PETA entities worldwide put their money where their mouths are—or, rather, put their donors’ money where the animals’ mouths are, to spare animals from being force-fed and otherwise poisoned with toxic chemicals in experiments. PETA entities have now provided more than $1 million to fund the development and implementation of non-animal research methods. Testing doesn’t … Read more »
In a landmark move, a North Carolina grand jury has returned indictments for 14 counts of felony cruelty-to-animals against four individuals, including a supervisor, who worked at Professional Laboratory Research Services (PLRS), which was investigated by PETA last fall. This marks the first time in U.S. history that laboratory workers have faced felony cruelty charges … Read more »
Update: Eighteen people with homes near the Yerkes National Primate Research Center have filed a complaint with city and county officials demanding that the facility be shut down. The female rhesus monkey still has not been found. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the 4,000 intelligent, sensitive nonhuman primates at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate … Read more »
Ever wonder what persuaded self-described “professional idiot” Steve-O to adopt a vegan diet? Believe it or not, it was a religious experience. “I heard a Krishna Consciousness guy in a YouTube video ask ‘How can you expect to be saved if you eat meat?’ I became terrified of having to ‘answer’ for all of the suffering … Read more »
After a three-year PETA India campaign, one of India’s top medical schools, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), has agreed to let six monkeys retire to live out the rest of their lives in a sanctuary. The monkeys have been confined to tiny, filthy wire cages in AIIMS’ laboratory for up to a … Read more »
PETA has long warned that having students dissect animals in the classroom has the unintended consequence of teaching kids disrespect for living beings, and a recent prank involving a dead cat appears to bolster our case. A senior at John Jay High School in San Antonio stole a dead cat from the school’s dissection laboratory … Read more »
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) will no longer torment and kill sheep in excruciatingly painful decompression experiments following actions by PETA and Madison-based Alliance for Animals. For decades, the U.S. Navy had funded experiments at UW in which sheep were placed into high-pressure hyperbaric chambers. As a result, the animals suffered the excruciating pain of … Read more »
If these atrocious acts were committed outside laboratories, they would be felonies.
If rats, mice, dogs, and monkeys were choosing public enemy number one, they would probably go with Charles River Laboratories (CRL), which breeds and sells millions of animals every year to laboratories around the world, supplying half of all the animals used in experiments. CRL is the second largest U.S. importer of nonhuman primates sold … Read more »
Harry Morton, owner of popular Mexican eatery Pink Taco, had reason to be pink in the face following the public outrage generated over the restaurant’s decision to paint a donkey pink and tie her to the sign of his establishment at a busy shopping mall for hours in the blazing Los Angeles heat as part … Read more »
We’re betting that when that shameless front for the cruel animal experimentation industry, the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR), started putting up a series of misleading and offensive billboards, it wasn’t expecting them to get a makeover: Click picture for larger image While daredevils have been giving FBR a piece of their minds, PETA has … Read more »
Just in time for World Week for Animals in Laboratories, PETA has unveiled a new nationwide ad campaign: “If you call it ‘medical research,’ you can get away with murder.” What happens in laboratories—including burning, poisoning, crippling, and blinding animals—would be considered criminal cruelty if it occurred elsewhere. But no experiment—no matter how painful—is prohibited … Read more »
People frequently ask PETA what they can do to help stop the abuse of animals used in experiments. Here are five steps you can take.
PETA’s exciting new national anti-vivisection ad campaign tells it like it is: If you call it medical research, you can get away with murder. And April’s nominees for Vivisector of the Month are a case in point. They are also so close in heinousness it’s going to be a tough fight to call. Here are … Read more »
So long, rat torture! After a year-long PETA campaign and complaints from students and our supporters, a neuroscience class at the University of Texas–Dallas dropped a deadly classroom experiment on rats from its curriculum. Previously, students in the class had to drill holes into rats’ skulls, cause brain damage with toxic chemicals, force the rats … Read more »
