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

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

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

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

PETA Sets Out to Advertise on Elon Musk’s X—Will He Accept?
PETA Sets Out to Advertise on Elon Musk’s X—Will He Accept?

Despite Elon Musk’s message to advertisers fleeing X to “go f*** yourself,” PETA is offering to cover some of his lost revenue with an ad of our own on the platform.

2023’s Biggest Victories for Animals in Labs and How PETA Made Them Happen
2023’s Biggest Victories for Animals in Labs and How PETA Made Them Happen

In 2023, PETA’s dedicated team worked all year to shut down barbaric laboratories, advance non-animal tests, and expose the cruelty of experiments on animals.

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Netherlands Researcher Wins PETA Grant to Study HIV Vaccine Failures
Netherlands Researcher Wins PETA Grant to Study HIV Vaccine Failures

Work has officially begun on a first-of-its-kind $50,000 research grant, funded by two generous supporters, that will help get monkeys out of HIV testing laboratories.

Feds Cite UC-Davis After Two Monkey Deaths; Sheriff’s Office Investigating
Feds Cite UC-Davis After Two Monkey Deaths; Sheriff’s Office Investigating

PETA successfully urged local law enforcement to investigate the death of a monkey at UC-Davis. Now federal authorities have cited the school for critical violations of animal welfare guidelines.

Labcorp Staff Snapped Monkeys’ Bones, and All the USDA Did Was Issue a Paltry Fine
Labcorp Staff Snapped Monkeys’ Bones, and All the USDA Did Was Issue a Paltry Fine

PETA reveals: The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a paltry $9,000 fine after Labcorp staff broke the bones of several monkeys, leading to their deaths.

Victory! UW-Madison Ends Painful Sleep Experiment After a Wake-Up Call From PETA
Victory! UW-Madison Ends Painful Sleep Experiment After a Wake-Up Call From PETA

After hearing from PETA and supporters like you, a nightmarish sleep experiment on marmosets at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has ended.

The American Psychological Association Advocates Killing Animals in New Article
The American Psychological Association Advocates Killing Animals in New Article

In a stunning turnaround, the American Psychological Association is now advocating more animal experimentation and putting less emphasis on animal-free methods.

OHSU Kills Pigs, Fails Women; PETA Offers a Better Strategy for OB/GYN Training
OHSU Kills Pigs, Fails Women; PETA Offers a Better Strategy for OB/GYN Training

This public health and science university needed PETA to explain that women aren’t pigs.

PETA Exposé: Inside NIH’s Annual Party That Celebrates Killing Animals
PETA Exposé: Inside NIH’s Annual Party That Celebrates Killing Animals

You won’t believe these National Institutes of Health experimenters’ latest scheme to make themselves appear “grateful” to the animals they’ve tortured and killed.

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