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 »
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 »
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the Department of War in 2026, sparing thousands of animals from being shot, grievously wounded, and killed for outdated military training exercises.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 »
In a seismic win for animals and science, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that it will phase out cruel experiments on monkeys in its laboratory—a long-overdue move that PETA has fought for relentlessly and follows our discussion with the Department of Health and Human Services. PETA thanks the administration for … Read more »
In a significant win for animals, Wisconsin-based Fromm Family Foods—a companion animal food company—has heeded PETA’s call to stop funding cruel experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute, joining numerous other corporate sponsors that have done the same or pulled funds entirely for the institute’s gruesome tests on animals after hearing … Read more »
The Health Effects Institute, which studies the effects of air pollution and is largely funded by the global automotive industry and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, confirmed to PETA that it has no plans to fund experiments on animals for the foreseeable future. The decision comes after PETA first contacted the institute in 2023, urging … Read more »
Thanks in part to funding provided by PETA Science Consortium International e.V., biology students at Technische Universität Berlin ditched fetal bovine serum and antibodies bled from animals in favor of cutting-edge, cruelty-free science. The team running this laboratory has published a paper that will help other universities adopt this graduate-level course, enabling even more students … Read more »
At international toxicology conferences around the world, PETA scientists made their mark among thousands of attendees, promoting state-of-the-art testing methods. Amongst an audience of government regulators, scientific experts, and budding young professionals, they gave 15 presentations and co-chaired 7 sessions, sharing groundbreaking developments in non-animal toxicity testing. With decades of experience amongst the team, PETA … Read more »
Jeneil Biotech—a Wisconsin-headquartered biotechnology company that makes natural flavors and fermentation-derived ingredients—has heeded PETA’s call to stop funding cruel experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute. Jeneil joins PepsiCo, Inc., Campbell Soup Company, and numerous other sponsors that have either directed their donations to the animal-free fund or cut off sponsorship … Read more »
In yet another legal win for PETA and public accountability, members of the University of Washington animal oversight committee will no longer hide their identities by using only their initials. The Washington State Attorney General’s office informed PETA that, rather than face Open Public Meetings Act litigation, committee members’ full names will now appear in … Read more »
After a relentless PETA campaign, the University of Massachusetts—Amherst marmoset laboratory of Agnès Lacreuse has closed, ending more than ten years of cruel and deadly experiments on marmosets. Local advocates with Western Massachusetts Animal Rights Advocates and Compassionate Alliance for Nonhumans helped keep the pressure on. In addition to ads, protests, disruptions, celebrity letters, and … Read more »
Health Canada released a strategy prioritizing the use of non-animal tests to protect humans and the environment from chemicals. PETA scientists submitted recommendations on the strategy’s initial draft to encourage stronger language and will continue to work with Health Canada to replace chemical tests on animals with reliable, human-relevant methods.
