The PETA International Science Consortium presented its Early-Career Scientist Award at an international conference to a toxicologist developing a 3-dimensional model of the human liver to replace the use of rats in liver-toxicity testing. And a researcher from Argentina won this year’s award to attend a prestigious toxicology workshop where she’ll receive training to help her establish the first laboratory in her country dedicated to promoting non-animal tests.
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE
— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind