After hearing from PETA, a Brooklyn gallery quickly canceled plans to present a demonstration in which frogs would be cruelly injected with women’s urine and also given away to event attendees. PETA decried the needless suffering of the frogs involved and called for the gallery to abandon the demonstration. jfinnirwin|cc by 2.0 Lacking Compassion and … Read more »
Just six months after PETA announced that it had purchased stock in BIOQUAL—the company formerly known as “SEMA”—to urge it to phase out the use of chimpanzees in experiments, the Washington Post reports that the company is doing just that. BIOQUAL’s announcement comes 25 years after Jane Goodall called for the closure of SEMA after … Read more »
In response to a complaint filed by PETA in May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Air China for violating federal animal welfare laws. PETA’s filing stemmed from an incident in which a monkey being shipped to a laboratory escaped from his cage during an Air China passenger flight at New York’s JFK … Read more »
Update: As another indicator of the decline in the demand for its cruel services, just one month after Covance announced that it would be closing its animal-testing laboratory in Chandler, Arizona, the company has announced that it will also be laying off 50 employees at its facility in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of primates and … Read more »
UPDATE: After PETA asked supporters to contact El Al Airlines and urge the company to cancel this shipment, the airline received more than 10,000 e-mails and posts on its Facebook wall. El Al has now announced that it will not transport these 40 monkeys. Furthermore, El Al has confirmed that it will never again transport … Read more »
Don’t miss a thing: Follow PETA on Tumblr. PETA NEWS ON TUMBLR The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health held a contest to create the most eye-catching and informative packaging for its free condoms, and … well, let’s just say that eye-catching and informative are what PETA does best. Doctors say that the Atkins … Read more »
Don’t miss a thing: Follow PETA on Tumblr. PETA News on Tumblr There’s one thing that both Team Twilight and Team Hunger Games can agree on: Everyone should be on Team Tilly. Are rats smarter than your search engine? The answer may make you want to Google the “Hidden Lives of Rats.” New Jersey is … Read more »
We’ve told you before how cats and ferrets suffer in archaic training courses at Washington University in St. Louis. Now, we’ve obtained a photo of the miserable living conditions for a monkey named George, who is also confined to this facility: Information on who is experimenting on George was not released, but we wonder if … Read more »
Memorial Day is an occasion to remember all those who have died in the service of their country. Since the end of the draft, the U.S. has boasted about our all-volunteer armed forces. But not all those who have served have been volunteers—and many of our military casualties have worn fur or fins instead of … Read more »
PETA has been on pharmaceutical company Amgen‘s case for years over the company’s stubborn refusal to more actively implement alternatives to animal experiments, among other things. But we’re riding high this week after pulling a fast one at Amgen’s Tour of California Bike Race. Amgen sponsored the massive race and had its branding everywhere, but … Read more »
PETA protesters wearing monkey masks and holding signs reading, “Deplane Monkeys,” recently held demonstrations outside the Chicago headquarters of United Airlines and the U.S. headquarters of Air France in New York. PETA is urging the airlines to commit to a ban on shipping primates to laboratories, as almost every airline in the world already has, … Read more »
Pop the corks on those champagne bottles test tubes! After more than five years of discussions among PETA, the Intel Corporation, and the Society for Science & the Public (SSP) concerning cruel and deadly experiments on animals conducted by high school students participating in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair [http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/] (ISEF), the world’s … Read more »
Here is some of the hideous handiwork of April’s Vivisector of the Month, Janet Neisewander of Arizona State University, who has been conducting wasteful and cruel addiction experiments on animals since 1984. Using nearly $3 million in taxpayer money, Neisewander gets rats hooked on drugs like morphine, cocaine, and nicotine—sometimes after obliterating parts of the … Read more »
It shouldn’t happen to intelligent, sensitive cows, but it does: With holes cut into their sides, they are used as sideshow-like attractions to lure children and prospective students to university events and fundraisers. Distraught attendees at some of these recent events sent PETA these disturbing photographs: The cows are part of common experiments that involve … Read more »
