The Oregon Legislature passed a measure requiring that the Oregon National Primate Research Center provide a plan to close by 2026 if it receives or uses any state money, or if the National Institutes of Health slashes its funding by 25%. This marks the first time lawmakers have conditioned the primate center in the state’s … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and over 40,000 supporters, Carnival Corporation no longer offers excursions to facilities that exploit elephants for riding, bathing, feeding, or other direct-contact activities. This decision will apply across Carnival Corporation’s brands, including Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises, Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises, and Cunard. … Read more »
Colorado passed a law in 2021 making it illegal for circuses and other abusive traveling acts to bring exotic animals into the state. However, the Colorado Renaissance Festival hosted the notorious elephant exhibitor Trunks & Humps, under the guise of “education,” for several seasons following the passage of the law. That came to an end … Read more »
Eurofins, Jones Dairy Farm, and Kerry Group are the latest companies to restrict funding of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute away from animal testing, joining a dozen other corporate sponsors that have done the same or pulled funds entirely for the institute’s gruesome tests on animals after hearing from PETA. The institute had … Read more »
For months, PETA pushed for the Colorado Department of Agriculture to require facilities licensed under the Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act to house snakes in enclosures that provide at least enough space for the snakes to fully extend. PETA’s joint petition for rulemaking with the Colorado Reptile Humane Society launched the effort, which culminated … Read more »
Following two and a half years of sustained pressure from PETA, including advertisements, complaints to federal authorities, critiques from primatologists, scientists, and legal scholars, and 700,000 emails from supporters, federal funding for Margaret Livingstone’s infant monkey laboratory has been cancelled, ending decades of monkey torment. PETA first exposed Harvard’s monkey experiments in the fall of … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded a travel grant to a PhD candidate at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment to attend the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science. At the summer school, the winner had the opportunity to learn about non-animal tests that can … Read more »
A paper, concluding a series of papers co-authored by PETA scientists on eye irritation testing for chemicals at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, details additional methods for testing pesticides without using live rabbits. In addition to PETA scientists, the paper’s co-authors include representatives from a government agency, a non-animal testing laboratory, and others.
Following numerous complaints filed by PETA over rampant violations of animal welfare laws at West Coast Game Park Safari, a roadside zoo in Bandon, Oregon, law enforcement officials executed multiple search warrants and removed over 300 animals from the decrepit facility, who were transferred to reputable and accredited facilities, including George, the last solitary chimpanzee … Read more »
Thanks to sponsorships from PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and Colgate-Palmolive, six dedicated scientists traveled from India to the U.S. for state-of-the-art training on how to test chemicals for toxic effects without using animals. To date, the Science Consortium has sponsored more than 40 scientists to attend this training program run by a prestigious non-animal … Read more »
After hearing from PETA about the suffering of elephants forced to bathe with humans in Thailand, Discover Corps, Journeys International, and Project Expedition dropped all elephant bathing experiences from their booking sites. They join more than 50 companies that do not offer elephant riding or bathing. Tourists should avoid all sham elephant sanctuaries that offer … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Marriott agreed to stop selling camel and horse rides at the Giza Pyramids in Egypt. The company joins more than 50 others around the globe—including Airbnb, Abercrombie & Kent Travel Group, British Airways Holidays, easyJet holidays, Exodus Adventure Travels, Grand Circle Corporation, Scott Dunn, and TCS World Travel—that have confirmed they … Read more »
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has declared a fundamental change in its funding, away from cruel and outdated experiments on animals and shifting both money and focus toward non-animal research methods—a move that PETA has called on it to do for years. In its announcement, NIH has adopted several recommendations from Research Modernization NOW—our … Read more »
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) finalized a regulation that removes animal testing as an option for companies wanting to make human bone health claims for marketing their food and beverage products. The testing included cutting out the ovaries of mice, rats, or hamsters and feeding them a calcium-deficient diet to induce osteoporosis, feeding … Read more »
In another win for PETA, the U.S. District Court for the Western District dealt a massive blow to the University of Washington animal experimentation oversight committee—whose members attempted to evade basic public oversight by keeping their identities secret—handing down a decision that removes any legal barrier to PETA and Northwest Animal Rights Network receiving records that would … Read more »
