Regulatory Testing

USDA Fines Washington Laboratory $5K for Animal Welfare Violations

Pigs, monkeys, and beagles are suffering at Altasciences. Find out what it did to get the feds’ attention and how to help animals now.

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Empathy Over Experimentation: The Case Against the Term ‘Lab Rat’

The term “lab rat” only perpetuates speciesism and condones cruel experiments on animals. Let PETA increase your compassion for rats.

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U.S. Tax Money Pays for Cruel, Deadly, and Fraudulent Foreign Animal Tests

PETA has found even more reasons to urge your legislators to act. Let’s save lives and stop the National Institutes of Health from using our tax money to fund foreign laboratories.

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PETA Science Consortium International Shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Science Prize

PETA Science Consortium International has been shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Science Prize! Learn how its work helps replace the use of animals in toxicity testing.

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A Leap Forward: EPA Encourages Companies to Use Non-Animal Eye Tests

PETA scientists have been working with the EPA for years to replace painful eye irritation tests on rabbits with superior non-animal methods.

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2023’s Biggest Victories for Animals in Labs and How PETA Made Them Happen

In 2023, PETA’s dedicated team worked all year to shut down barbaric laboratories, advance non-animal tests, and expose the cruelty of experiments on animals.

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PETA Scientists Work to Level the Playing Field for Non-Animal Research

Good science doesn’t kill or harm animals, but animal experimentation bias is pervasive in the research community. PETA scientists are helping to eliminate it.

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PETA Scientists’ New Paper Offers Methods to Test Pesticides Without Using Live Animals

Animal tests aren’t good science—here’s how PETA scientists are challenging the status quo and advancing human-relevant testing.

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This doomed animal in a hyperbaric chamber is one of the countless rats used by University of South Florida experimenter Jay Dean to supposedly study oxygen toxicity in humans, even though human-relevant, animal-free methods are widely available.

On Navy Day, It’s Time to Celebrate Sailors by Sinking Pointless Animal Experiments

Killing animals doesn’t help members of the U.S. Navy, so why is the military branch wasting time and money on cruel experiments?

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PETA Science Group Presents Awards to Researchers Embracing Non-Animal Tests

It’s awards season when it comes to advancing animal-free science, and PETA scientists are cheering on these conscientious researchers.

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5 of the Top Animal Exploiters PETA Has Shut Down

Why isn’t PETA shut down? We wish we were—as it would mean that we had met our goal and that animals are no longer being exploited for human desires.

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delving into PETA's 'dark side,' showing an illustration of Darth Vader in a laboratory coat and holding a red lightsaber up while looking down on caged marmosets used for experimentation, each with a "Star Wars"-related name, some of whom have already been killed, all to parody the horrific experiments on monkeys at a UMass lab

Is There a ‘Dark Side’ to PETA? Board Our Starship to Shine Light on a Rebel Force

If someone asks, “What’s the dark side of PETA?” we’ve got the answer. Let us shine a lightsaber on the truth of our efforts for animal rights.

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Progress! Primate Center Director Demoted After Pressure From PETA

A primate center’s director lied in a paper and on grant applications for monkey experiments. PETA called for his removal, and today he’s no longer in charge.

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Learn How Rabbits Are Exploited in Laboratories, on Angora Wool Farms, and Elsewhere This Easter Sunday

These shocking facts about rabbits might inspire you to take action for bunnies this Easter.

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PETA Scientists to Present at 2023 Society of Toxicology Meeting in Nashville

At the SOT 62nd Annual Meeting, PETA scientists will be co-chairing sessions, giving oral presentations, presenting posters, hosting mentoring sessions, and more.

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