Sustained efforts by PETA and the veterinary group Our Honor have convinced Washington State University to spare goats and sheep from gruesome deaths in a veterinary surgical training laboratory. The animals were slated for terminal procedures, but tens of thousands of supporters contacted administrators, urging them to reconsider. The university’s decision ends a large-animal surgery … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and collaborators in the US and India co-organized first-of-their-kind, hands-on training courses in India on state-of-the-art non-animal toxicity testing methods. The multi-day training courses mark the first time these sessions have been open to the scientific community in India, attracting more than 100 scientists interested in gaining practical experience with … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is increasingly using an approach co-developed by PETA scientists that predicts cancer risk from existing toxicity data. This approach spares 800 animals each time it is used. So far this year, the EPA has spared a total of 4,000 rats and mice.
PETA scientists and their collaborators published a new study that uses lab-grown human lung cells instead of animals to test chemicals. The research is already making an impact, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used the data to develop guidance prioritizing human-relevant, non-animal data over inhalation tests on animals for certain types of chemicals.
The University of Minnesota has confirmed that experimenter Geoff Ghose “no longer works with nonhuman primates.” The development comes after PETA exposed Ghose’s experiments, in which he and his staff cut into monkeys’ scalps, bolted metal headposts to their heads, and implanted recording chambers over openings in their skulls. In April 2025, PETA met with … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and over 28,000 supporters, the Taiwan government stopped recommending tests on animals for blood glucose and blood lipid marketing claims—a monumental move that saves mice, rats, and hamsters from being force-fed, starved, tormented, and killed in pointless experiments. This decision reverses the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration’s outdated recommendation that cruel … Read more »
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 »
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development published guidelines on numerous tests that will replace the use of animals when examining how chemicals affect human livers, skin, hormones, and DNA. PETA scientists provided input on these methods and have a seat at the table in the OECD meetings where international guidelines for chemicals are developed.
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 US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched the Office of Research Innovation, Validation, and Application (ORIVA) that will spearhead efforts to expand the development, validation, and use of non-animal methods. PETA scientists look forward to partnering with the new office to advance non-animal science, as these are efforts they have supported and advanced … 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.
