PETA Wants Kansas State University and Ceva Animal Health to Examine Their Ties to Laboratory Cited by Feds

For Immediate Release:
May 12, 2025

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

In letters sent today, PETA urges Kansas State University and Ceva Animal Health to carefully consider their business relationship with Red Beast Enterprises Inc., also known as High Quality Research—a Colorado animal experimentation laboratory that the U.S. Department of Agriculture just cited for more than 200 alleged violations of 11 federal Animal Welfare Act regulations.

The federal inspection of High Quality Research was prompted by a PETA complaint and video footage from a nearly seven-month undercover investigation revealing that sick cats and dogs were left to suffer without veterinary care, were denied pain relief following surgeries, and that dogs were crudely “debarked” with gynecological forceps, among other horrors. The company’s president refused to allow elderly and ailing animals to be adopted because experimenters weren’t “done with them.”

“Surely no reputable body would wish to be associated with a laboratory that cut dogs’ vocal cords without pain medication and ignored animals with agonizing eye injuries and other painful ailments?” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA calls on every client of High Quality Research to reconsider doing business with this noncompliant mess of a company.”

According to published papers, staff at Colorado State University, the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and IDEXX Laboratories have participated in or “overseen” experiments on animals at High Quality Research.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.