Bem estava a escolher na net a nova ração do meu doggy quando me lembrei por curiosidade de inserir "pet food animal testing" no google...Deparei-me com uma realidade um tanto ou nada decepcionante e revoltante..AS principais marcas de ração, quase todas as mencionadas neste fórum, testam os seus produtos em animais!!! (hills,eukanuba,royal canin,techni cal,nutro,etc...
Forty-eight labrador retrievers were kept in a laboratory environment for fifteen years (unless death occurred sooner). The dogs had their food intake restricted for the first three years of the study, after which their diet was restricted still further until some animals were being fed just half the amount of food of their litter mates. Dogs were weighed weekly, x-rayed annually, had heart scans, ECGs and blood pressure taken. Once a year the dogs were starved overnight then injected with glucose, before blood samples were taken from their jugular vein five times in two hours. Body weight of feed-restricted dogs was on average 26% lower than the body weight of litter mates. Adult body weights for this group were as low as 22kg; the ideal body weight for Labrador retrievers is up to 34kg. Bem não custa nada darem uma olhada nestes sites
http://www.buav.org/campaigns/petfood/companies.html ;
http://www.iamscruelty.com/ ;
http://www.uncaged.co.uk/petfood.htm e a lista continua por aí fora..Ora pelo que eu pesquisei a única que se consegue arranjar em portugal e que não testa os seus produtos em animais é a Arden Grange (sem querer fazer publicidades) mas deppois de ler em vários sites, esta apareceu sempre como "non-testing"....Enfim....Acabei por comprar a Arden Grange
