Baby Monkeys Need Their Mothers—Experimenters Punish Them for It  
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 
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.

Lab Horrors at Johns Hopkins: NIH Flubs Investigation; PETA Urges Action
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.

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

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.

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