Victories: Animal Experimentation

PETA contacted a school that for years has had students put toxins into a tank containing fish and snails. The school agreed to discontinue the experiment.

The EPA dropped a plan that would have required manufacturers of chemicals produced in high volumes to conduct animal tests.

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) officials announced a new policy that will reduce the agency’s use of live animals in cruel and deadly medical training exercises.

The body that manages the cleanliness of shellfish for consumption approved of a method that uses tissue from one animal in place of 200 live animals.

February 2014 The European organization that makes the official recommendations about the use of non-animal testing methods has recommended a new method that’ll replace the use of mice and guinea pigs in painful experiments that aim to determine whether a chemical causes skin allergies. The organization adopted several of PETA’s recommendations, as seen in its … Read more »

Lorillard Tobacco Company, the maker of Newport cigarettes, enacted a ban on all animal testing unless such tests become required by law in the future.

PETA donated virtual dissection computer software to the Camelot Academy in Philadelphia to replace all animal dissection at the school.

The international agreement means that thousands of doctors will be trained with simulation tools instead of cutting holes into thousands of live animals.

India is now the second country, following Israel, to end tests on animals for both cosmetics and household products.

After more than two years of discussions with PETA—and campaigns by PETA and our international affiliates—the Polish military replaced the use of animals in cruel military trauma training exercises with medical simulation technology.

The German natural beauty pioneer LOGOCOS Naturkosmetik ended all sales in China to ensure that no animals anywhere are harmed for their products.

As a result of the fund’s lobbying, Swedish government agencies must now publish their strategies for replacing animals in experiments.

Following more than a year of discussions with PETA as well as an online advocacy campaign, the Smithsonian Institution’s Science Education Center amended its science curriculum to remove a live animal lesson.

The PETA International Science Consortium, Ltd., combines the scientific expertise of PETA U.S. and its affiliates to implement non-animal research methods.

After more than three years of urging from PETA, Madigan Army Medical Center replaced its cruel use of ferrets for pediatric intubation training with modern simulators.