We’re betting that when that shameless front for the cruel animal experimentation industry, the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR), started putting up a series of misleading and offensive billboards, it wasn’t expecting them to get a makeover: Click picture for larger image While daredevils have been giving FBR a piece of their minds, PETA has … Read more »
PETA’s exciting new national anti-vivisection ad campaign tells it like it is: If you call it medical research, you can get away with murder. And April’s nominees for Vivisector of the Month are a case in point. They are also so close in heinousness it’s going to be a tough fight to call. Here are … Read more »
More than six months after PETA released documentation of the horrors at animal testing hellhole Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. (PLRS)—evidence so shocking that within a week the laboratory had released its dogs and cats to rescue groups up and down the East Coast and shut its doors in shame—the abusers still have not been brought … Read more »
Lily Tomlin is always looking for signs of intelligent life, but she hasn’t yet found it in the University of Michigan‘s (UM) survival flight course. The Detroit native recently wrote to UM to ask its officials to stop allowing cats and pigs to be abused in cruel and deadly flight training exercises and to replace the animals … Read more »
muffet/cc by 2.0 We are very happy to report that as a result of pressure from PETA and more than 25,000 of our supporters, Utah’s Primary Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) has announced that it is canceling plans to torment cats in a cruel and archaic training exercise! As it had in previous years, PCMC planned … Read more »
Hugs was one of the roughly 250 animals who were surrendered by PLRS. Even though The Hasselhoffs was canceled after just two episodes, 2010 still turned out to be a pretty great year. Thirty-three Chilean miners were rescued after being trapped underground for more than two months, and dog guardians were introduced to the amazing stuffing-free … Read more »
Pamela Anderson is unstoppable! Here are just some of the things this angel for animals did on behalf of PETA this year: Jumping through hoops to fight against animal abuse, she urged Chile’s prez to ban animal circuses and turned a Dancing With the Stars paso doble into an opportunity to speak out against bullfighting! “Her … Read more »
Picking the top 10 PETA Files blog posts of the past year was harder than figuring out the plot of Inception, but we’ve narrowed it down to these posts, which cover everything from Lady Gaga’s meat dress to our “Pope Condom” campaign: PETA’s investigation of international animal dealer U.S. Global Exotics leads to the record-setting … Read more »
Bob Barker is so active for animals that in just one day—today—we received word that his efforts have paid off significantly in two very different ways. We were still popping champagne corks over the news (which NASA can deny until it’s blue in the face) that NASA’s radiation experiments have been canned—thanks in part to … Read more »
UPDATE: Statement released from Brookhaven National Laboratory: “NASA has informed Brookhaven that a proposal involving primate research at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory on the Brookhaven Lab site should be removed from consideration for experimental time at the facility.” Well, folks, you did it. After scores of protests and more than 100,000 letters, phone calls, and … Read more »
Just when you thought experiments on animals couldn’t get any more cruel or absurd, the good folks at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) managed to come up with an experiment on baby monkeys that’s so cruel and ridiculous it might even give Harry “Monster Mother” Harlow pause. ONPRC experimenter Kevin Grove is spending … Read more »
shorts and longs/CC by 2.0 Not to brag or anything, but guess which organization near and dear to your hearts is a “Genius”? If you said PETA, you’re right—at least according to L2, a think tank for digital innovation, which ranked PETA number one among advocacy groups and number three overall in their first annual … Read more »
First, Professional Laboratory Research Services shut its doors just days after PETA released the findings of our disturbing undercover investigation there. Now, Covance’s horrendous Vienna, Va., laboratory, which PETA investigated five years ago, is closing up shop. During PETA’s 11-month investigation at Covance, our investigator documented that workers struck, choked, and screamed obscenities at frightened and “uncooperative” … Read more »
Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys. The price is wrong. That’s the message that PETA pal Bob Barker sent to NASA chief Charles Bolden in a letter today … Read more »
Brian Gratwicke/CC by 2.0 Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys. PETA has obtained government documents showing that in August 2010, the Brookhaven National Laboratory—where NASA has been planning … Read more »
