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Amid Probe by Feds, Charles River Fights Transparency, Pays Execs Millions, Calls Monkeys ‘Pests’

PETA learned that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is poking around Charles River Laboratories in a new probe.

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See What PETA Did to Shut Down a Horrific Swiss Experiment on Birds

A Swiss experimenter wanted to drill holes into the skulls of birds in preposterous and deadly experiments—until PETA scientists helped shut him down.

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Reuters Report: Top Federal Official Steps Down Following PETA Exposé

After PETA obtained documents that show how U.S. Department of Agriculture leaders failed beagles at Envigo, a top official is leaving!

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How AI and VR Are Saving Animals From Experiments

The use of new technology could lead to one of the biggest breakthroughs in scientific research: an end to experiments on animals.

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How to Answer if Someone Asks, ‘Why Do People Hate PETA?’

Hating on PETA won’t change the facts: Countless animals are suffering, and we have the power to help them.

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PETA Scientists to Present at 2023 Society of Toxicology Meeting in Nashville

At the SOT 62nd Annual Meeting, PETA scientists will be co-chairing sessions, giving oral presentations, presenting posters, hosting mentoring sessions, and more.

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Why Is PETA Urging President Biden to Fire These Top USDA Officials?

PETA and a host of other animal rights groups are calling for President Joe Biden to take this urgent action to help ensure that disasters like Envigo don’t occur again.

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PETA Supporter to Reveal Animal Testing Horror to GenMont Shareholders

The shocking truth about GenMont Biotech—including cruel experiments and questionable company claims—was revealed at its annual shareholder meeting.

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See How These Top Oscar®️ Nominees Can Help End Monkey Experiments

PETA is gifting this year’s top Oscar® nominees a way to support their necks AND primate rights.

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Cruel and Pointless Experiments on Animals Worsen Gender Inequality

As we recognize International Women’s Day (March 8), we should also acknowledge the disparity in funding for research focused on women’s health concerns vs. men’s.

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PETA Scientists Join International Coalition Working to End Cosmetics Tests on Animals

PETA scientists have joined the International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety, a group championing the use of non-animal testing methods.

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NIH-Funded Scam Facility Shut Down; 108 Monkeys Seized in Colombia

The largest rescue operation in the history of the Colombian Office of the Attorney General liberated 108 sick monkeys from an NIH-funded hellhole. Meanwhile, NIH remains silent.

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Incompetent Staff Increase Animal Body Count at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Laboratories

PETA demands that animal welfare violators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital face swift and meaningful repercussions to stem the tide of neglect and violence in its laboratories.

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LSU Bird Experimenter Calls This Violence ‘Science’—PETA Calls Her Bluff

LSU’s Christine Lattin flooded birds with hormones, terrorized them with predator sounds, and killed them. Her violence isn’t science—help end it today.

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Did Agnès Lacreuse Lie to Get Taxpayer Money for Monkey Experiments?

A notorious University of Massachusetts–Amherst experimenter may have lied on a grant application to secure taxpayer money for bogus experiments on monkeys.

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PETA’s Milestones for Animals: 1980 to Now
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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?”

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

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