Bank’s Charitable Arm Violates Own Policy by Funding the March of Dimes

PETA has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the Bank of America Foundation (BOAF)—a nonprofit organization established by Bank of America—for funneling millions of dollars into the March of Dimes, a birth-defect charity that funds crude and cruel experiments on animals, despite the BOAF’s advertised policy against making such donations. PETA is asking the FTC to take action to stop the BOAF’s deceptive advertising—an apparent attempt to evade public criticism of this practice, reflecting the growing number of compassionate consumers who would refuse to do business with Bank of America if the BOAF openly admitted that the money was used for such purposes as to implant electrodes in the uteruses of pregnant monkeys and to sew cats’ eyelids shut. Because of a growing demand from health charity donors to have such information, PETA launched its "Guide to Compassionate Charities" in 1999.

The BOAF’s Web site states that "[n]ational health organizations (or their local affiliates) or research/disease advocacy groups," such as the March of Dimes, are ineligible for BOAF support.

To learn more about gruesome experiments on animals funded by the March of Dimes and to view PETA’s FTC complaint in its entirety, visit MarchofCrimes.com.


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