Brilliant new research in the U.K. holds hope for Alzheimer’s patients by studying the disease in a dish—instead of in mice.
In addition to being cruel, addiction studies using animals waste resources that should be spent on research with real benefits for people with addictions.
Passengers preparing to board China Southern Airlines flights at LAX encountered some turbulence before they even got off the ground.
How do you stop animal laboratories in nine countries on three continents in one fell swoop? Read on.
Residents of Madison, Wisconsin, are getting a disturbing peek behind the closed doors of a University of Wisconsin–Madison cat laboratory.
Tell Congress that it’s time to catch up to our allies and completely replace the use of animals in military trauma training with superior non-animal training methods.
Madigan Army Medical Center has confirmed that it has completely replaced its cruel use of ferrets for pediatric intubation training with modern simulators.
In the midst of World Week for Animals in Laboratories, we have exciting news to share. After more than three decades of PETA action, Harvard will be shutting down its deeply controversial primate-testing facility in 2015. This victory is 30 years in the making. In fact, some early-day PETA members took part in a headline-making demonstration … Read more »
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) is the last facility in the country that still abuses cats for Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training, in defiance of modern science and ethics. Now PETA has obtained alarming undercover video footage of cats being subjected to these cruel training exercises in a recent WUSTL PALS course conducted in conjunction … Read more »
The end is near for the military’s cruel trauma training exercises, in which thousands of animals are maimed and killed each year! PETA has discovered—and the U.S. Army’s Office of the Surgeon General has confirmed—that the Army has implemented a major shift in policy that states, “Non-medical personnel are not authorized to participate in training … Read more »
It looks like the Iranian Space Agency has come back down to earth to pursue real science, at least for now. Learn what PETA’s doing next.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW) should be cited for violating the Animal Welfare Act. That’s the verdict of the veterinarian who oversaw the treatment of Double Trouble and other cats who were subjected to cruel brain experiments at UW. Attending veterinarian Dr. Richard “Jim” Brown agrees with PETA’s allegations that laboratory staff failed to give … Read more »
In response to a series of significant animal welfare violations and complaints filed by PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken the rare step of fining the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) almost $12,000 for repeated violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. ONPRC imprisons, sickens, terrorizes, and mutilates thousands of monkeys … Read more »
Thanks to a donation of simulation equipment from PETA, goats will no longer have holes cut into their chests and necks and be killed for trauma training exercises in Egypt. piddy77|cc by 2.0 Traumatic Trauma Training Earlier this year, PETA was contacted by Dr. Abdelhakim Elkholy—director of the Egyptian Life Support Training Center (ELSTC) in … Read more »
Update Great news! Following thousands of your e-mails and talks with PETA, Urban Decay has announced that it won’t sell its products in China until non-animal testing methods are accepted there. We are delighted that Urban Decay is staying true to its ethic of producing top-quality products without harming animals—even though it means giving up … Read more »
