Category: Animal Experimentation
Vivisectors: Saying ‘No’ Doesn’t Cut It
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 PETA’s savvy legal team never stops uncovering new ways to expose the ugly business of vivisection. The Wall Street Journal, The Scientist, Nature Medicine, and an ABC News affiliate have all recently done pieces about our innovative approach to exposing the torment that animals are forced to endure in laboratories.… Read more »
These Experiments Really Suck
From the annals of “asinine things vivisectors do” comes a proposed experiment that might make you want to curl up in a fetal position with your blankie. The National Toxicology Program (NTP) wants to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on new animal testing of soy infant formula in order to explain adverse effects seen in… Read more »
Aliens Want You
We have met the enemy and the enemy is … E.T.? At least, that’s what astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says. He warns that extraterrestrials could be like … well, like humans, who never seem to have met an “alien” life form that they didn’t want to capture, enslave, experiment on, or even eat alive. Inspired by… Read more »
Apple’s Animal-Friendliest Apps
© Robert Sebree When it comes to all things animal-friendly, as they say, “There’s an app for that.” PETA’s new “Be Nice to Bunnies” iPhone app featuring sexy Stephanie Pratt is the essential guide for cruelty-free shoppers. And there are oodles of other apps out there to help us with everything from finding a tasty… Read more »
The First Animal Rights Poem?
Picture this: It’s 1773 and the young poet Anna Barbauld is working as an assistant in the laboratory of vivisector Joseph Priestley. In order to study breathing, Priestley tormented live mice, and he did it without giving them any anesthetic (as vivisectors today still do in many cases). Aaron Logan / CC by 1.0 One… Read more »
USDA Cites University of Utah for AWA Violations
This just in: In response to PETA’s undercover investigation of animal experiments at the University of Utah (the U) and the complaint that we filed with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U has been cited for nine violations of federal animal protection laws, including the following: Causing a kitten to die from dehydration Keeping… Read more »
Tweet This, NASA
Julielangford / CC by 3.0 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. It’s World Week for Animals in Laboratories—do you know where your tweets are? Hopefully, they will soon… Read more »
Stephanie Pratt’s Racy Ad? There’s an App for That!
Stephanie Pratt, star of MTV’s The Hills, bared her own buns for the cover of PETA’s new “Be Nice to Bunnies” iPhone app, a searchable database designed by Hot Frog Creative that makes it a snap for shoppers to find cruelty-free products while they’re on the go. The racy cover was deemed too risqué by… Read more »
Guess Who Was America’s First Famous Animal Advocate
“Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out.” —Mark Twain Italy had Leonardo da Vinci, India had Mahatma Gandhi, England had William Wilberforce, and the U.S. had Mark Twain. Like these other luminaries, Twain was a committed advocate for the humane treatment of animals,… Read more »
New EPA Bill on the Right Track, Needs More Work
AlexK100 / CC by 2.0 The long-awaited Senate and House versions of the new Toxic Substances Control Act—which is intended to improve the way that hazardous substances are tested and regulated in the U.S.—have just been released. PETA’s Regulatory Testing Division has been working tirelessly for years to make sure that animal testing is minimized… Read more »
Victory: Lufthansa Stops Shipping Dogs and Cats to Laboratories
Wow, that was fast! Less than a day after PETA released heartbreaking photos and posted an action alert on our Web site drawing attention to the plight of more than 50 dogs who were transported on a Lufthansa cargo plane from the U.S. to a notorious Charles River Laboratories animal testing facility in Scotland, Lufthansa… Read more »
Meth-Addled Sheep Shocked With Tasers
Can’t sheep get a break? First, we told you that PETA and Madison, Wisconsin’s Alliance for Animals petitioned for prosecution after experimenters at the University of Wisconsin–Madison killed sheep in excruciating U.S. Navy–funded decompression experiments. (Killing animals by decompression is specifically prohibited by Wisconsin’s Crimes Against Animals law.) Now we’ve learned that 16 sheep were… Read more »
PETA Sues UW-Madison for Allegedly Violating Public Records Law
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fugue/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 Yesterday, PETA filed a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW) for alleged violations of the Wisconsin Public Records Law. UW has refused to provide PETA with information related to the university’s invasive and deadly taxpayer-funded eye-movement experiments on monkeys and cats. UW completely denied PETA access to some records,… Read more »
Victory! Utah Animal Shelter Abandons Pound Seizure
On March 27, Utah’s governor signed a bill to amend an archaic state law so that government-run animal shelters will no longer be forced upon request to sell homeless dogs and cats to laboratories for use in cruel and deadly experiments. Yesterday, the director of Davis County Animal Services—the shelter that was supplying the University… Read more »
Genetically Engineered Rats: 100 Percent Fake!
Happy (belated) April Fool’s, folks! If you were to pick out one of our blogs from yesterday and label it a fantasy, which would you pick? Sure, McDonald’s basketball seems made up, but it turns out that we do not support genetically engineering rats. But judging from the comments on the first blog about our… Read more »
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