PETA Calls Out Dyson for Doing Business with Retailer Tied to Grisly Animal Experiments
PETA Calls Out Dyson for Doing Business with Retailer Tied to Grisly Animal Experiments
Gloucestershire – Today, PETA UK sent a letter (available here) to British-based vacuum cleaner maker Sir James Dyson, urging him to cut ties with HKTVmall, a popular Hong Kong-based online shopping platform whose parent company funds gruesome experiments that involve removing the legs or heads of pigs and sheep while keeping them alive for hours.
Since 2022, Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited (HKTV) has funded dozens of experimenters overseas who torment pigs and sheep in “exploratory” experiments that offer “no assurance” of future clinical benefits to humans. HKTV funds these experiments in part by commissions and fees paid by HKTVmall merchants, such as Dyson.
“Experimenters funded by HKTV mutilate and remove body parts from pigs and sheep and then attempt to keep them alive for hours in horror film-style experiments,” says PETA Head of Science Policy Dr Julia Baines. “PETA calls on Sir James Dyson to ensure his company follows in the footsteps of other compassionate brands which refuse to work with HKTVmall.”
Pigs recognise their names and sleep together in “pig piles” with their closest friends, and sheep can remember 50 different faces and leap with excitement when they see their family. In HKTV-funded experiments, these thinking, feeling animals are hacked apart in terrifying tests and endure prolonged, likely agonising deaths.
Several companies have already left the platform over the experiments, including Lush Cosmetics’ Hong Kong subsidiary and Lush Asia Limited.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – points out that when it comes to the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a sheep is a dog is a boy. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.
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Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]
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