Red Beast Enterprises Cited Again by USDA: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
January 2, 2026

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Daniel Paden regarding a just-posted U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report, which reveals more serious animal welfare violations in the laboratories of Red Beast Enterprises, also known as High Quality Research. According to the just-obtained report—which the company apparently appealed, long delaying its release—employees failed to observe red and inflamed tissue on and between the toes of dogs held at the animal testing facility, depriving them of veterinary care. Following PETA’s undercover investigation, the company was cited in a damning inspection report that documented more than 200 examples of egregious violations of 11 federal Animal Welfare Act regulations, including warehousing dogs and cats in bleak conditions, leaving animals to suffer from untreated ailments, and routinely subjecting dogs to agonizing ‘debarking’ mutilations without pain relief.

Infecting dogs and cats with viruses and force-feeding them test chemicals is business as usual for contract testing company Red Beast Enterprises, but incompetence and a culture of disregard compound the animals’ suffering. According to a newly posted federal inspection report, the company failed to provide necessary veterinary care to three dogs—Boris, Landing, and Jeep—for reddened skin on and between their toes, a condition inspectors noted could indicate irritation, infection, trauma, or other medical problems that may cause discomfort or pain. Red Beast has demonstrated that it cannot or will not meet even the most basic animal welfare standards, underscoring the urgent need for the company to surrender all animals for placement in good homes, and for our nation to abandon archaic and cruel tests on animals and transition fully to sophisticated, human-relevant, non-animal testing methods.

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.

The facility’s veterinarian said that Kegan had both “cherry eye” and an ulcer—which he confirmed would cause a human to “writh[e] on the floor in pain”—but he denied her any pain relief. This is a photo from PETA’s undercover investigation of Red Beast Enterprises last year.