Wisconsin’s Own Lawmakers Refuse to Let UW Hide Cruel Experiments
Wisconsin’s Own Lawmakers Refuse to Let UW Hide Cruel Experiments

UW threw a Hail Mary to try to get the records of its cruel experiments exempted from open-records laws. It failed.

One Experimenter’s Story: I Hurt Animals
One Experimenter’s Story: I Hurt Animals

What does it feel like to work in a laboratory?

Paul Gazda "We Are Sorry"
Will Tobacco Tests on Animals End Up in the Ashtray of History?
Will Tobacco Tests on Animals End Up in the Ashtray of History?

Experimenters are starting to move away from the use of animals in tobacco toxicity tests and instead embrace humane methods.

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See the Ad That’s Making Taxpayers See Red
See the Ad That’s Making Taxpayers See Red

Just in time for tax week, PETA’s ad exposes the federal government for wasting taxpayers’ dollars—and monkeys’ lives—in cruel maternal-deprivation experiments.

Drug Abuse Expo Protest: NIH Honcho Denounced for Baby-Monkey Experiments
Drug Abuse Expo Protest: NIH Honcho Denounced for Baby-Monkey Experiments

PETA demands an end to the highly controversial, much-criticized abuse of infant primates.

Cutting-Edge Toxicology Testing Doesn’t Involve Animals
Cutting-Edge Toxicology Testing Doesn’t Involve Animals

PISC scientists attend the Society of Toxicology’s annual meeting to urge researchers from around the world to stop relying on archaic animal tests.

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Protesters Disrupt NIH Baby Monkey Experimenter’s Speech
Protesters Disrupt NIH Baby Monkey Experimenter’s Speech

This action is the latest salvo in PETA’s campaign calling for an end to NIH’s abuse of baby monkeys.

Experts: Tormenting Baby Monkeys Is Bad Science
Experts: Tormenting Baby Monkeys Is Bad Science

Psychologists, other mental-health specialists, physicians, researchers, and primatologists slam NIH’s cruel maternal-deprivation experiments on baby monkeys.

James Cromwell Spends B-Day Addressing Congress on Monkey Experiments
James Cromwell Spends B-Day Addressing Congress on Monkey Experiments

Cromwell screens the video that prompted 175,000 people to demand an end to NIH’s maternal-deprivation experiments on monkeys.

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Victory! UW-Madison Closes Cruel Cat Lab
Victory! UW-Madison Closes Cruel Cat Lab

Following years of pressure from PETA, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ends its cruel cat experiments and adopts out the remaining cats.

Rats Feel Pain and Like Being Tickled—Why Use Them as Test Tubes?
Rats Feel Pain and Like Being Tickled—Why Use Them as Test Tubes?

Vivisectors have found that tickling rats helps them endure painful injections. But why are these smart, sensitive animals experimented on at all?

Monkeys in NIH Lab Get Congress’ Support for Christmas
Monkeys in NIH Lab Get Congress’ Support for Christmas

The campaign to get NIH to end these experiments is gaining steam, and it looks like the new year is bringing new hope for the monkeys imprisoned at NIH.

Dr. Jenn Berman: It’s Not the Monkeys Who Need Their Heads Examined
Dr. Jenn Berman: It’s Not the Monkeys Who Need Their Heads Examined

“Couples Therapy” host Dr. Jenn Berman wonders what cruel baby-monkey experiments say about the experimenters themselves.

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Mary Matalin: NIH Spent $30 Million on WHAT?
Mary Matalin: NIH Spent $30 Million on WHAT?

Republican strategist Mary Matalin doesn’t want the government to throw any more money away on cruel experiments on baby monkeys.

‘Monkeys’ Tell Air France: ‘You Brought Us Here—Now Get Us Home’
‘Monkeys’ Tell Air France: ‘You Brought Us Here—Now Get Us Home’

During an Air France event , a disruptive “monkey” asks to be sent back to the home she was stolen from.

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