March 18, 2016 Following appeals from PETA India and Union Minister Maneka Gandhi, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has amended its regulations to prevent testing on animals for new drug registrations when complete data already exist for drugs approved abroad. Because of the vast physiological and biochemical differences between humans and the rats, … Read more »
March 6, 2016 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced plans to stop requiring that animals be used in tests that subject them to painful irritation and death caused by toxic chemicals absorbed through the skin. The EPA is exploring ways to change its pesticide testing and classification system to align with those of other … Read more »
March 4, 2016 Following discussions with PETA’s scientists, Health Canada stated that it would end its requirement of year-long testing on dogs to study pesticide effects. Dogs used in these cruel tests were forced to eat pesticide-laced food or inhale pesticide fumes every day for a year before being killed and dissected. PETA provided evidence … Read more »
December 15, 2015 Following an intensive yearlong PETA campaign, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it’s ending its cruel maternal deprivation and psychological experiments on baby monkeys, in which infant monkeys were torn away from their mothers at birth to traumatize them, terrorized with loud sounds and fake snakes, intimidated by human … Read more »
November 25, 2015 When PETA learned from a whistleblower that government contractor SIMMEC Training Solutions was regularly trucking in military personnel to shoot and kill pigs on the property of a San Diego County horse ranch, we investigated the allegations and discovered that the cruel courses likely violated local zoning ordinances. We quickly filed a … Read more »
November 25, 2015 When PETA learned from a whistleblower that government contractor Assessment and Training Solutions Consulting Corporation (ATSCC) had regularly been shooting and killing pigs for military training courses in Suffolk, Virginia, we investigated the allegations and discovered that the cruel courses likely violated local zoning ordinances. We quickly filed a complaint, and after … Read more »
November 17, 2015 Following a month-long PETA campaign that included more than 100,000 e-mails and numerous critical social media posts, scathing media stories, and phone call blitzes to the company’s U.S. offices, Kikkoman—the most popular soy sauce company in the U.S. and Japan—ended its long-standing practice of force-feeding mice, rabbits, and other animals soy sauce … Read more »
November 17, 2015 Following the release of PETA’s shocking military-training exposé—which documented the stabbing, shooting, and mutilation of live animals and uncovered allegations of sexual abuse and drugging of soldiers and illegal experimentation on them by Deployment Medicine International (DMI), the self-proclaimed “largest trainer of US military forces in operational medicine”—the federal government banned DMI … Read more »
September 30, 2015 Following a PETA complaint and e-mails from thousands of our supporters, the University of Georgia announced that it will no longer conduct surgical training courses in which dozens of healthy beagles and other animals have holes crudely cut into their throats, chests, and limbs.
September 30, 2015 Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) programs throughout China, Cyprus, Greece, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates stopped cutting apart and killing animals in their courses following a PETA donation of 40 state-of-the-art TraumaMan surgical simulators. In 2014, PETA donated 67 TraumaMan models to end animal use in ATLS programs … Read more »
September 30, 2015 Following PETA’s eight-month eyewitness investigation of Primate Products, Inc. (PPI), a company that imports monkeys and sells them to laboratories, federal authorities cited it for more than 27 serious animal-welfare violations related to inadequate veterinary care, neglect, violent handling, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, and monkeys’ physical and psychological suffering. The damning evidence … Read more »
September 16,2015 Following complaints filed by PETA, a brief public campaign, and criticism from international media, the Institute of Environmental Science and Research, the University of Otago, and the University of Auckland announced that they’ll no longer use live pigs for crude forensics experiments in which the animals were repeatedly shot in the head at … Read more »
July 1, 2015 Barilla, the largest pasta company in the world, issued a new policy banning all animal testing for its products and ingredients after being contacted by PETA about the company’s published studies detailing cruel experiments on rats in order to evaluate potential health claims about wheat. After PETA explained the experiments’ irrelevance to … Read more »
Following an appeal by PETA, Kentucky’s attorney general ruled that the University of Kentucky violated the Kentucky Open Records Act by refusing to provide PETA with records related to its use of animals in classroom laboratories and training exercises. The university must now provide PETA with protocols describing classroom experiments on animals, which PETA will … Read more »
Following years of urging from PETA, the Miami-Dade school district—the fourth-largest district in the United States—has made the compassionate decision to ban cat dissection across all schools. PETA met with the school board, provided teachers with training in computer-based virtual dissections, and donated interactive cat-anatomy software for use throughout the district.
