Update: In 2015, following pressure from PETA and other animal advocates, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that all captive chimpanzees would now be reclassified as “endangered,” effectively ending invasive experiments on our closest living genetic relatives. In addition, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised to retire all federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. … Read more »
Philippine Airlines is one of only three major airlines that still ship primates to laboratories where they are tormented and killed in cruel experiments, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to its representatives. Airline reps have recently been telling concerned PETA members who call their offices that they don’t ship monkeys and have not done so … Read more »
When cosmetics giant Revlon held its annual meeting in Edison, New Jersey, yesterday, PETA was there to put the cosmetics giant’s bigwigs on the spot. They didn’t need any “smoky rose” blush to add a little color to their cheeks when a PETA representative stood up and made the following statement: For more than two … Read more »
Driver Jim Weiland is on the fast track to ending animal suffering. As he prepares to face off against other Ferrari drivers in the North American Ferrari Challenge, a cross-continent race series, his 458 Italia GT is facing off against cruelty to animals, with these new PETA decals: Jim will tour the U.S. and Canada, … Read more »
Yesterday, after five years of campaigning and thanks in large part to thousands of calls and e-mails from PETA supporters to state legislators, Connecticut has overwhelmingly passed a dissection-choice bill that will allow students to opt out of participating in or watching classroom animal dissections and instead be provided with humane non-animal learning methods, such as … Read more »
The following originally appeared on Girlie Girl Army. Susan G. Komen for the Cure was hit with a tidal wave of backlash when it announced that it was pulling $680,000 in grants to Planned Parenthood that had covered breast-cancer screenings for underprivileged women. As the people behind all the pink went red in the face, … Read more »
The infamous Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) has been cited again for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) following an inspection by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that discovered that the facility was confining a baboon to a cage so tiny that it failed to meet the already dismal cage-size requirements of the … Read more »
Check out these pictures from two recent protests held by PETA and PETA Asia-Pacific outside Philippine Airlines’ offices in San Francisco and Manila, respectively. At stake: the lives of primates shipped by the airline to the U.S. for delivery to experimenters, who will imprison, abuse, and kill the terrified animals. Philippine Airlines is one of only three … Read more »
Following a complaint from PETA alleging the painful and horrific deaths of two monkeys at the hands of pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has not only confirmed the allegations and cited the company for egregious violations of the Animal Welfare Act but also took the additional rare step of fining the … Read more »
Animal activist Michelle Doers was reading Animal Times when she first learned about actor James Cromwell’s arrest at the University of Wisconsin (UW) for protesting its heinous experiments on cats. That’s when she remembered reading about something else in the PETA publication: a woman who wrapped her car in an ad to raise awareness about animal … Read more »
Noooo! How does it happen every year? Mother’s Day is just six days away, and all you’ve got prepared for dear old Mom is an impromptu poem on the phone. Or the old standby, flowers. But does it have to be that way? Noooo! iStockPhoto.com/dickysingh Here are some gifts that will delight your mom while … Read more »
