The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. cohosted workshops and webinar series to develop replacements to using animals in inhalation toxicity testing and awarded $400,000 worth of in vitro inhalation exposure equipment to four international laboratories. See here.
Working with the company Good Clean Love, PETA persuaded the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to accept results from simple non-invasive skin tests on human volunteers instead of requiring that rabbits and guinea pigs be injected with personal lubricants. This precedent-setting ruling not only spared the lives of the specific animals who would have been … Read more »
May 18, 2017 Just weeks after PETA contacted House Foods to ask it to stop conducting experiments on animals, the company ended its long-standing practice of force-feeding mice and injecting them with chemicals in order to make health claims about its products. House Foods’ animal tests date back to 1996.
May 18, 2017 Following pressure from PETA and U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the U.S. Coast Guard has become the first branch of the military to suspend the shooting, stabbing, and killing of animals in trauma training drills while it studies available human simulators and other non-animal training methods that could be used instead. The … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. organizes and funds training sessions for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on an internationally used software program that incorporates computer models (funded in part by PETA) to predict chemical hazards without using animals. See here.
March 21, 2017 Animals and members of the military in Virginia are safer since John Hagmann—the sexual predator and twisted mind behind the military’s cruel trauma training program, in which thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, and killed each year—will not be allowed to reinstate his medical license. Two years ago, the Virginia … Read more »
March 2, 2017 Nearly two years ago, the Kentucky attorney general ruled against the University of Kentucky, confirming that the school violated a state open-records law by refusing to release records related to the use of animals in classroom experiments that PETA had requested. The university fought back and appealed the attorney general’s decision, but … Read more »
February 8, 2017 PETA pressed, and we got results: Multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical and medical-device maker Sanofi has committed to not killing animals anymore in training sessions for sales personnel. This comes after PETA uncovered evidence that the company was using live animals to demonstrate invasive medical-device procedures for sales representatives.
In a special issue of Applied In Vitro Toxicology, PETA scientists published information on avoiding animal tests for “next-generation” tobacco products, such as e-cigarettes, and our piece caught the attention of the editors of Chemical & Engineering News, a high-impact trade publication, which featured the comments. See here.
January 31, 2017 We’ve stopped the stabbing and shooting of animals in yet another area of Army training! Thanks to pressure from PETA and thousands of concerned supporters who e-mailed Congress and the Department of Defense, when combat medics take career advancement training, they’ll have access to superior human-patient simulators and other non-animal training methods—saving … Read more »
The award-winning IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine profiled PETA’s vice president and director for regulatory testing, putting good science and animal rights in the spotlight. The magazine, which recognizes women with successful careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, is published by the largest engineering organization in the world. See here.
