Following a widespread public outcry after PETA released a video of callous students dancing with dead cats slated for dissection, top-ranked Harding Charter Preparatory High School in Oklahoma City has ended cruel cat dissections. Through its educational grants program, PETA has offered to donate humane teaching tools, such as digital dissection software, that have been … Read more »
June 1, 2015 PETA scientists and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. intervened to appeal a European testing case in which the lives of 1,300 animals were at stake. The appeals board ruled in our favor and set a new standard by requiring that all existing data be considered before requiring animal testing. This change … Read more »
May 2015 Following repeated requests from PETA and PETA Asia, Japan Airlines announced that it will no longer ship monkeys to laboratories or laboratory suppliers. The announcement came after PETA notified the company that a Japanese animal-experimentation trade journal had reported that Japan Airlines was actively involved in the transport of monkeys from the Philippines … Read more »
May 29, 2015 The Thea Bowman Leadership Academy’s science department is now cruelty-free, thanks to a software donation from PETA. The kind decision to replace crude animal dissection will spare the lives of countless frogs, save the school money, and provide students with a more effective and humane learning experience. Studies have repeatedly found that interactive … Read more »
April 2015 In a resounding victory for animals and freedom of information, Wisconsin legislators have killed a sneaky proposal that would have allowed the University of Wisconsin (UW) to exempt the records of its cruel experiments on animals from open-records laws. The bill died shortly after state lawmakers began receiving hundreds of e-mails opposing the … Read more »
February 28, 2015 A groundbreaking study by PETA scientists, published in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics, determined that animal use at leading federally funded U.S. laboratories rose by a staggering 73 percent in recent years—despite growing public opposition to animal experimentation, mounting evidence that results from animal studies are often not applicable to humans, … Read more »
January 2015 Following more than three years of campaigning by PETA, PETA Foundation U.K., and local activists, the Norwegian government has, for the first time, rejected an application by the Norwegian Armed Forces to shoot, stab, and break the bones of live pigs in crude medical training exercises on the grounds that non-animal training methods … Read more »
January 30, 2015 Accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International has long been trumpeted as being the “gold standard” of animal welfare in laboratories—even though investigations by PETA have documented miserable conditions and abysmal treatment of animals in AAALAC-accredited laboratories. In a first-of-its-kind study, PETA scientists analyzed government … Read more »
January 30, 2015 In response to complaints filed by PETA regarding the National Institutes of Health’s cruel maternal-deprivation experiments on baby monkeys, the agency made a number of adjustments to the experiments, including discontinuing stressful brain scans, painful spinal taps, and some blood draws on newborn monkeys. The agency also informed PETA that it’s planning … Read more »
Following an extensive PETA campaign to expose and end cruel and archaic brain experiments on cats at the University of Wisconsin–Madison—which included an open records lawsuit, demonstrations, ad campaigns, federal complaints, pleas from Bill Maher and James Cromwell, and more than 369,000 protest letters from the public—the studies were ended and the laboratory closed its … Read more »
December 2014 Citronella bug sprays were scheduled to be phased out in Canada by the end of 2014 unless manufacturers provided Health Canada with additional safety data derived from toxicity tests on animals. After PETA sent letters informing the agency that citronella bug sprays are considered safe by the U.S. government and not required to … Read more »
December 2014 When PETA U.K. learned that the agency responsible for overseeing the largest animal testing program in the world had failed to investigate numerous cases in which seemingly avoidable animal testing had been conducted, PETA U.K., with the help of PETA U.S. scientists, submitted a detailed official complaint. After two years of filing amended … Read more »
November 2014 In a groundbreaking decision, following years of campaigning by PETA—including letters, e-mails, and complaints from PETA, military and civilian medical experts, and concerned citizens—the Department of Defense (DOD) determined that “suitable simulation alternatives can replace the use of live animals” in six major medical educational areas, including for certain trauma and other surgical … Read more »
October 2014 PETA had spent years trying to get paper and cleaning products company Seventh Generation to stop lobbying for legislation that would result in tens of millions of animals being poisoned in new chemical tests and instead support reforms that would require animal tests to be used only as a last resort. When Seventh … Read more »
October 2014 After intensive efforts led by PETA India’s science policy adviser, and with support from PETA U.S. and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare officially banned animal-tested cosmetics and their ingredients from being imported into India. PETA India, with the help of PETA entities worldwide, challenged … Read more »
