Eurofins, Jones Dairy Farm, and Kerry Group are the latest companies to restrict funding of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute away from animal testing, joining a dozen other corporate sponsors that have done the same or pulled funds entirely for the institute’s gruesome tests on animals after hearing from PETA. The institute had … Read more »
Following two and a half years of sustained pressure from PETA, including advertisements, complaints to federal authorities, critiques from primatologists, scientists, and legal scholars, and 700,000 emails from supporters, federal funding for Margaret Livingstone’s infant monkey laboratory has been cancelled, ending decades of monkey torment. PETA first exposed Harvard’s monkey experiments in the fall of … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded a travel grant to a PhD candidate at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment to attend the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science. At the summer school, the winner had the opportunity to learn about non-animal tests that can … Read more »
A paper, concluding a series of papers co-authored by PETA scientists on eye irritation testing for chemicals at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, details additional methods for testing pesticides without using live rabbits. In addition to PETA scientists, the paper’s co-authors include representatives from a government agency, a non-animal testing laboratory, and others.
Thanks to sponsorships from PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and Colgate-Palmolive, six dedicated scientists traveled from India to the U.S. for state-of-the-art training on how to test chemicals for toxic effects without using animals. To date, the Science Consortium has sponsored more than 40 scientists to attend this training program run by a prestigious non-animal … Read more »
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has declared a fundamental change in its funding, away from cruel and outdated experiments on animals and shifting both money and focus toward non-animal research methods—a move that PETA has called on it to do for years. In its announcement, NIH has adopted several recommendations from Research Modernization NOW—our … Read more »
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) finalized a regulation that removes animal testing as an option for companies wanting to make human bone health claims for marketing their food and beverage products. The testing included cutting out the ovaries of mice, rats, or hamsters and feeding them a calcium-deficient diet to induce osteoporosis, feeding … Read more »
In another win for PETA, the U.S. District Court for the Western District dealt a massive blow to the University of Washington animal experimentation oversight committee—whose members attempted to evade basic public oversight by keeping their identities secret—handing down a decision that removes any legal barrier to PETA and Northwest Animal Rights Network receiving records that would … Read more »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the agency would move to replace tests on animals in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with more effective, human-relevant methods. PETA scientists are poised to leverage this decision, which is crucial for advancing the antibody-based treatment developed by PETA Science Consortium International e.V. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, life sciences company Creative Biolabs has cast aside the cruel and worthless forced swim test. The company confirmed that it will remove the FST from its service platform and no longer offer or perform it, noting that the test is “no longer relevant for drug development efforts.”
Good Foods Group, maker of dips and spreads, has announced they no longer fund gruesome tests on animals through the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Food Research Institute. The company publicly confirmed it “does not currently donate to the Food Research Institute.” In fewer than 72 hours, Good Foods buckled under the pressure of more than 28,000 … Read more »
At the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, which drew thousands of attendees, PETA scientists chaired sessions, presented posters, and provided educational courses on non-animal methods for testing chemicals. They also participated in mentorship events to help researchers advance their careers in non-animal science.
PETA pushed the legal envelope with a groundbreaking First Amendment lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health, seeking to enforce its First Amendment right to receive communications from willing speakers—here, primates imprisoned in the government laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray. The suit came after both federal agencies refused PETA’s … Read more »
PETA has secured assurance from Dairy Industries (Jamaica), Old Fashioned Cheese and Great Lakes Cheese that the companies will ensure donations to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute will exclusively support the non-animal research fund, preventing money from funding cruel tests on animals. PETA, a vegan organization, does not fully endorse either these companies, … Read more »
After negotiations with PETA, the European Respiratory Society—Europe’s largest scientific and clinical organization in respiratory medicine—confirmed it will stop using live animals in its medical training courses and is committed to transitioning to high-tech human-relevant models and simulators. The respiratory society has used piglets for its pediatric bronchoscopy course, during which animals had a tube … Read more »
