A nine-month investigation into the pet food giant reveals dogs and cats fed a steady diet of loneliness, suffering, and neglect in their laboratory cages.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an official complaint stating that the contract laboratory investigated by PETA in 2002 and 2003, which was employed by pet-food manufacturer Iams, %u201Chas shown a lack of good faith.%u201D The
government complaint alleges that the following violations, among others, were documented by government inspectors at the contract laboratory from 2002 to 2005:
- Failure to provide pain relief to sheep used in experiments that caused pain or distress
- Failure to ensure that personnel were trained to perform experiments on animals
- Failure to provide veterinary care and to observe animals daily
- Failure to properly ventilate housing facilities for dogs and cats
- Failure to house cats with a sufficient number of litterboxes and resting surfaces
- Failure to keep animal-housing facilities clean and in good repair, resulting in injuries
- Failure to maintain comfortable temperatures in animal-housing facilities
- Failure to provide animals with sufficient space
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