PETA Scientists Strategize Ways to Increase Use of Non-Animal Testing
PETA Scientists Strategize Ways to Increase Use of Non-Animal Testing

Certain products continue to be tested on animals even when tests that don’t use live animals are available—and PETA scientists have a plan to change that.

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100,000 People Speak Up for Pigs in Australia
100,000 People Speak Up for Pigs in Australia

A costumed “pig” delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons demanding they stop using pigs in deadly trainings.

PETA Asks Leading Medical Journal for Retraction
PETA Asks Leading Medical Journal for Retraction

Ringling Bros. employees co-authored a paper published in a leading medical journal, and let’s just say that it has some problems.

Goat’s Valiant Escape From Laboratory Ends in Tragedy
Goat’s Valiant Escape From Laboratory Ends in Tragedy

After a goat escapes from horrifying “acute cartilage injury” experiments at the University of Iowa, the college is cited for violating federal animal welfare law.

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Why Do These Cows and Bulls Have Holes Carved Into Their Sides?
Why Do These Cows and Bulls Have Holes Carved Into Their Sides?

This is not OK.

Thousands of Animals Saved with a Pen Stroke
Thousands of Animals Saved with a Pen Stroke

President Obama just signed a new law that will spare thousands of animals from suffering in laboratories.

Feds Slap Santa Cruz Biotech With Largest Fine in USDA History
Feds Slap Santa Cruz Biotech With Largest Fine in USDA History

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that the facility must pay a $3.5 million penalty and stop using animals to make antibodies.

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Take Action: Students Use Cat’s Intestines as Jump Rope
Take Action: Students Use Cat’s Intestines as Jump Rope

Students at a Texas high school recorded videos as their classmates used a cat’s intestines as a jump rope during a dissection lesson.

Chimpanzees at New Iberia Research Center to Be Sent to Sanctuary
Chimpanzees at New Iberia Research Center to Be Sent to Sanctuary

Now that it’s illegal to conduct invasive experiments on chimpanzees, the New Iberia Research Center is sending 220 chimpanzees to a sanctuary.

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‘Pigs’ Protest Trauma Training, Saying ‘Cut Cruelty, Not Animals’
‘Pigs’ Protest Trauma Training, Saying ‘Cut Cruelty, Not Animals’

Watch what happened when PETA Australia supporters dressed as pigs descended on a surgeons’ conference to protest cruel trauma training on live animals.

Experts Propose Non-Animal Approach to Predict Lung Toxicity
Experts Propose Non-Animal Approach to Predict Lung Toxicity

Scientific journals have published recommendations from a PETA International Science Consortium workshop for predicting lung toxicity with non-animal methods.

Harvard Laboratory Caught Tormenting and Decapitating Animals
Harvard Laboratory Caught Tormenting and Decapitating Animals

Experimenters at Harvard have been caught performing cruel surgeries on mice and rats and injecting animals with painful materials.

Daniel Berrigan: Peace Activist and Animal Defender
Daniel Berrigan: Peace Activist and Animal Defender

The Rev. Daniel Berrigan was dedicated to promoting peace, so it should come as no surprise that he was also a vocal opponent of violence against animals.

Victory! Rabbits to Be Spared in Taiwan
Victory! Rabbits to Be Spared in Taiwan

After pressure, the Taiwanese government has promised to end the use of rabbits in classical swine fever vaccine production by as soon as the end of this year.

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PETA Founder Endures Public ‘Torture’ in Protest
PETA Founder Endures Public ‘Torture’ in Protest

In a striking demonstration against animal experiments carried out by the UK government, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk was strapped to a “torture table” and “gassed.”

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