‘Rabbits’ to Plead for Their Lives Outside Ajinomoto Headquarters Ahead of Lunar New Year

What:       To honour the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, PETA’s giant masked “bunnies” will brandish signs demanding, “Ajinomoto: Stop Animal Testing,” outside the Malaysia headquarters of Japanese conglomerate Ajinomoto Co Inc – the world’s largest manufacturer of the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG) – to protest the company’s deadly testing on rabbits, dogs, pigs, and other animals.  

“Ajinomoto tortures sensitive rabbits and thousands of other animals, who feel pain just as we do, to make dubious human health claims for marketing foods and beverages,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA calls on Ajinomoto to join the growing industry movement to ban crude and failed animal tests and instead use modern, animal-free methods.” 

PETA points out that Ajinomoto experimenters have injected rabbits with viruses and then killed and dissected them, starved dogs except for feeding them MSG and cut open their stomachs, inserted tubes into day-old piglets’ arteries and starved them, and electroshocked rats, among other cruel procedures. 

Where:     Lot L1-E-5A and L1-E-5B, Enterprise 4, Technology Park Malaysia, Lebuhraya Puchong, Sg Besi, Bukit Jalil 57000, Kuala Lumpur (See Google Maps link here.)  

When:      Friday January 20^th, 12 noon sharp 

 Your coverage is invited. 

 PETA Asia—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.  

 For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. 

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