Berocca

[Bounce]

I can't find much stuff on Berocca...

So far as I know, the soluble tablets are vegan, but I have been trying to find if the company itself is quite a bad one, if they research on non human animals, or hurt human animals...

Does anyone know?

[muchluv]

Yes, Bayer do test on animals, and yes Berocca, like any other medicine like it, will have been tested on animals. They're a large Pharmaceutical company and will test like any other.

If you trace Bayer back, IG Farben-Bayer created the gas that killed the jews in the holocaust, and I have also heard 'bought' jews to test other things on.

[muchluv]

Have a look on wikipedia for Bayer, then at their controversies. I have to say, theirs is long. Many, most, ALL?! companies have some kind of dark side, and when it comes to Pharmaceutical companies, it gets a lot worse. But even compared to others Bayer probably stands out as being really bad.

Although this has nothing to do with me trying to stop you from taking berocca! lol.

I just don't like pharmaceutical companies. They are, after all, companies, and companies make money. If a pharmaceutical company could make 100 pounds a year from a drug, or sell a one of cure for 50, which are they going to do? It's not really in their benefit to actually cure people, rather make them partially better to keep selling the drug.

Sorry, I'm ranting. . I'm tempted to edit that last bit out because its irrelevant and depressing but I'll leave it in.

I assume from what you're saying, that maybe you are considering whether or not to buy it. It's so frustrating, isn't it? So many companies have their hand in animal testing somewhere, and if not animal testing, something other than it that's nasty .

LOL just read they discovered heroin, so we have that to thank them for, too

[thestoatyone]

The sainsburys berroca style disolvable vit B things are labelled as vegan. Don't know where they come from, and I guess it ain't exactly saintly, but an alternative non-the-less.

[powerlifer]

Im not fond of synthetic vitamins anyway unless you cant get from a natural source.

I prefer nutritive herbs such as nettle, alfalfa and other superfood powders over synthetic vitamins.

[thestoatyone]

Well yeah food first and all that. I just neck one once a week to cover my B12 needs. Do not diss me on this or I'll set Ava on you

[powerlifer]

[quote="thestoatyone"]Well yeah food first and all that. I just neck one once a week to cover my B12 needs. Do not diss me on this or I'll set Ava on you

[Hiking Fox]

There's no such thing as synthetic B12, according to Ava. It is produced by bacteria grown under controlled conditions, rather than bacteria you find in random amounts in animal shit.

[Gelert]

[quote="Hiking Fox"]There's no such thing as synthetic B12, according to Ava. It is produced by bacteria grown under controlled conditions, rather than bacteria you find in random amounts in animal shit.

[ska face]

Bayer also makes Redoxon fizzy Vitamin C and Zinc which is labelled suitable for vegans on the packaging.