October 2014 Students at New York City’s Clinton School for Writers and Artists will no longer dissect animals, thanks to a software donation from PETA. After hearing from a concerned student and discussions with school administrators, PETA donated virtual dissection software to fully replace archaic animal dissection at the school.
October 2014 Students in psychology classes at the prestigious Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, will now learn about physiology without harming any animals, thanks to interactive simulation software donated by PETA. After receiving a complaint from a concerned student about classroom laboratories which undergraduate students were being directed to purchase live … Read more »
September 2014 Following PETA’s exposé of the mistreatment of animals in the laboratories of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Charles Rupprecht—a callous and negligent animal experimenter formerly at the CDC—was forced to resign from Ross University, where he was the associate dean in charge of experimentation on animals. After a review of … Read more »
September 2014 Following discussions with PETA, the fourth largest public school district in Alabama—Baldwin County Public Schools, which serves almost 29,000 students—adopted a progressive dissection-choice policy allowing compassionate students to choose a humane science lesson instead of being forced to dissect animals. Baldwin joins hundreds of districts nationwide that have implemented similar policies.
September 2015 Following a PETA campaign, human physiology courses at the University of Colorado-Boulder replaced classroom animal laboratories in which students cut off frogs’ heads and cut open live rats in order to apply drugs to their exposed, beating hearts. More than 600 animals were used every three years for these experiments, which have now … Read more »
July 2014 Following discussions with PETA, the Michigan State Board of Education adopted a progressive dissection-choice policy that allows more than 1.57 million students throughout the state to opt out of cruel classroom animal dissection and instead use modern computer software and other humane methods.
July 2014 Thanks to efforts by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and its members, the European Commission appears to be set to reduce the number of animals used in each reproductive toxicity test from 2,600 to 1,500, sparing more than 15% of the animals slated to be used in Europe’s REACH program—the largest animal … Read more »
July 2014 U.S. federal laws require that every batch of rabies vaccine be tested to ensure its potency. This means that large numbers of mice are subjected to extremely painful experiments, which are often so inaccurate they have to be repeated several times in order to get a meaningful result, killing as many as 70,000 … Read more »
May 2014 The fight against tests on animals for cosmetics has reached another important milestone, as India added a new clause to its Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, officially banning all animal tests for cosmetics following an intense campaign by PETA India and work by Indian Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi and others.
May 2014 Synthetically produced recreational drugs were being sold on store shelves in New Zealand until the government announced that all the drugs would be pulled until manufacturers presented test results proving that their products were safe, which meant that many new animal tests would be conducted. Animal rights activists working to stop this contacted … Read more »
