POM Wonderful pomegranate juices were pulled off the shelves by Wild Oats Markets in seven stores in Maine, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut after an animal rights group, in an act of terrorism, claimed they tampered with 487 bottles. POM says the claim was a hoax and that "So far we are not aware of any consumers who have become ill as a result of these purported actions." In response to questions about the situation Wild Oats spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele said that "as soon as we get test results that demonstrate that it has not been tampered with, we will reorder the product and have it back on our shelves. We want to make sure the product is safe before we continue selling it in stores that may have been targeted."
The claim was made in an anonymous letter posted on a website for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office and said that bottles "along the Eastern seaboard in stores like Wild Oats, D'Agostino and Food Emporiums" had been tampered with and that the "contaminated contents of the bottles would cause diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, but not death."
This isn't the first time that POM has become the target of animal rights terrorists, supposedly they are outraged because POM funds research on the medical benefits of pomegranate juice and part of that involves animals. To the terrorists all I have to say is Relax, you'll live longer. Expect POM to be back onto store shelves soon.
12-24-2006 @2:11PM Dave said... I think we should do all of our testing on animal rights activists instead of animals.
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1-27-2007 @6:20PM Jane samuels said... This is a very one sided post.
What the animal rights activists did was not particularly clever, but nor did it actually hurt anyone. The word terrorist is too easily and often connected to compassionate animal rights activists who have never done more than legally protest, and it's use is often irresponsible.In this case people got desperate and played a desperate hoax, nothing compared to the poor behaviour of the juice company itself.
For a juice company to induce pain and fear in any living creature, simply to aid the marketing of their drink is a far more extreame, and downright unplesant act.
supporting that company, when theres plenty of other fine juices out there who do not feel the need to cause undue surffering to innocent creatures, is even lower.
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