Victory! Pharma Giant Pfizer Bans the Cruel Forced Swim Test
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Victory! Pharma Giant Pfizer Bans the Cruel Forced Swim Test

Pfizer employees had used 1,270 mice and rats in forced swim test experiments since 1991. Here’s how pressure from PETA made the difference.

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PETA Takes On China for Smashing Animals in Bloody Car-Crash Tests
Experimenters at China’s Institute for Traffic Medicine used a device to crush the hind legs of sensitive live rats, inflicting horrific trauma on them
PETA Takes On China for Smashing Animals in Bloody Car-Crash Tests

These experimenters are fastening abused, frightened animals into car seats and crashing them into walls until their bodies are bloody and mangled.

Victory! New York City’s Foie Gras Ban Clears Major Hurdle
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Victory! New York City’s Foie Gras Ban Clears Major Hurdle

The foie gras industry fought hard to stop it—but after years of advocacy from PETA and others, a major legal decision just changed everything for ducks in NYC.

PETA’s True Halloween Horror Stories About Cats Allowed to Roam Outdoors
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PETA’s True Halloween Horror Stories About Cats Allowed to Roam Outdoors

Do you allow you cat to roam outdoors unsupervised? These true, gruesome stories about “outdoor cats” will certainly scare you straight.

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Dogs Eating Each Other, Others Dying in the Cold: This Is ‘No-Kill’
Dogs Eating Each Other, Others Dying in the Cold: This Is ‘No-Kill’

Having a low euthanasia rate but a sky-high rate of cases in which animals die in freezing temperatures, fight and injure each other, or suffer without vet care is not success. It’s cruelty.

Watch These Animals Shed Their Worries After Being Rescued by Animal Rahat
Watch These Animals Shed Their Worries After Being Rescued by Animal Rahat

Do you have time to watch formerly abused animals roll around in dirt baths of pure joy, as well as sharing kisses and quality cuddle time? Of course you do.

VIDEO: Children Scream As Bear Charges Abusive Circus Trainer
Children Scream As Bear Goes After Circus Trainer
VIDEO: Children Scream As Bear Charges Abusive Circus Trainer

A bear forced to walk on his hind legs and use a prop attacked a handler at a crowded circus—more proof that animals aren’t meant to perform pointless stunts for humans.

Huge PETA Win! World’s Largest Retailer, Walmart, Ends Live Fish Sales
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Huge PETA Win! World’s Largest Retailer, Walmart, Ends Live Fish Sales

In a monumental win for often-overlooked animals, and following a decade-long PETA effort, the world’s largest retailer is ending the sale of live fish!

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PETA to NIMH: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is—End Animal Tests
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PETA to NIMH: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is—End Animal Tests

The National Institute of Mental Health has called various animal tests all but worthless while spending millions in taxpayer dollars on these senselessly cruel experiments.

Hottest Reason to Go Vegan? Watch PETA’s ‘Last Longer’ Ad
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Hottest Reason to Go Vegan? Watch PETA’s ‘Last Longer’ Ad

Turns out, the cholesterol in meat, eggs, and dairy products slows the flow of blood to all the body’s organs—not just the heart.

Will Dictionary.com Join PETA in Dismantling Speciesism?
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Will Dictionary.com Join PETA in Dismantling Speciesism?

Dictionary.com has a responsibility to provide accurate and comprehensive definitions that serve people and don’t mislead them.

PETA Breakthrough! NIH Embraces Modern, Human-Relevant Sepsis Research
PETA Breakthrough! NIH Embraces Modern, Human-Relevant Sepsis Research

After more than a decade of PETA agitation, the National Institutes of Health has cancelled its cruel sepsis experiments on beagles.

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Japan’s Largest Flavor Company Ends Crude Animal Tests!
Japan’s Largest Flavor Company Ends Crude Animal Tests!

You wouldn’t think that flavors and aromas added to foods would be tested on animals. And with PETA’s efforts, fewer and fewer of them are.

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‘Sit. Stay. Beg for Mercy.’ See PETA’s Bold New Blow to TAMU.
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‘Sit. Stay. Beg for Mercy.’ See PETA’s Bold New Blow to TAMU.

PETA is igniting a media firestorm in the Lone Star State in our latest blow to Texas A&M University’s abusive and deadly dog lab.

PETA Does it Again! Macy’s Finally Ends All Fur Sales
PETA Does it Again! Macy’s Finally Ends All Fur Sales

No one can outlast PETA and our activists. After decades of protests, eye-catching demos, and hundreds of thousands of other actions, Macy’s has gone fur-free.

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