Anna Nicole Smith Dogs Pet-Food Maker Iams Over Deadly Experiments
(Editor's note: Now there's a heavyweight endorsement from a reliable source)

Anna Nicole Smith is fed up with pet-food maker Iams over its cruel and deadly experiments on dogs and cats, and in a new ad for PETA, she poses with her three pampered pooches and declares, “Marilyn, Sugar Pie, and Puppy are boycotting Iams until it stops testing on animals in labs.” (Editor's note: I'm sure she experienced this first hand - while she was clean and sober?)

Why is Anna Nicole fed up with Iams? (Editor's note: Because somebody at PETA told her she should be? This is a woman who hasn't exactly proven herself to be an intellectual giant) A PETA undercover investigation revealed deplorable conditions at an Iams contract animal-testing laboratory. At least 27 dogs were killed while others died of illnesses that went untreated, despite assurances from Iams that no animal in any Iams test would ever be deliberately killed. PETA’s investigator found the following:

• Dogs and cats confined to small, barren cages, some for up to six years
• Dogs’ vocal cords surgically cut out so that they couldn’t bark
• Workers’ reports of a live kitten who was washed down a drain
• Kennels that were extremely hot in the summer and near freezing in the winter
• Dogs being force-fed vegetable oil through tubes inserted down their throats

“For the love of dogs, boycott Iams!” declares Anna Nicole. “These tests are not required by law, and animals shouldn’t live in squalor and misery for the sake of Iams’ profits.” (Editor's note: Anna Nicole Smith - another in a long line of reliable spokespeople for PETA including the redoubtable Pamela Anderson and the lettuce ladies. Does PETA's management have some kind of sexual hangup? Ya think?)