Emma, the global billion-dollar mattress company and world’s largest direct-to-consumer sleep brand, has made the compassionate decision to close its online storefront on HKTVmall by the end of 2026. The move comes after PETA alerted Emma that HKTVmall’s parent company, HKTV, pays experimenters to slice up animals in gruesome tests. Once a featured HKTVmall partner, … Read more »
In yet another significant win for animals, ACA International has exited the monkey-shipping business! The U.S.-based charter brokerage company had been high on PETA’s radar for aiding the transport of monkeys to their deaths in U.S. laboratories. But the company has canceled its U.S. Department of Agriculture registration and is no longer in that sordid … Read more »
Kwik Trip, one of the largest privately held convenience store chains with over 900 stores across the Midwest, has stopped the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute from using the company’s sponsorship money to fund cruel and pointless experiments on animals after hearing from PETA. Kwik Trip restricted its support of the institute after PETA … Read more »
Ridglan Farms will release the dogs remaining at its facility and shut down both its beagle-breeding and beagle-testing operations. This victory is the culmination of years of pressure from PETA and other animal protection organizations—notably, Alliance for Animals, the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project, Big Dog Ranch Rescue, Center for a Humane Economy, Dane4Dogs, Direct … Read more »
Records obtained by PETA show that Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) experimenter Gerald Pepe has not purchased any baboons since he killed the remaining four monkeys imprisoned in his laboratory in 2024. As a result, Pepe has had no baboons available to torment, surgically mutilate, or kill in his laboratory. Pepe’s funding for the experiments … Read more »
The European Commission has published its “roadmap towards phasing out animal testing for chemical safety assessments,” signaling a clear shift towards a future in which chemical safety assessments rely on reliable and relevant non-animal approaches. PETA U.K. scientists have been closely involved in shaping the roadmap from the start—for example, by participating in expert working … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has updated its official list of test methods it considers scientifically reliable and relevant, which could be used to make regulatory decisions. This is also the first time the list has been accompanied by instructions for how stakeholders can nominate additional non-animal methods to the list.
PETA has learned that gruesome spine-crushing experiments on rabbits conducted at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and funded by the National Institutes of Health have been halted at least five months ahead of schedule. This comes after we exposed these painful and pointless tests, paid for with nearly $3.8 million from NIH. The experiments left rabbits unable … Read more »
The National Institutes of Health honored PETA scientists and collaborators with an award for advancing the development and use of non-animal antibodies. This work challenges an industry that uses millions of animals each year as living factories to produce antibodies.
A PETA Science Consortium International e.V. publication revealed that non-animal antibodies can readily replace many of the most commonly used animal-derived antibodies in scientific research. While offering greater consistency and reliability, these non-animal replacements are commercially available and can be adopted by laboratories immediately.
At the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, the world’s largest toxicology event, PETA scientists chaired sessions, presented posters, and took home awards for Best Paper for their work on replacing the use of live rabbits in eye irritation tests, Best Poster for their work on replacing the use of rats in inhalation tests, and Best … Read more »
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 »
