Category: Animal Experimentation
What Is Accused Monkey Smuggler’s Legal Team Trying to Hide From the Jury?
This trial could turn the greedy monkey experimentation industry upside down. Check out the latest updates on the federal government’s case against an alleged monkey smuggler.
Who’s Who in ‘The Failed Experiment’—Stream the Groundbreaking Docuseries Now FREE on YouTube
Meet the remarkable experts and animal rights advocates taking center stage in PETA’s new groundbreaking docuseries, “The Failed Experiment,” now available for free on YouTube.
Do Mice Get Motion Sickness? Plus Other Pointless Experiments on Animals
Do Froot Loops affect rats’ penis size? Here are more pointless, cruel, and absurd experiments conducted on animals.
On Trial: Cambodian Official Faces U.S. Charges of Monkey Smuggling
Details about exactly how and why endangered monkeys end up in U.S. laboratories has been exposed as testimony continued for a fifth day in a Cambodian monkey-smuggling trial.
PETA’s New International Women’s Day Video Calls Out OHSU for Pig Mutilation
PETA’s new video for International Women’s Day calls out Oregon Health & Science University for mutilating pigs in its OB/GYN training.
How Did the U.K. Just Toss a Life Raft to Mice and Rats?
© iStock.com/vadimrysevAfter relentless campaigning by PETA U.K., the U.K. government has made a change that will encourage scientists to focus on human-relevant research methods.
VIDEO: How PETA Found a Home for a Hound Exploited by a Blood Bank
The Veterinarians’ Blood Bank is under fire following a damning PETA undercover investigation. Discover Kolbie the dog’s rescue story.
Campaign Updates: Colossal Monkey Prison Proposed in Bainbridge, Georgia
Safer Human Medicine, a company created by former executives of animal experimentation companies, has proposed the largest monkey-breeding and -holding facility in the country, targeting land in Bainbridge, Georgia.
Why Editing Chickens’ Genes Is a Cockamamie Idea
Wait just a wing flap—scientists think messing with chicken genetics will hinder disease?! PETA’s got five reasons why that’s a no.
USDA Fines Washington Laboratory $5K for Animal Welfare Violations
Pigs, monkeys, and beagles are suffering at Altasciences. Find out what it did to get the feds’ attention and how to help animals now.
Empathy Over Experimentation: The Case Against the Term ‘Lab Rat’
© iStock.com/vadimrysevThe term “lab rat” only perpetuates speciesism and condones cruel experiments on animals. Let PETA increase your compassion for rats.
U.S. Tax Money Pays for Cruel, Deadly, and Fraudulent Foreign Animal Tests
PETA has found even more reasons to urge your legislators to act. Let’s save lives and stop the National Institutes of Health from using our tax money to fund foreign laboratories.
To Label or to Liberate: Why Animals Aren’t Numbers
You’re not a number—you’re someone. The same goes for every other animal. PETA adds up key reasons to stop labeling living, feeling beings.
INFOGRAPHIC: Beamish’s Life of Anguish in an NIH Laboratory
For this monkey, life has been nothing but terror and isolation. PETA’s new infographic reveals exactly how Beamish has suffered.
Monkeys Saved From Colombian Hellhole: CARGO Act Can Prevent More Abuse Abroad
Colombian experimenters exposed by a PETA investigation are paying for their crimes against animals. The CARGO Act can ensure that no more tax dollars go to animal tests abroad.
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind