Splenda is the brand name for Sucralose and is made by Mcneil Speciality Products who are in turn owned by Johnson & Johnson.
In 2000 a series of reports were published by Permagon press detailing how thousands of animals had been experimented on at Huntingdon to test an artificial sweetener sucralose. These were particularly nasty experiments carried out on dogs, monkeys, rabbits, rats and mice.
One of the aims of the experiments was to see the effect on the central nervous system of the animals and in turn the animals were given massive doses of sucralose. Serious questions have been raised as to the safety of sucralose yet here it is widely available in many service stations, Pret a Manger and Starbucks to name a few outlets. We invite anyone reading this to enter sucralose or splenda into a Google search and read the detailed and widespread evidence on the dangers of sucralose.
In the Home Office's own guidelines primates are only to be used for 'serious' studies. These experiments amongst many others make a mockery of this. Animals died for what? Sugar.
We can all sleep safely in our beds at night knowing that kind people at Huntingdon Life Sciences are testing for our childrens' safety and for their future...oh and if you believe that you need your head examining.
This is inhalation toxicology. This is a promotional picture from a lab
infiltrated by SHAC and in this picture the dogs are only breathing fresh
air. The reality is very different, there are no people sitting between
the dogs comforting them, the animals would be breathing anything from
the fumes from burning foam to the vapours from aerosols and glues. The
animals would keep on breathing these fumes often until they pass out,
vomit or in numerous cases drop down dead in the slings.
Other useless experiments
conducted
at Huntingdon Life Sciences
Caramel
food colouring
In the May 1992 edition of Food Chemical Toxicology an experiment was
reported at Huntingdon that involved poisoning mice with Caramel at
"very high doses" in spite of the fact that caramel has been
on the market for many decades.
Starch
derivative
In 1994 Huntingdon tested cyclodextrin
which is a starch derivative. This was tested on dogs and rats for one
year. All the animals were killed at the end of this experiment.
Cigarettes
In an edition of the Toxicologist magazine
in 1998 it described how Huntingdon had tested nicotine on rats and
rabbits. Convulsions and tremors were recorded in both species.
In a toxicological magazine published in 1990 Huntingdon carried out tobacco experiments on rats. These were done by the particularly nasty method of Inhalation toxicology which means that the animals are forced to breath in the fumes like the ones pictured.
Cannabis
In a report published in 1999 called Marihuana (sic) and Medicine it
details an experiment carried out on 84 pregnant rabbits at Huntingdon
to test cannabis.
This experiment lasted one month and all the animals were killed whilst
still pregnant.
Musk
In 2000 Huntingdon published an experiment for three kinds of Musk which
is a perfume used in cleaning products, toiletries and perfumes. These
experiments were carried out on rats.
We have many more examples like these but these are amongst the most striking. Remember every drug that is withdrawn because of serious side effects, every pesticide that proves to be carcinogenic, every stupid 'new and improved' household product that we don't need, Huntingdon will have forced that product down the throats of thousands of animals and then passed it safe just for it later to go on to maim, harm and kill humans.