Just weeks after PETA urged food and beverage giant Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., to stop force-feeding, poisoning, and killing rats, mice, and hamsters in order to make various questionable health claims about its products, the Tokyo-based company—along with its Korean subsidiary—pledged to end all such experiments on animals.
In a major collaborative effort with government and industry officials as well as academics, PETA scientists spearheaded a journal publication detailing ways to replace animals in inhalation tests. The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. co-authored the comprehensive report with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Dow Chemical Company, Syngenta, British American Tobacco, the University of … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. helped a multinational company appeal a testing requirement that would have meant poisoning pregnant rats or rabbits with high concentrations of a cosmetics ingredient and then killing them and their babies just before birth. The Science Consortium supported the company through the process and spoke out for animals at … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. announced the winner of its Early-Career Scientist Award, which aims to recognize young scientists’ work in animal-free science. Highly qualified applicants from around the world applied for the award, the winner of which will attend the Institute for In Vitro Sciences’ week-long workshop on non-animal testing methods. For his … Read more »
After PETA India’s footage from inspections of farms on which thousands of sick and malnourished horses, donkeys, and mules are used as living factories to produce antitoxins and antivenoms went public, we asked the Indian government to rescind those facilities’ licenses and to invest in non-animal antitoxin production. One facility has already been closed, and … Read more »
Animals are frequently used to test chemicals for skin irritation or corrosion, which means shaving the animals and then smearing chemicals onto their skin. In order to ensure that scientists have the information that they need in order to use non-animal methods, the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. launched a free, easy-to-use online training tool … Read more »
PETA India collaborated with the University of Delhi to organize a two-day symposium titled “Replacing Regulatory Experiments on Animals: An Introduction to In Silico Models and In Vitro Test Methods” in order to teach students about alternatives to animal testing. More than 70 people attended the event.
More than 185,000 of you demanded that St. Mary’s University in San Antonio put an end to Marshall McCue’s twisted starvation experiments, and your voices were heard. PETA received a letter from the school’s president confirming that these experiments have ended. This torture masquerading as “research” should never have been allowed in the first place, … Read more »
Scientists from PETA U.S., PETA U.K. and PETA Germany published an article in an important business journal detailing the ethical, scientific, and financial benefits of replacing animals used for drug and chemical testing with non-animal testing methods. See here.
PETA scientists presented at the 10th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences on issues as wide-ranging as replacing the use of animals in nanomaterial and pesticide testing, producing antitoxins in cells instead of horses, Texas A&M’s cruel and failed attempts to mimic human muscular dystrophy in dogs, and painful sepsis … Read more »
In a step forward for animals used for pesticide testing in India, the Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee has made several changes to a guidance document on pesticide registrations, such as providing criteria for waiving certain tests on animals and accepting non-animal testing methods. The move follows an appeal from and meetings with PETA … Read more »
Good Clean Love received PETA’s Compassionate Business Award for the company’s work with us to replace the use of rabbits and guinea pigs in painful experiments required by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. This success paves the way for all personal lubricant companies to avoid these animal tests. See here.
When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) attempted to circumvent requirements to reduce and replace animal use, PETA scientists pushed back, testifying in hearings, submitting official comments, and contacting various agency officials, and the EPA canceled its plans. See here.
