For more than two decades, experimenters at the National Institute on Aging (NIA, part of the National Institutes of Health) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison) starved caged monkeys—depriving them of a whopping 30 percent of needed calories—to see if this would increase their longevity. Now, the vivisectors at NIA have announced that the extreme, … Read more »
For more than two decades, Revlon was a member of PETA’s Caring Consumer program and refused to allow animals to be poisoned, burned, and blinded in tests of its products. But the company is now on the “Do Test” list after Revlon started selling products in China where animal tests are required for most cosmetics. Although … Read more »
In response to a series of significant animal welfare violations and complaints filed by PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken the rare step of fining the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) almost $12,000 for repeated violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. ONPRC imprisons, sickens, terrorizes, and mutilates thousands of monkeys … Read more »
Thanks to a donation of simulation equipment from PETA, goats will no longer have holes cut into their chests and necks and be killed for trauma training exercises in Egypt. piddy77|cc by 2.0 Traumatic Trauma Training Earlier this year, PETA was contacted by Dr. Abdelhakim Elkholy—director of the Egyptian Life Support Training Center (ELSTC) in … Read more »
Following a vigorous PETA campaign, Air China has confirmed that it’s joining nearly every other airline worldwide by refusing to transport monkeys to laboratories. The airline’s decision comes less than 24 hours after PETA asked its Facebook and Twitter followers to call Air China Cargo’s main office at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport … Read more »
Today would be the 156th birthday of George Bernard Shaw (“Bernard” to his friends), which is an occasion worth noting. If you’re not familiar with the work of this independent-minded Irish playwright and provocateur, you’re missing out. Shaw managed to speak truth to power with such humor, clarity, and intelligence that the powerful ended up … Read more »
Update Great news! Following thousands of your e-mails and talks with PETA, Urban Decay has announced that it won’t sell its products in China until non-animal testing methods are accepted there. We are delighted that Urban Decay is staying true to its ethic of producing top-quality products without harming animals—even though it means giving up … Read more »
The movement to end vivisection is gaining more allies every year!
In 1986, our undercover footage spurred Dr. Goodall to help PETA get this monkey-torturing facility shuttered.
In response to a complaint filed by PETA in May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Air China for violating federal animal welfare laws. PETA’s filing stemmed from an incident in which a monkey being shipped to a laboratory escaped from his cage during an Air China passenger flight at New York’s JFK … Read more »
Update: As another indicator of the decline in the demand for its cruel services, just one month after Covance announced that it would be closing its animal-testing laboratory in Chandler, Arizona, the company has announced that it will also be laying off 50 employees at its facility in Madison, Wisconsin, where thousands of primates and … Read more »
Don’t miss a thing: Follow PETA on Tumblr. PETA News on Tumblr There’s one thing that both Team Twilight and Team Hunger Games can agree on: Everyone should be on Team Tilly. Are rats smarter than your search engine? The answer may make you want to Google the “Hidden Lives of Rats.” New Jersey is … Read more »
We’ve told you before how cats and ferrets suffer in archaic training courses at Washington University in St. Louis. Now, we’ve obtained a photo of the miserable living conditions for a monkey named George, who is also confined to this facility: Information on who is experimenting on George was not released, but we wonder if … Read more »
The U.S. Army’s plans to use animals in trauma training are enough to make a goat faint.
PETA has been on pharmaceutical company Amgen‘s case for years over the company’s stubborn refusal to more actively implement alternatives to animal experiments, among other things. But we’re riding high this week after pulling a fast one at Amgen’s Tour of California Bike Race. Amgen sponsored the massive race and had its branding everywhere, but … Read more »
