After discussions with PETA, Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd.—the second-largest alcoholic-beverage manufacturer in Japan and the ninth-largest one in the world—has agreed to end all experiments on animals not required by law. Since 2015, the company—which is best known in North America for Kirin Ichiban—had funded numerous such experiments, including ones in which animals were force-fed … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium presented its Early-Career Scientist Award at an international conference to a toxicologist developing a 3-dimensional model of the human liver to replace the use of rats in liver-toxicity testing. And a researcher from Argentina won this year’s award to attend a prestigious toxicology workshop where she’ll receive training to help … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Morinaga & Co.—Japan’s largest confectioner and maker of HI-CHEW candy, which is sold in the U.S.—ended all tests on animals to establish health claims about its products. During deadly experiments not required by law that were published by the company starting in 2016, nearly 100 mice and rats were force-fed, starved, … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Flowers Foods—one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States and the maker of numerous brands, including Wonder, Tastykake, and Nature’s Own—established a progressive public policy banning animal testing (which it did not previously conduct or fund) and posted the new policy on its website.
After discussions with PETA, Molson Coors Brewing Company—one of the world’s largest brewers and the maker of many beer brands, including Coors Light, Molson Canadian, and Blue Moon—established a progressive public policy banning animal testing (which it did not previously conduct or fund) unless required by law and posted the new policy on its website.
PETA Germany—advised by PETA scientists—has persuaded St. Elisabeth and St. Barbara hospital in Halle, Germany, to stop cutting open pigs’ chests in deadly surgical-training exercises and instead embrace sophisticated, non-animal teaching methods. The hospital offers an annual thoracoscopy skills training course, during which surgeons operate on live pigs before ultimately killing them. Thanks to the … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, premium global chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli has established a progressive public policy banning animal testing used to make health claims—which it did not previously conduct or fund—and posted the new policy on its website.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. sponsored—and presented information at—a workshop to push government regulators and vaccine companies to end the killing of an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 mice each year in rabies vaccine tests. One company has already succeeded in using a non-animal approach in Europe and—as a result of the workshop—it and others … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, McCain Foods, the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and other potato items, agreed to end tests on animals used to make health claims about its products. Many years ago, the company conducted and funded cruel experiments that involved locking pigs in cages, feeding them potatoes, and analyzing their feces. … Read more »
Dove—one of the world’s most widely available personal care–product brands—has banned all tests on animals anywhere in the world and been added to PETA’s Beauty Without Bunnies cruelty-free companies list! In addition, Unilever—which owns the Dove brand—has banned all tests on animals not required by law for the rest of its products and has been … Read more »
When PETA submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for inspection photos showing dozens of goats horrifically suffering in violation of the law at antibody producer Pi Bioscientific, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) refused to hand them over on the grounds that the facility would be “embarrassed.” That’s not a legal basis for keeping … Read more »
At a series of important scientific meetings, PETA scientists presented their work to prevent hundreds of birds each year from being fed pesticide-laced food in government-required tests, the results of a project to replace the use of animals in eye-irritation tests, and details of a project to end the use of rats for inhalation testing, … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Megmilk Snow Brand Co., Ltd., a major food company based in Japan, agreed to end animal tests used to make dubious health claims about its products. Previously, the company had funded and conducted cruel experiments on mice and rats, including one in which experimenters injected mice with a protein that causes … Read more »
Thousands of rabbits and even more horseshoe crabs are used in painful tests each year to test drugs and medical devices for contaminants that cause fever. The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. worked with government and testing-standards agencies to organize a workshop at which government and industry researchers brainstormed the best way to replace these … Read more »
