Mars Inc.(The Owner of Starburt/M&M's etc.) Candy Company Tests Their Candy on Animals

You missed the point...There is no correlation between cats/dogs reaction and ours so testing something on them will not yield the same results as it would on a person.

Chocolate is not the same as insect spray.No not all things that are harmful to pets are harmful to humans and vice versa.Here are some prime examples for you..http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-stop.html Wow, where do you get your ethics from? So if we have plenty of orphans that no one wants, they should just be tortured?!

Based? Well if you read the article I posted previously or knew anything about animal testing you would know that testing products on animals won't save your childs life or any other humans for that matter.

The reason there are so many dogs and cats who are unwanted is because stupid people buy them directly or indirectly from breeders, and then don't spay or neuter them! Then, if they're forced to move, or they just get bored with the animal, they abandon the poor thing. So the breeding - and inbreeding - goes on and on and on. And that's why I'm an advocate of TNR for feral and stray cats.

I'm not sure that I am "claiming that all animal testing is just because scientists are sadistic monsters who like to see animals suffer", but rather that the scientists who who use these methods in order to get results to their experiments are stuck in their old ways of thinking. There was a time when we didn't have computer models,quantum pharmacology,in vitro tests ,human stem cells, etc., but now that we do it is most commonly known that these practices work much better than animal testing.Animal tests are primitive, and modern technology and human clinical tests are much more effective and reliable.Human clinical and epidemiological studies, studies on cadavers, and computer simulations are faster, more reliable, less expensive, and more humane than animal tests. Ingenious scientists have used human brain cells to develop a model “microbrain” that can be used to study tumors and have also come up with artificial skin and bone marrow. Instead of killing animals, we can now test irritancy on egg membranes, produce vaccines from cell cultures, and perform pregnancy tests using blood samples. As Gordon Baxter, cofounder of Pharmagene Laboratories, a company that uses only human tissue and computers to develop and test its drugs,says, “If you have information on human genes, what’s the point of going back to animals?”

Also, A painless death at an animal shelter is a far cry from a life of severe pain and deprivation and an agonizing death in a laboratory.

they shouldn't get chocolate because one of the main components is theobromine, toxic to most non-primates.

Yes...I posted an article previously(up above) that talks about theobromine.

http://www.essortment.com/all/dogschocolate_rcbr.htm

Dogs and puppies do not have the ability as we humans do to digest a simple chemical found in chocolate called "THEOBROMINE". When theobromine is ingested by an animal it affects are horrific on the central nervous system and the cardiovascular system. This effect of the chemical has a very harsh effect on the animal’s body causing severe trauma and oftentimes death.