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Animal Experiments Are Coal in a Solar World: Join the 21st Century!

Animal experimenters are stuck in the amber of time. They refuse to adopt technological advances, endangering everyone and helping no one.

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PETA Scientist Catches University of Washington Official LYING About COVID-19 Research

A University of Washington official stated that experiments conducted at its primate center were responsible for Moderna’s successful COVID-19 vaccine. It was a lie.

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WATCH: Mice Struggle to Crawl After Experimenters Crush Spinal Cords

At Germany’s Ruhr-University Bochum, experimenters mutilated mice in useless and unreliable tests. Find out how YOU can help advance research!

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PETA Uproots Monkey Experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s Twisted ‘Family Tree’

How do new scientists learn to think of living animals as mere lab equipment? They’re taught detachment and speciesism by their teachers.

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NIMH Director Loses the Plot in Desperate Defense of Bogus Experiments on Animals

Once more for the people in the back: Experiments on animals have nothing to do with human health. Here’s why PETA is taking on the National Institute of Mental Health.

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WATCH: Three Powerful Videos From Families Dealing With Disease

There is no justifiable reason why millions of mice and dogs suffer in laboratories while our loved ones suffer in hospitals. You’ll want to hear these heartbreaking stories.

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20 Times PETA Smashed Experiments and Saved Animals in 2020

2020 may have blown chunks, but PETA gutted animal testing like never before! Relive 20 of our favorite victories from this year that saved millions of animals.

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‘Guinea Pig’ and ‘COVID Vaccine’ Don’t Belong in the Same Sentence
‘Guinea Pig’ and ‘COVID Vaccine’ Don’t Belong in the Same Sentence

Humans can consent to being tested on—guinea pigs can’t. So to the news outlets perpetuating speciesism, we’ve got some news, too: Words matter—stop using anti-animal language!

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Texas A&M Violates Dogs’ Right to Live Freely, PETA’s Right to Speak Up for Them

“Imagine having your body left to science while you’re still in it.” Texas A&M doesn’t want us imagining it—and the school will violate the U.S. Constitution to try to get its way.

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WATCH: Two PETA Investigations, 20 Years Apart, Reveal Same Misery for Monkeys

The Oregon National Primate Research Center has come up with many demented ways to torture monkeys on the taxpayer’s dime, but what never changes is that it treats monkeys miserably. Help us shut it down.

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Speciesism Is Driving This Half-Billion-Year-Old Species Extinct

Horseshoe crabs have survived mass extinctions and ice ages. But they’ve never met a danger as big as the speciesist humans who want their blood.

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Activists Arrested, Dragged Off Field Protesting TAMU Dog Experiments
VIDEO: Activists Arrested, Dragged Off Field Protesting TAMU Dog Experiments

The most talked-about play at Texas A&M’s most recent football game wasn’t made by a player—it was made by PETA supporters rushing the field, urging TAMU to shut down its dog lab.

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The Depraved Career of Ned Kalin, Monkey Tormenter

Ned Kalin of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center continues a long and cruel legacy of monkey torment and torture. This is his story.

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The Numbers Don’t Lie: NIH Is Financially Bloated, Ineffective, Cruel

At the National Institutes of Health, tax money is squandered and cruelty rules the day. PETA has the numbers to prove it.

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Epic Fail: Desperate Monkey Experimenters Try to Justify Their Own Existence

As modern science moves away from archaic and cruel tests on animals, experimenters are getting desperate. You won’t believe their latest desperate ploy for attention.

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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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