''Tea Tested on Animals? WTF?''

This is too much.. However, I didn't cry but tears blurred my vision.


If you're sipping Lipton, it was. The makers of Lipton tea have conducted (or paid others to conduct) painful, invasive tests on animals.  Here are some of the details:

• Rabbits were fed a high-fat diet and then given tea to see if it affected the plaque that had formed on the animals' arteries. After the experiment, the rabbits were decapitated.

• Mice were fed tea ingredients to see if they had any effect on bowel inflammation. After the test,experimenters killed the mice by suffocating them or breaking their necks.

• Rats were forced to eat a high-sugar diet, and then tea was given to the animals to see if it had an impact on their sugar-induced brain damage.

• Piglets were infected with E. coli toxin and then fed tea in order to see if the tea affected diarrhea. Experimenters cut the pigs' intestines apart while the animals were still alive.

None of these tests were required by law. In fact, regulators have stated that animal tests are not sufficient to prove a health claim about a product.