therockhandle / CC The following is a guest post from peta2’s Ryan As those of you who have been keeping up with your NCAA “March Madness” brackets will know, this year’s college basketball championship series is down to the final four schools, all vying for the top spot. Unfortunately, they’re all losers. I say … Read more »
media.photobucket / CC As a Midwestern gal, I would like to take you on a quick, two-stop, cruelty-free tour of my section of the U.S. It’s a little something I’m calling the Midwest Victory Tour. Sometimes I feel as though this part of the country gets a bum rap, so this tour is to … Read more »
Longtime PETA supporter Judith Yeargin fought hard not only in her 30-year battle against breast cancer but also against the use of animals in experiments. That’s why Judith, who died on March 2, left her body to the New York University Langone Medical Center (NYUMC) She hoped to spare some of the countless animals who … Read more »
One of the monkeys who was abused for experiments at ONPRC It’s been awhile since we last mentioned the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC). But even though ONPRC hasn’t been in our blog, it’s been very much on our minds, and there are encouraging new developments to report. For those of you who have … Read more »
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof usually writes about Darfur and other far-off lands, but this week, he ventured into America’s heartland to talk about a plague that is afflicting a small town in Indiana that happens to be home to factory hog farms. The plague is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, aka “flesh-eating bacteria.” You can … Read more »
Over the past 16 months, PETA has waged a relentless campaign to end the military’s archaic trauma-training exercises. In these exercises, thousands of live goats and pigs are shot, stabbed, cut apart, and burned, and monkeys are poisoned with nerve chemicals. We called on the Department of Defense (DoD) to investigate the military’s methods immediately, … Read more »
thailand / CC No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu. This is the second blog in two days in which we’ve reported that primates have taken aim at humans—literally. In the latest instance, a monkey in Thailand—fed up with performing the thankless task of climbing coconut trees to retrieve fruit for his owner to sell—apparently launched … Read more »
In case it’s never been said before, I’m going to go ahead and say it: Colorado activists rock! Activists in Colorado Springs showed that they are fed up with Fort Carson for stabbing and reportedly burning and shooting live goats in bloody trauma-training exercises that attempt to mimic human battlefield injuries. They staked out a … Read more »
olifantenhuis / CC On Sunday, a 45-year-old elephant named Annabel was euthanized after falling into a ditch that surrounded her compound at Emmen Zoo in the Netherlands. For more than two and a half hours, zoo workers tried to help the struggling elephant pull herself out of the ditch. Ultimately, firefighters used a truck to … Read more »
After our recent demonstration in New Haven to let residents know that Yale is spending millions of taxpayer dollars torturing monkeys, the university wasn’t exactly ready to throw open its doors and give guided tours to people who wanted to find out more. Well, Yale’s secretive vivisectors may have been a bit surprised on their … Read more »
Back in December, we announced the winners of our annual “Proggy” awards, which recognize animal-friendly people, companies, and products. One of those companies is CeeTox, a Michigan firm that develops humane alternatives to cruel and archaic animal tests. Well, the good folks at the Kalamazoo Gazette just did a nice story about CeeTox and the … Read more »
Is your sweetie sweet on animals? Don’t say that we at the PETA Files never gave you anything. Check out these Cupid-approved, cruelty-free gifts from PETA’s catalog: Scrum-diddly-umptious Vegan ChocolatesEnsure that it will be a very happy Valentine’s Day with a big box full of edible aphrodisiacs. Shiny-Sparkly for Your Honey BunnyNothing says … Read more »
yimg / CC When former Dallas cheerleader and sports broadcaster Bonnie Jill Laflin discovered that a Tennessee Titans cheerleader was involved in the gruesome animal testing biz, she got out more than her pom-poms! It was discovered recently that Titans cheerleader Melissa Hodges is working in an animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University’s Kennedy Center, and … Read more »
court-records / CC Our awesome friends over at PETA Europe have some exciting news! With their help and funding, new skin irritation tests that do not use animals have been successfully validated to replace the use of rabbits completely! This will save thousands of rabbits. This wonderful news means that animals will not be used … Read more »
ucdavis / CC This is an awesome year for many reasons (have you seen our slideshow?), and a great one has to be today’s victory over cruel animal tests! Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed with PETA and ruled that no further animal testing is needed to declare that a natural plant-based sweetener … Read more »
