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Help stop animals from being beaten, confined, and killed.

Animal abuse isn’t limited to slaughterhouses.

Around the world, bulls are forced to haul heavy loads while enduring painful restraints. Monkeys are chained and trained to pick coconuts. Chickens are crammed into filthy sheds. Civet cats are confined in cages so their waste can be turned into expensive coffee.

Animals are feeling, thinking individuals. Yet businesses continue to treat them as tools for profit.

Companies, governments, and institutions can help build food systems that respect animals instead of exploiting them.

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Bulls Are Pierced with Spikes for PepsiCo Sugar – Take Action Now

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Ramon Laguarta

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Dear {contact_data~title} {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName},

I was deeply disappointed to learn that PepsiCo uses sugar in India through franchisee partners from regions that force bulls to haul tons of sugarcane loads.

Bulls are intelligent, highly social animals. But in India’s sugarcane industry, they are treated like machines: forced to work from dawn until after dark, and often pushed beyond their physical abilities and legal limits.

They are beaten with sticks and whips, pierced with barbed wire spikes attached to their yokes, and restrained with nose ropes that tear and infect the nasal septa, causing agonizing pain. Many collapse from exhaustion – some are worked to death and left where they fall.

Humans in the industry face similar horrors. As the New York Times reported, workers who are reliant on bullock carts remain in poverty and face forced crushing debt, forced hysterectomies so that women do not miss days of work, and unsafe, inhumane living conditions.

There is a clear solution: eco-tractors. Unlike overloaded bullock carts that carry only a few tons, tractors can transport up to 18 tons at a time, benefiting both animals and workers.

Please commit to sourcing only bull-free sugar. Until you do, I will take my business elsewhere and encourage others to do the same.

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Choose vegan: Please, leave animals off your plate by choosing plant-based products. Not vegan yet? Take our 30-day Vegan Pledge.
Check coconut products: Look for brands that do not source coconuts from Thailand farms that use monkey labour.
Reject cruel kopi luwak coffee: Never buy or drink coffee produced by confining civet cats.
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