Posted May 28, 2011 by Rachelle Owen
Before taking your next sip of tea, check the label on the bottle because you may be drinking a cupful of cruelty to animals. Nestlé, the maker of Nestea, is testing and paying others to conduct painful and deadly tea tests on animals. The company has caused animals to suffer simply to investigate the possible health benefits linked to tea products and ingredients, even though not one of these experiments is legally required for beverage manufacturers, and regulators have stated that animal tests are not sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.
In these cruel tests, mice and rats were tormented and then killed by such means as decapitation. The following are some details of the horrors endured by the animals used in Nestea’s tea experiments:
Modern, cruelty-free research methods are available and are in use by other leading beverage companies around the world. We need YOU to join us in telling Nestea to ditch its cruel-tea to animals and to use non-animal methods instead.
Please take a moment to ask Nestea to stop testing on animals and join other brands—such as Lipton, Arizona, Snapple, Honest Tea, Tazo, Twinings, Stash Tea, Celestial Seasonings, Luzianne Tea, and others—that don’t experiment on animals.
Send polite comments to:
Paul Bulcke
CEO
Nestlé S.A.
Paul.Bulcke@nestle.com
Brad Alford
CEO
Nestlé USA
Brad.Alford@us.nestle.com
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305 days ago
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Done, thank you.
457 days ago
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I sent messages to both emails stating that there are numerous other successful tea brands that don’t force animals to suffer, and that I will not purchase their brand of iced tea until this cruelty ends.
489 days ago
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this is suck and wroung how would you like if we did this to you guys you would not the pain they go throw is sad so stop testing on animals
504 days ago
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Please stop testing on animals. Until you do, I will stop using your all Nestle related products and will encourage everyone I know to do the same. Thank you.
535 days ago
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I am boycotting Nestea and all their other products and pasting to my fb page to encourage others to do the same.
wolfbytez
541 days ago
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Why dont you decapitate your own mothers? … These animals have mothers too … a-holes.
552 days ago
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you suck nestle, first you kill some startving babies in africa, and now testing on animals shame on you, would have thought you may have learnt something but no, big corporation with small minded greed. wont be purchasing any products affiliated with nestle
554 days ago
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Dissapoint… -.-
613 days ago
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I’d buy Nestle stuff if it would quit!!!!!!!
614 days ago
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How can You do this? I live off d coke at least 5 a day no more. You should be put out of biz!
626 days ago
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this is completely wrong and cruel,how can they take life from innocent helpless creatures just like that >.<
640 days ago
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This the most horrible thing ever i wont drink nestea ever again that is a disappointment
655 days ago
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FUCK NESTEA
658 days ago
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Sir or Mam,
Would you please stop abusing animals for you laboratory studies? Simply stated – what you are doing is atrocious. I certainly will not be buying/supporting Neastea products anymore. I speak in behalf of a lot of peers men and women serving in the military, retirees, family and friends, “friends of friends”, and plenty of animal activist. Sir or mam, “Word of Mouth” is a powerful thing – please let us all be on the same side. Show us you/your company have learned about animals’ suffering and are working on and willing to putting an end to it.
Sincerely,
Ms. Asencio
Animals Reflections:
“To say nothing, to do nothing, stops nothing.”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judge by the way its
animals are treated.”
“I hold that the more helpless a creature , the more entitle it is to protection
by man from cruelty of man.”
“Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them?
Let us all feel the silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard
in the world.”
“The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?”
“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment for animals.”
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor
political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tell him that
it is right.”
“Cruelty has cursed the human family for countless ages. It is almost impossible
for one to be cruel to animals and kind to humans. If children are permitted to
be cruel to their pets and other animals, they can easily learn to get the same
pleasure from the misery of fellow humans. Such tendencies can easily lead to
crime.”
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something
I can do.”
“I looked at all the cages animals in the shelter…the cast-offs of human
society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and
betrayal. And I was angry. “God, “I said, this is terrible. Why don’t You do
something?” God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly. I have done
something, I created you.”
660 days ago
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That is SO sad! Peace Tea doesnt test on animals too and its delicious!
660 days ago
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I hope every Email like I did
668 days ago
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I will never drink Nestea ever again, And I will everyone I know Not to drink Nestea….
673 days ago
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I am done with all their products…..do us a favor and let us know what other brands they make profit from so we can never support them……
674 days ago
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Why would you do those things to animals? Test the tea on people…they’re the ones that drink it.
676 days ago
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Nestle, please stop testing your products on animals, please use the animal cruelty free methods which are used by your competitors.
677 days ago
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OMG I have a pet rat and I’m in tears right now. She is so sweet and awesome. How could anyone do such a thing. My heart is broken! I will never buy nestea products again!
677 days ago
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No wonder I never liked the stuff!!
680 days ago
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I have tried nestea once in my life and i found it to be totally gross…..i will never drink it again so….YAY go animals…NO Testing in the brand i drink…snapple and luzianne…
683 days ago
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F#!k you!!!
688 days ago
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Aww
mice are so cute!! and does this company seriously need to test tea?? thats just cruel!!! What is tea gunna do to people if they drink it? NOTHING! If they want their tea to be better, maybe they should test it on themselves, not innocent little mice!! This company is definetly hearing from me!!
689 days ago
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I an going to tell all my friends that drink this crap about this. This is disgusting!!
690 days ago
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quit testing on innocents, who cant speak up for themselves, what your doing is cruel, unethical and immoral. please stop!
690 days ago
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i love arizona
yay i dont even like nestea anyways:P
671 days ago
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I’m the exact same way @Crystal and I definitely don’t see how tea is supposed to stop a tortured and dying mouse from dying that wouldn’t even prove anything !
692 days ago
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I hope EVERYONE tells them what is on their mind! I know I did!!!!
692 days ago
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Why are you doing this? Testing breaks hearts!!!!!!! I’m never gonna buy from you ever again until you stop!!!!!!!!!! ;(
696 days ago
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Poor mice….
699 days ago
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i gladly let the ceo’s know that i boycott there products until they change there ways and then i will concider going back
699 days ago
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Repudien al te verde ,que elabora la EMPRESA NESTLE: by NESTEA,utilizan a los pobres animalitos en actos ABERRANTES DE TORTURA,LEA EL PAQUETE ANTES DE COMPRAR EL TE VERDE DE NESTEA O NESTLE ES LA MISMA EMPRESA QUE EXPERIMENTA CON ELLOS.
BOICOT .BASTA DE TORTURAS ANIMALES.