Pamela Anderson Calling On Everyone to Get Naked
December, 052006
Pamela Anderson is putting the squeeze on juicemaker POM over the company's
refusal to halt cruel and unnecessary animal tests. To launch PETA's "POM
Horrible" campaign, the Baywatch babe posted a graphic video depicting
cruelty to animals in laboratories on her hugely popular Web site and
has asked her fans to join her and PETA in boycotting POM until the company
gives its written assurance that it has permanently stopped testing on
animals.
None of POM's experiments on animals is required by law. Even so, POM
has paid experimenters to kill untold numbers of animals in tests. In
one experiment, pregnant mice were fed POM juice, and their week-old babies
were locked in a chamber with almost no oxygen for 45 minutes, causing
severe brain damage; the babies were then killed so that experimenters
could dissect their brains. In another experiment, rabbits were fed POM
and had their arteries severed to study erectile dysfunction.
Other pomegranate juicemakers—including Naked, Old Orchard, and Frutzzo—do
not fund any experiments on animals. Says Pamela: "Considering
the cruel experiments on animals that POM is funding, I'm calling on everyone
to get Naked instead."
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