PETA has uncovered gruesome evidence that candy giant Mars has been paying experimenters to conduct deadly tests on mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits. We’re launching a worldwide boycott of Snickers, M&M’s, Twix, Milky Way, Starburst, Dove, Skittles, and other Mars-made products until the company has a heart and stops hurting animals.

Right now, Mars is funding a study at the University of California, San Francisco, in which experimenters force-feed rats by shoving plastic tubes down their throats. The animals are then killed and cut open.

Mars has also paid experimenters to do the following:

• *Force mice to swim in a pool of water and paint and find a hidden platform to avoid drowning—only to be killed later
  
• *Surgically attach plastic tubes to guinea pigs’ carotid arteries and inject cocoa ingredients into their jugular veins to induce dramatic decreases in blood pressure
  
• *Force rabbits to eat high-cholesterol diets with varying amounts of cocoa and then cut out and examine primary blood vessels to their hearts