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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Canada has tried every trick in the book to get around the European Union’s ban on seal fur. But it isn’t having much luck. The most recent ruse was to try to convince the General Court of the European Union to overturn the ban on the grounds that it hurt the Inuit people’s livelihood—even though … Read more »
This year, we have something to celebrate as we commemorate World Week for Animals in Laboratories. After 30 years of pressure from PETA and other organizations, Harvard Medical School’s New England Primate Research Center is shutting its doors. This milestone victory proves that even the mightiest can fall—or do better, move on, or modernize. And … Read more »
In the midst of World Week for Animals in Laboratories, we have exciting news to share. After more than three decades of PETA action, Harvard will be shutting down its deeply controversial primate-testing facility in 2015. This victory is 30 years in the making. In fact, some early-day PETA members took part in a headline-making demonstration … Read more »
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) is the last facility in the country that still abuses cats for Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) training, in defiance of modern science and ethics. Now PETA has obtained alarming undercover video footage of cats being subjected to these cruel training exercises in a recent WUSTL PALS course conducted in conjunction … Read more »
President Barack Obama’s new $100 million BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is intended to provide insight into human brain function and behavior to help find cures for diseases. But considering that the project’s leadership committee is dominated by animal experimenters who have little experience in human brain research, it’s doubtful that the … Read more »
Got your dancing shoes on? Several of PETA’s celebrity supporters do, and they’ve been showing off their best moves on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars (DWTS). The animal-friendly folks tripping the light fantastic this season include the following: Andy Dick Before he began cutting a rug on DWTS, this compassionate comic took on the cutting-up … Read more »
As a global leader in the development of toxicology tests for chemicals, the MatTek Corporation has made quite a name for itself among government agencies and manufacturers of all types. But one thing you will never hear the company associated with is animal testing, which is why MatTek has scored a PETA award. © Jo-Anne McArthur … Read more »
The end is near for the military’s cruel trauma training exercises, in which thousands of animals are maimed and killed each year! PETA has discovered—and the U.S. Army’s Office of the Surgeon General has confirmed—that the Army has implemented a major shift in policy that states, “Non-medical personnel are not authorized to participate in training … Read more »