Group's Resolution Calls On Company to Stop Cutting Open Pigs for Deadly Training Demonstrations
For Immediate
Release:
April 25, 2012
Contact:
Shakira Croce 202-483-7382
New Brunswick, N.J. -- "Pigs" stacked in crates, joined by PETA members holding signs that read, "J&J: Stop Cruel Animal Labs" and "Don't Cut Me Up," will protest outside the Hyatt Regency on Thursday as Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shareholders arrive for the company's annual meeting. Inside, a PETA representative will speak in support of a resolution submitted by a PETA supporter who owns stock in the company. The resolution calls on J&J to stop cutting into and killing healthy pigs and other animals for sales and training demonstrations and to use the superior, non-animal training methods already in use in some of the company's facilities consistently throughout all J&J divisions:
Date: Thursday, April 26
Time: 9 a.m.
Place: Hyatt Regency, 2 Albany St., New Brunswick
"Johnson & Johnson not only kills animals to train its sales staff, but hasn't even ensured that the modern non-animal simulators it does have are used consistently throughout the company," says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo. "Shareholders have the right to demand that Johnson & Johnson fulfill its ethical and fiscal responsibility to use only the most modern training available."
For more information, please visit PETA.org.