Victory! PETA Pressure Moves Taiwan FDA Away From Deadly Animal Tests

Update (January 20, 2026): Victory! Pressure from PETA supporters like you 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. Your voice was heard. More than 25,000 PETA supporters urged the agency to make the policy change—and they listened. The TFDA will no longer recommend that experimenters force-feed rats, starve them for 24 hours, jam tubes into their intestines, tie off part of their stomachs, and take their digestive fluids before killing and dissecting them. The change marks a shift toward state-of-the-art, compassionate science and sets an important example for other regulatory agencies around the world to follow.

While we celebrate this important victory, please help more animals in Taiwan by urging companies to stop killing animals in pointless experiments:

Original post: In a life-saving step forward for animals, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) is considering sparing rats from starvation and beheading in gruesome digestion experiments. PETA needs your help to ensure the agency follows through.

The TFDA has proposed a new regulation to its health food testing rules, which would end cruel digestive experiments on rats and instead require superior, human-based tests.

This is a compassionate, common-sense change from the existing regulation, which instructs experimenters to force-feed rats, starve them for 24 hours, jam tubes into their intestines, tie off part of their stomachs, repeatedly take their digestive fluids, cut off their heads, and dissect them.

The tests purportedly examine whether certain foods improve digestibility, protect the stomach lining, and more, so companies can make health claims about their food products. But because rats are not miniature humans, it’s dubious junk science with a high body count.

What You Can Do

Pressure from PETA supporters has helped save countless animals in Taiwan from being drowned or electroshocked, bred to develop hypertension, and more. You can do it again.

The comment period is now closed. Thank you to all who took action! We’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, please urge companies in Taiwan to stop experimenting on and killing animals for marketing food and beverage products.