Victories: Animal Experimentation

The airline verified that its commitment to this policy remained steadfast and wrote that it “fully agree[s]” with PETA on this issue and supports our “great effort in the protection of animal rights.”

In response PETA’s complaint, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited the company for egregious violations of the Animal Welfare Act and took the additional rare step of fining the facility $2,625 for the violations.

After discussions with PETA, Pangea Organics announced that it will end all sales of its products in China, where animal tests for cosmetics are required.

Following a complaint filed by PETA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspected UW-Madison and confirmed the abuse of cats in a taxpayer-funded brain experiment at the UW–Madison.

PETA succeeds in replacing the head of the ICCVAM, citing his failure to implement non-animal testing methods in tests required by the U.S. government.

Following discussions with PETA, North Clayton Middle School, just outside Atlanta, replaced all frog dissection laboratories in its school with modern, humane teaching methods.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) committee recommended that the agency cut funding for most current federally funded experiments on chimpanzees.

United Airlines will no longer ship monkeys to labs.

After a year-long review, which included input from PETA, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) ruled that it will allow Air Canada to ban the transport of monkeys to laboratories.

Following a dynamic international campaign by PETA entities worldwide, 70 4-month-old beagles destined for painful poisoning tests in an Indian laboratory were saved and adopted into loving homes.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to pay more than $9,000 for egregious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.

Wake Forest University was ordered to pay more than $35,000 for eight serious AWA violations.

Following discussions with PETA, Florida’s Glades County School District replaced all animal dissection in its schools with modern, humane teaching methods.

Following a PETA campaign, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has confirmed that it has not used any pigs for crude trauma training exercises in more than a year and that it has no future plans to do so.

Following a complaint filed by PETA in 2008, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) to pay more than $12,000 in fines for its cruel and incompetent treatment of animals in its laboratories.