A high-pressure PETA campaign has convinced the National Watermelon Promotion Board to stop starving, suffocating, killing, and slicing open animals in experiments to promote the sale of watermelons. In letters to its leadership, PETA called out the board for bankrolling the deadly tests on mice and rats. PETA supporters sent 18,000 e-mails urging a ban … Read more »
Global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA. The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any … Read more »
The 9th Circuit Court issued a landmark decision holding that members of the University of Washington’s animal experimentation oversight committee have no constitutional right to keep their identities secret. The decision in favor of PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network reverses a preliminary injunction granted by a Seattle-based United States District Court. This marks … Read more »
After a push from PETA, five prominent food and beverage companies—PepsiCo. Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, Campbell Soup Company, Fresh Innovations, and Sensient Technologies—are closing their checkbooks and refusing to fund cruel and deadly experiments on animals. The move comes after PETA contacted company leadership, informing them that their money was being used to kill animals … Read more »
Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi confirmed that it no longer subjects animals to the cruel and useless forced swim test. The announcement follows a campaign by PETA entities worldwide that included outreach from our scientists and more than 440,000 e-mails from members and supporters. The statement on the company’s website reads, “Sanofi does not use the Porsolt … Read more »
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which publishes guidance on the chemical tests used by its 38 member countries, published an approach that PETA scientists coauthored with other experts that assesses the cancer risk of pesticides without force-feeding them to mice or rats for their entire lives, sparing hundreds of animals each time this … Read more »
Charles River Laboratories, a multibillion-dollar company and the largest importer of monkeys into the U.S., buckled under pressure from PETA and Brazoria County, Texas, residents and scrapped its plans to build what would have been the largest monkey warehouse in the Western Hemisphere. The prison was to have caged up to 43,000 primates, all destined … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and thousands of our supporters, AELF FlightService’s Maleth Aero airline stopped stuffing sensitive monkeys into tiny wooden crates, locking them in cargo holds, and flying them around the world to be used in cruel and pointless experiments. The airline’s representative admitted to PETA that they were shocked when nearly 115,000 PETA … Read more »
The University of Washington (UW) decided to euthanize a monkey who, weeks after being irradiated nearly to death by UW experimenter Fritzie Arce-McShane, lost all quality of life. Arce-McShane willfully and repeatedly violated her approved protocol and deceived veterinary staff. This decision follows PETA’s request to the university to stop the study. The other six … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded researchers free equipment and human cell–based tissue models that can be used to study the effects of substances on human lungs instead of using animals in deadly inhalation tests. The Science Consortium also won an award for a presentation at an international conference, shining a light on how researchers … Read more »
The National Mango Board will no longer support starving, killing, and slicing open animals in cruel, pointless experiments. This decision follows a high-pressure campaign from PETA, which included letters, thousands of e-mails from our supporters, and public advertisements calling out the board for funding the torment of mice and rats apparently just to boost mango … Read more »
In a historic win for PETA, free speech, and government accountability, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the First Amendment by blocking criticism of animal testing. The decision comes in response to a lawsuit brought by lawyers at the PETA Foundation, … Read more »
Antibodies serve as essential research tools, but many researchers produce them using animals instead of adopting modern non-animal technology. As experts in the field, PETA Science Consortium International e.V. was invited to publish a paper in a scientific journal focused on advancing the use of animal-free antibodies.
In a huge win for animals and government transparency, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in PETA’s favor and ordered that Louisiana State University (LSU) can’t keep public records about Christine Lattin’s deadly experiments on sparrows hidden. The university has fought PETA to keep Lattin’s records secret since 2019, saying that it had no records or … Read more »
After pressure and complaints from PETA, a sleep fragmentation experiment that University of Massachusetts–Amherst experimenter Agnès Lacreuse had moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Wisconsin National Primate Research Center ended. UW-Madison had received approval to subject 32 marmosets to 24 nights, over two months, of loud, blaring noises to wake them repeatedly. Instead, six marmoset … Read more »
