Lipton Tea Stops Testing On Animals
Written by Vegetarian Star on January 31st, 2011 in Animal Issues, Business, Food & Drink.
Activism works. And sometimes it works quite quickly.
Last month, we brought you the news about Lipton conducting animal tests with its teas in an effort to prove the beverage treated several ailments like high cholesterol and bowel issues. Unilever, the parent company of Lipton, has made the announcement it is no longer conducting these tests on animals, which included specifically breeding the animals to have certain medical conditions and purposely exposing them to toxins to see if Lipton tea would cure these conditions.
According to PETA’s blog, Unilever has announced, “Unilever is committing to no animal testing for our tea and tea-based beverages, with immediate effect.”
That’s sounds pretty sweet to us. As sweet as warm green tea with drops of agave nector or natural cane sugar stirred in.
Thousands of people in support of the ban sent emails to the company requesting the testing be stopped.
According to PETA, the following tea companies also do not conduct tests on animals:
- Stash Tea
- Luzianne Tea
- Twinings
- Honest Tea
- Ocean Spray
- Welch’s
- POM Wonderful
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January 31st, 2011 at 11:43 am
That’s great, but what about all the other products Unilever owns that it still tests on animals?
All I can say is boycott all Unilever products, including Lipton!
February 24th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Totally agree with Bridget! It’s great that Lipton products will no longer be tested on animals but until Unilever the company can stop all their animal testing, than I won’t be buying their products!
April 23rd, 2011 at 12:04 pm
The damage is already done, only liars and con-artists could torture innocent animals, for the purpose of fabricating falsities that their product is also medicinal. they were caught out before they were going to press with their lies for profit, F..k Unilever, nothing of theirs enters my life, nor ever will.