PETA protesters wearing monkey masks and holding signs reading, “Deplane Monkeys,” recently held demonstrations outside the Chicago headquarters of United Airlines and the U.S. headquarters of Air France in New York. PETA is urging the airlines to commit to a ban on shipping primates to laboratories, as almost every airline in the world already has, … Read more »
Here is some of the hideous handiwork of April’s Vivisector of the Month, Janet Neisewander of Arizona State University, who has been conducting wasteful and cruel addiction experiments on animals since 1984. Using nearly $3 million in taxpayer money, Neisewander gets rats hooked on drugs like morphine, cocaine, and nicotine—sometimes after obliterating parts of the … Read more »
It shouldn’t happen to intelligent, sensitive cows, but it does: With holes cut into their sides, they are used as sideshow-like attractions to lure children and prospective students to university events and fundraisers. Distraught attendees at some of these recent events sent PETA these disturbing photographs: The cows are part of common experiments that involve … Read more »
Navy veteran Bob Barker was appalled at what he saw in undercover video footage of U.S. Coast Guard trauma training leaked to PETA. In the video, live goats are stabbed, have their internal organs pulled out, and have their limbs cut off with tree trimmers. The goats moan loudly and kick while they are being … Read more »
Thanks to a brave whistleblower, PETA has obtained horrific undercover video of live animals whose limbs were cut off for an archaic military training drill. The course was held earlier this year in Virginia Beach, Virginia, by private contractor Tier 1 Group. In the shocking video, instructors repeatedly crack and cut off the limbs of … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, PUMA—one of the world’s largest designers and developers of sports footwear, apparel, and accessories—has pledged never to use animal fur, wool that comes from mulesed (i.e., mutilated) Australian sheep, or exotic-animal skins. How appropriate that a company named after one of nature’s most beautiful animals would help protect so many others! … Read more »
Last year, thanks to several thousand e-mails from PETA supporters and members, the Department of Transportation (DOT) recommended that companies that ship chemicals conduct the required skin corrosion tests without hurting and killing rabbits. Now, thanks to another huge effort, DOT has at last updated its website to reflect this change. Robobobobo|cc by 2.0 A Victory … Read more »
A primate at a Covance primate testing lab. Update: After receiving PETA’s request for an investigation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that Bristol-Myers Squibb was to blame for the hanging death of the monkey and cited the company for violating the Animal Welfare Act. As if being locked inside a laboratory and treated like … Read more »
Last night in Tinseltown, celebrities crowded onto the red carpet while photographers’ flashbulbs went off like fireworks. But it wasn’t the premiere of a new movie. It was the grand opening of the Bob Barker Building, PETA’s new West Coast headquarters, located in L.A.’s Echo Park. The famed game show host and animal defender extraordinaire … Read more »
Following the finding by the federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI) that a former professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University hurt animals in experiments and then lied about the results to get more federal funding, PETA has sent a letter to the director of the National Institute on Alcohol … Read more »
Please let Avon, Estée Lauder, and Mary Kay know that you won’t buy their products until they are 100 percent cruelty-free once again.
As the U.S. Congress considers the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, which would permanently ban the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments and retire all 600 federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries, Rampart star Woody Harrelson has written a letter to one of his California senators, Barbara Boxer, on behalf of PETA imploring her … Read more »
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is coming under fire today for cutting off hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Planned Parenthood that were used to provide underprivileged women with breast cancer screenings. We’ve never been big fans of Komen because it funds cruel animal tests, so we are sending Planned Parenthood a … Read more »
This Wally isn’t an adorable robot busy cleaning up the Earth courtesy of stunning Pixar animation, but it is an ingenious little gizmo that will clean up your stubble courtesy of triple blades and an ergonomic handle. And it’s pretty darn cute too. But that’s not even the best part. Wally’s package proudly displays … Read more »
Less than two weeks after receiving appeals from PETA and PETA Germany, RWTH Aachen University, a top German college, has announced that it will no longer perform invasive and deadly training exercises on live pigs in its advanced surgical course, effective immediately! Truly ‘Advanced’ Training Earlier this month, PETA and PETA Germany sent university officials … Read more »
