Yick! Leave it to gossip site Jezebel to ask the tough questions:

And while we can understand animal testing for cancer, is animal testing for candy really necessary?

Looking for a way this Halloween to take the bad tricks out of the treat? Mars’ top competitor, Hershey’s (NYSE: HSY) pledged to PETA that it will not fund or conduct experiments on animals. Here’s how you can urge Mars to do the same.

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Nina blogs about money at Queercents.

Disclosure: I do not own stock in any chocolate companies, but I eat plenty. No more Mars for me.

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