Category: Animal Experimentation
Alicia Silverstone Clues in Lab Workers
Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys. Employees at Brookhaven National Laboratory might have thought that their ears where playing tricks on them when they showed up at work… Read more »
Moving Chemical Testing Toward the 21st Century
If you’ve been holding your breath waiting for the day when rats are no longer shoved into tiny containers and forced to breathe chemicals for six hours a day for up to 90 days in order to test chemicals and products such as cigarettes, asbestos, popcorn butter flavoring, jet fuel, and household stain removers, you… Read more »
NASA Engineer Quits Over Monkey Experiment
pazzani / CC by 2.0 Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that NASA’s plan to fund an experimenter… Read more »
Mark Twain Would Be Proud
Mark Twain may be famous for his love of steamboats and jumping frogs, but some people may not be aware that he was also staunchly opposed to experiments on animals. He once wrote the following in a letter to the London Anti-Vivisection Society: “I believe I am not interested to know… Read more »
… And Guinea Pigs Aren’t Humans, Either
“I am not a guinea pig.” That’s the ironic name of the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) new campaign to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). I say “ironic” because, as the EDF itself points out in a blog post debuting the campaign, humans are not guinea pigs. And yet the very thing that EDF… Read more »
Humane Hijackers Take Over TWTRCON Feed
As NASA public affairs specialist Stephanie Schierholz took to the stage at Monday’s TWTRCON to weigh in on “customer service,” animal defenders elsewhere took to their Twitter accounts and took over the #TWTRCON hashtag—specifically weighing in on NASA’s plan to fund a misguided, cruel, and wasteful experiment in which dozens of squirrel monkeys would be… Read more »
European Space Agency Sides With Monkeys
Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys. The European Space Agency (ESA) is light years ahead of NASA in the compassion, technology, and common-sense departments. In a recent letter… Read more »
Selling Out Homeless Animals
Thanks to a recent undercover investigation in which PETA revealed that the University of Utah (the U) had bought more than 100 homeless animals from animal shelters and subjected them to invasive, painful, and deadly experiments, a law was passed so that shelters in Utah are no longer required to turn animals over to laboratories.… Read more »
Historic News in Sheep Case
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanvernon/ CC BY 2.0 It’s not often that we use the word “great” to describe anything involving vivisectors, but a recent development involving a petition filed by PETA and Madison-based Alliance for Animals against sheep experimenters at University of Wisconsin (UW)–Madison is just that: Circuit Court Judge Amy Smith has determined that nine individuals may… Read more »
The Star of the International Space Conference
Some people just can’t take a little bit of constructive criticism. Over the weekend, a PETA supporter took to the stage at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference to interrupt a speech by NASA administrator Charles Bolden. Today, we received a phone call from Gary Barnhard, executive director of the National Space Society,… Read more »
‘I’d Rather Be a Zombie Than a NASA Astronaut’
Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys. Who wouldn’t, right? Earlier this month, we asked our Twitter followers to let everyone know what they’d rather do than torment animals… Read more »
Are You Current on PETA Events?
This summer, I plan to exercise, read, and socialize, so I intend to focus my Web surfing and not get so lost in cyberspace. Enter PETA’s new Internet Explorer add-ons. By placing them in your Internet Explorer favorites bar, you can stay current on streaming PETA News and PETA Files updates—no Googling required.… Read more »
Anna Nicole Smith’s Outfit Auctioned
In another chapter straight out of “Don’t Let Death Stop You From Rocking the World for Animals,” a gorgeous outfit belonging to late model and passionate animal defender Anna Nicole Smith is going to be auctioned next month, with proceeds benefitting PETA! Which outfit, you may ask? None other than the one that graced Anna… Read more »
Baboons Fight Back
Update: In response to the complaint filed by PETA, the USDA cited Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research for two violations of the Animal Welfare Act. A worker at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio was hospitalized with cuts and scratches on Monday after he was attacked by two baboons. The primates… Read more »
Experimenters Turn a Smile Upside Down
A new study that will probably leave you grimacing in frustration finds that mice make facial expressions when they’re in pain. We certainly didn’t need any more evidence that these small animals are more than test tubes with whiskers and are capable of feeling pain and suffering. And it makes me wince to think about… Read more »
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