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‘We Can and Should Do Better’: Baboon Experiments Move Virginia Senator to Action

A Virginia state senator, moved by the plight of animals in laboratories, led the enactment of a new law to increase transparency in laboratories that experiment on animals.

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Another Death, Another Xenotransplant Failure: PETA Points to Problems With Pig Kidney Surgeries

Pigs aren’t merely housing their organs until humans need them. Science won’t advance if we continue to use other species for their body parts.

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Is It a UMass Lab or the Death Star? Chewie’s Story, From the Dark Side of Campus

Caged, cut open, and subjected to cruel experiments. This was life for a tiny marmoset imprisoned in a University of Massachusetts–Amherst lab.

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Imprisoned, Impregnated, and Impaired: Alissa’s ‘Life’ of Misery in Med School Lab

Alissa was repeatedly bred for 18 years, and her babies were taken to be used in experiments. Then, Eastern Virginia Medical School used her in invasive pregnancy experiments, and she died.

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Baby Monkeys Need Their Mothers—Experimenters Punish Them for It  

The babies of other primates need their mothers, just as humans do. But experimenters separate them from their mothers in numerous cruel and pointless tests

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UMass Experimenters or Stormtroopers? Yoda the Marmoset’s Life and Death in a Lab 

Behind the cage bars of a University of Massachusetts–Amherst laboratory, a monkey named Yoda struggled with the dark side of science.

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although not at a Johns Hopkins lab, this beagle kept behind bars for experimentation shows how nearly 65,000 dogs are imprisoned in U.S. laboratories each year
Lab Horrors at Johns Hopkins: NIH Flubs Investigation; PETA Urges Action

Heard about the horrific history of animal testing in Johns Hopkins labs? PETA reveals how the university is getting away with murder—and who their accomplice is.

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NIMH Funnels Millions of Tax Dollars Into Archaic Animal ‘Fight Clubs’

Unlike in “Fight Club,” our code of honor demands that we expose what the National Institute of Mental Health does to tiny animals with your money.

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PETA’s New International Women’s Day Video Calls Out OHSU for Pig Mutilation

PETA’s new video for International Women’s Day calls out Oregon Health & Science University for mutilating pigs in its OB/GYN training.

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Empathy Over Experimentation: The Case Against the Term ‘Lab Rat’

The term “lab rat” only perpetuates speciesism and condones cruel experiments on animals. Let PETA increase your compassion for rats.

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U.S. Tax Money Pays for Cruel, Deadly, and Fraudulent Foreign Animal Tests

PETA has found even more reasons to urge your legislators to act. Let’s save lives and stop the National Institutes of Health from using our tax money to fund foreign laboratories.

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Monkeys Saved From Colombian Hellhole: CARGO Act Can Prevent More Abuse Abroad

Colombian experimenters exposed by a PETA investigation are paying for their crimes against animals. The CARGO Act can ensure that no more tax dollars go to animal tests abroad.

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10 Terrible NIMH-Funded Animal Experiments—and How You Can Help End Them

PETA’s list just scrapes the surface of what the National Institute of Mental Health is doing to animals with your tax dollars.

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NIMH Is Hiring Another Monkey Torturer: PETA Reveals What Applicants Can Expect

People who care about good science and reducing animal suffering won’t want to apply for the National Institute of Mental Health’s newest job.

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NIH Accepts PETA Scientists’ Suggestions for Boosting Non-Animal Research

The National Institutes of Health committed to investing in animal-free research after hearing PETA scientists’ recommendations.

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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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