Following talks with PETA, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has dramatically reversed its stance and confirmed that it no longer has plans to support or fund animal testing. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation—the country’s eighth-largest philanthropic foundation, which focuses on the advancement of children—was founded in 1930 and has more than $7.6 billion in assets. This sea … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. presented on its work to replace the use of rabbits, birds, mice, and rats in painful and deadly pesticide tests at a North American Free Trade Agreement meeting that included high-level government officials from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
After PETA pointed out to Swilled Dog Hard Cider that the apple pomace (a byproduct of cider production) that it had donated to a West Virginia University experimenter was being used in cruel tests—in which baby rats were fed a diet with or without the substance, starved overnight, killed by suffocation, and dissected—the West Virginia–based … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. donated $50,000 worth of equipment to the Institute for In Vitro Sciences—a laboratory conducting animal-free test methods—and partnered with Imperial Brands PLC, Altria Client Services, British American Tobacco PLC, and Philip Morris International Inc. to donate an additional machine worth $110,000. This equipment uses human cells instead of animals … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk A/S have become the latest major pharmaceutical companies to ban the widely discredited forced swim test, in which mice and other small animals are placed in inescapable beakers filled with water and made to swim to keep from drowning, supposedly to shed light on human depression.
After discussions with PETA, Dermablend Professional has become the first L’Oréal-owned brand to be added to the PETA Beauty Without Bunnies cruelty-free list! Dermablend has also reformulated some of its products so that the entire brand will be vegan-friendly, demonstrating the company’s dedication to producing wonderful products without harming animals.
Brazil is the latest country to drop a pesticide test in which dogs are repeatedly poisoned over the course of a year and then killed. PETA scientists have already helped persuade the U.S., Canada, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea to stop requiring this unethical and unscientific test.
Since 1993, Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has published or funded at least 12 papers and submitted at least one patent application that describe using the forced swim test on a total of more than 1,300 mice and rats. But after hearing from PETA and PETA Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim agreed to ban the test.
In March 2019, PETA filed a lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts–Amherst after it refused to hand over video records of experiments done on monkeys, despite being instructed to do so by the state. The case reached a settlement, and UMass agreed to provide PETA with all of its videos of primate experiments from a … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, PETA Switzerland, and PETA Germany, Roche Pharmaceuticals has confirmed that it has ended its use of the forced swim test, in which small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and must frantically swim to keep from drowning. Between 2001 and 2018, Roche published at least 11 papers that described … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. presented a poster at the 15th International Congress of Toxicology informing scientists, many for the first time, about a program with the Food and Drug Administration that seeks to replace animals in testing. The Consortium is currently working on two projects related to this program that are intended to … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. donated $50,000 in equipment to the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, a laboratory dedicated to conducting and developing animal-free test methods. The equipment can be used to test the effects of substances on the lungs and yields more human-relevant results than the current method of forcing rats trapped in … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium has teamed up with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to organize a series of webinars on new approaches for testing chemicals without using animals. The first webinars have reached hundreds of scientists and government regulators, and more webinars are planned in this ongoing … Read more »
After nearly a year of discussions with PETA, Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd. (Nissui Group)—Japan’s second-largest fish-seller and the owner of U.S. maker of “Fish Sticks” Gorton’s Inc.—has established a new policy against using laboratory tests on animals in order to make health claims about its food products and ingredients for marketing purposes. From 2016 to … Read more »
