Coke and Pepsi agree to stop testing products on animals.Coke and Pepsi agree to stop testing products on animals: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have agreed to stop directly financing research that uses animals to test or develop their products, except where such testing is required by law. PepsiCo said that despite the fact that the company had never supported the idea of animal testing Animal testing or animal research refers to the use of animals in experiments. It is estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals worldwide [4][5][6] , it had not previously been policing it. The soft drinks giant has said that it now plans to stop financing animal experiments, including some it had financed through grants given to graduate students through its Gatorade Sports Science Sports science is a discipline that studies the application of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sporting performance. Human movement is a related scientific discipline that studies human movement in all contexts including that of sport. Institute. Coca-Cola also added that it would discontinue a grant given to a researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University Formed by a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968, VCU has a medical school that is home to the nation's oldest organ transplant program. who has been studying taste perception in rats, which share certain taste pathways with humans. The two soft drink giants are the latest companies to respond to scrutiny by PETA Quadrillion (10 to the 15th power). See space/time. , which has mounted a campaign to denounce de·nounce tr.v. de·nounced, de·nounc·ing, de·nounc·es 1. To condemn openly as being evil or reprehensible. See Synonyms at criticize. 2. To accuse formally. 3. animal testing practices in the beverage industry, an industry that, unlike cosmetics or pharmaceuticals, had largely been unpublicized in the animal testing arena. |
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