Catpaw - diary of an angry cat

I think the world has lost its last link with reality… no seriously… humanity has just slithered down the pipeline of insanity.

Read the following excerpt from Coca Cola and PepsiCo Agree to Curb Animal Tests published last spring:

In January, Roll International, the company that makes Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice, agreed to cease tests on animals after PETA disclosed a 2005 study financed by the company that tested the juice to see if it might relieve artificially induced erectile dysfunction in rabbits.

By BRENDA GOODMAN
May 31, 2007
New York Times

 

Let me get this straight. Pom Wonderful Juice made a bunch of boy rabbits very unhappy. The scientists somehow inflicted the horrors of erectile dysfunction on them - guess they’ve never heard of Viagra. Then they fed them Pom juice to see if it would relieve this artificially induced condition so the company could slap a dubious label on the bottles claiming Pom is so wonderful it can cure a bunny’s impotence thereby allowing them to make a claim it can do so in humans, then selling it to the masses as a miracle drink - better than the aforementioned Viagra and a bit cheaper.

First off, last time I checked, rabbits never need Viagra of any kind. If the idiots would stop feeding saltpeter to the bunnies, the problem would be solved.

Second, this type of “let’s create a problem” and then market some jackass solution just pisses me off. The world is filled with insincere claims about the wonders of this additive, that drink, this drug, that food and the masses keep sucking it up. Wait a few months and the marketing geniuses will be touting the exact opposite.

Third, why were beverage companies testing on animals? Did we really need to test Coke and Pepsi on Chimps? Aren’t there enough human apes out in the wild they can study? Was the world made a better place by making a room full of bunnies impotent.

Want to be more outraged? Nutrasweet, funded a study “that cut open the faces of chimpanzees to study nerve impulses used in the perception of sweet tastes.” All so humans can have their ultra sweet junk food and feel smug about it. “Look I can have my hamburger lathered in mayo and other fixins because I’m having a diet drink so I won’t gain weight”.

This is marketing gone mad. Such studies have nothing to do with science and research. I don’t give a fig about any such claims that it furthers our understanding of [insert idea]. These tests were conducted to sell more products and enhance the bottom line for the stock holders, not to improve humanity’s lot.

If you want to improve humanity’s lot, take some of the money used in this type of specious research and marketing and build a well for a village in Africa, buy a cow for a family in need, purchase a herd of goats, help build a school, send books ….

Catpaw is annoyed and going to stay that way.

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