Group Calls On Company to Stop Cutting Open and Killing Pigs in Archaic Training Demonstrations
For Immediate Release:
April 27, 2011
Contact:
Robbyn Brooks 202-483-7382
New Brunswick, N.J. -- Holding signs that read, " Don't Cut Me Up," and "J&J: Stop Cruel Animal Labs," two costumed "pigs" will lead PETA members in a protest outside Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) annual meeting on Thursday. Inside the meeting, a PETA representative will present a resolution calling on J&J to end its use of pigs in deadly training demonstrations for sales representatives and others. J&J currently cuts into and kills healthy pigs in these demonstrations, even though superior non-animal alternatives are available and are already used for the same purpose in some divisions of the company.
When: Thursday, April 28, 9 a.m.
Where: Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, 2 Albany St., New Brunswick
"It is inexplicable that Johnson & Johnson would choose to use cruel, invasive, and demonstrably inferior training methods in one place and superior alternatives in another," says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo. "We're calling on Johnson & Johnson to put an immediate end to this needless animal suffering by incorporating modern simulation technology companywide."
A copy of PETA's shareholder resolution is available upon request. For more information, please visit PETA.org.