September 2015 Following a PETA campaign, human physiology courses at the University of Colorado-Boulder replaced classroom animal laboratories in which students cut off frogs’ heads and cut open live rats in order to apply drugs to their exposed, beating hearts. More than 600 animals were used every three years for these experiments, which have now … Read more »
July 2014 Following discussions with PETA, the Michigan State Board of Education adopted a progressive dissection-choice policy that allows more than 1.57 million students throughout the state to opt out of cruel classroom animal dissection and instead use modern computer software and other humane methods.
July 2014 Thanks to efforts by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and its members, the European Commission appears to be set to reduce the number of animals used in each reproductive toxicity test from 2,600 to 1,500, sparing more than 15% of the animals slated to be used in Europe’s REACH program—the largest animal … Read more »
July 2014 U.S. federal laws require that every batch of rabies vaccine be tested to ensure its potency. This means that large numbers of mice are subjected to extremely painful experiments, which are often so inaccurate they have to be repeated several times in order to get a meaningful result, killing as many as 70,000 … Read more »
June 2014 After hearing from PETA and its supporters, the Bourbonnais Friendship Festival made the compassionate decision to cancel Nosey’s appearance at the fair. Thanks to kind people like you, Nosey was saved from another tedious week of walking in circles with riders on her back.
June 2014 After learning that the San Antonio Zoo hastily removed more than 230 egret nests, which resulted in the death of at least four egrets, PETA campaigned to stop the zoo from removing more birds from the site. The zoo decided to wait until after nesting season to make the site less attractive to … Read more »
June 2014 In an episode of the Animal Planet series Call of the Wildman, the show’s star, Ernie Brown Jr., chases down a zebra who had supposedly escaped from a fenced-in yard and roughly wrestles the animal to the ground. PETA learned that the Grévy’s zebra—who’s protected under the Endangered Species Act—had been drugged prior … Read more »
May 2014 PETA and Animal Beta Project provided Texas authorities with evidence of a so-called “crush video” outfit producing videos of rabbits, chickens, and other animals who were being tortured. One participant was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and her alleged cohort will soon face trial.
