Mushroom grower and food packer The Giorgi Companies, Inc.—owner of Giorgi Mushroom Company, Giorgio Foods, Inc., and Giorgio Fresh Co.—has cut off support for all animal testing and joined PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program. The move follows discussions with PETA scientists, who had discovered loopholes in the company’s animal testing policy that previously allowed it … Read more »
Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine canceled its planned horse-killing laboratory, saving eight healthy and adoptable horses from death, after PETA supporters sent more than 36,000 emails as well as calls to school officials, joining the compassionate veterinarian group Our Honor in pleading to spare the horses. Just four days after we launched our … Read more »
ICL Performance Products— an Israel-based global specialty minerals company headquartered in St. Louis—has heeded PETA’s call to stop funding cruel experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute, which pays experimenters to conduct invasive and deadly tests on animals related to food and food ingredients. After hearing from PETA, the institute changed … Read more »
In a colossal breakthrough for monkeys and science, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) board of directors unanimously passed a resolution today authorizing negotiations with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to end experiments on monkeys and transition the federally funded Oregon National Primate Center to a sanctuary for the more than 5,000 monkeys … Read more »
Following collaborations with PETA scientists and other experts, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics published a document outlining how non-animal tests can—and should—be used to assess industrial chemicals for skin irritation. The document prioritizes the use of reliable and human-relevant non-animal methods over those that use live rabbits to assess … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Taiwan’s FDA, the government body responsible for regulating food safety, has updated its food safety rules for novel foods, prioritizing animal-free testing methods and allowing companies to use existing safety data of sufficiently similar ingredients instead of conducting cruel and pointless experiments on animals for the target ingredients. Historically, food safety … Read more »
In another leap toward stopping cruelty to animals abused in laboratories, QTrade Teas and Botanicals—the largest organic tea importer in North America—has agreed to ban all experiments on animals following talks with PETA. PETA discovered that the company donated to a test in which experimenters used genetically modified mice born with a peanut allergy, force-fed … Read more »
Following years of collaboration with PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its recommitment to ending tests on animals. PETA’s Managing Director of Regulatory Toxicology, Dr. Amy Clippinger, joined the EPA Administrator and spoke at the public announcement. This commitment to increase reliance on non-animal testing approaches echoes longstanding sentiments of the agency … Read more »
A paper co-authored by PETA scientists shows that human cell–based vaginal tissue models have the potential to replace rabbits when assessing the safety of personal lubricants. This non-animal method delivers data that is predictive of human health effects, reproducible across laboratories, and ranks personal lubricants by vaginal irritation potential.
Thanks to PETA’s donation of four advanced TraumaMan human-patient simulators, the practice of cutting open animals as part of learning how to treat life-threatening injuries in humans will no longer be part of Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) program. The TraumaMan models, which have arrived at Saudi Arabia’s ATLS National Office, are human … Read more »
Pressure from PETA supporters has once again saved animals’ lives around the world as the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced it will no longer recommend that companies conduct cruel experiments on animals to establish dubious claims about digestion for marketing food and beverage products sold in Taiwan. More than 25,000 PETA supporters … Read more »
Mondelēz International, the maker of Oreo cookies and other snack foods, has just closed loopholes in its animal testing policy after relentless campaigning from PETA and more than 63,000 supporters. After several meetings with PETA, the company has amended its public animal testing policy, which previously allowed myriad horrific and deadly experiments on animals, including … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spared 1,600 animals from deadly chemical tests after successfully applying a scientific approach created by the EPA, PETA scientists, and other experts. The adoption of a scientific approach co-developed by PETA scientists to replace rats and mice in cancer tests saves hundreds of animals every time it’s implemented. This … Read more »
In a landmark win for animals, Congress and the Trump Administration banned all live-fire trauma training on live animals throughout the Department of War in 2026, sparing thousands of animals from being shot, grievously wounded, and killed for outdated military training exercises. The ban—stipulated in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes this historic … Read more »
After years of persuasion, evidence sharing, and recent meetings with Food and Drug Administration officials, PETA scientists commended the agency’s proposal that recommends pharmaceutical developers no longer use primates, dogs, and pigs who are routinely killed in certain antibody tests to meet FDA requirements.
