Category: Animal Experimentation
North America’s Top Chocolate Ingredient Supplier Bans Animal Tests After PETA Push
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PETA Files Groundbreaking Suit Against NIH, HHS Over Sepsis Experiments on Animals
PETA’s taking the National Institutes of Health to court over its continued funding of failed sepsis tests on animals.
Victory! The European Parliament Votes YES to a Future Without Animal Experiments
History in the making: The European Parliament supports PETA’s call to end experiments on animals!
Casey Affleck and PETA Demand That UMass End Cruel Monkey Experiments
Casey Affleck was joined by his mother, Chris, when he spoke at a PETA news conference at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, protesting cruel experiments on monkeys.
WATCH: PETA President Visits Site of Silver Spring Monkeys’ Case 40 Years Later
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk revisits the site of the historic case that put animal rights on the map.
PETA Honors Former Animal Experimenter Turned Animal Rights Advocate With a Trailblazing Advocacy Award
PETA is honoring former animal experimenter turned animal rights advocate Dr. John Gluck for his trailblazing efforts to end experiments on animals.
NIH Blocks Comments Criticizing Cruel Tests on Animals From Its Social Media—PETA Takes Action
PETA and others are suing NIH yet again after learning just how far it will go to avoid criticism of its cruel experiments on animals.
After PETA Complaint, USDA Investigating Emory University Over Callous Mistreatment of Monkeys in Its Laboratories
Following a PETA complaint, the USDA is investigating Emory University for egregious animal welfare violations.
New UW Primate Center Director Was Once Suspended for Violations
Michele Basso is notorious for being one of the few primate experimenters ever to be suspended from using animals as a result of welfare violations. The problems didn’t end there.
PETA to NIH Director: Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
Cruel experiments on animals, wasted tax money, lack of vision. This op-ed in the Miami Herald eviscerates Francis Collins’ performance as head of the National Institutes of Health.
PETA Told You So, and Now There’s More Proof: Francis Collins Must Go!
Not from “The Onion”: NIH has been quietly funding gain-of-function research into viruses, some capable of wiping out half the planet, with almost no checks.
Cleveland Clinic Cover-Up: PETA Reveals Violations of Federal Guidelines
Among other incidents, records obtained by PETA reveal that experimenters at the Cleveland Clinic caused mice skin lesions from hair-removal creams.
Tax Dollars at Work: 8 Animal Torture Devices Labs Buy With Your Money
Laboratories are equipped with costly devices—many of which are paid for by tax money—that allow experimenters to carry out cruel and deadly experiments on monkeys.
PETA Scientists to Present the Animal-Free Future of Research
PETA scientists will figure prominently at the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences conference this week.
Cosmetics Tests on Animals Sneak Back Into the European Union
No matter the law, companies always have the option to choose different ingredients or even decide not to develop products if it means sparing animals’ lives.
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind