Victories: Animal Experimentation

Following five years of work by PETA, the EPA has agreed to incorporate many of PETA’s recommendations into its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.

The University of Michigan (U-M) announced that it has ended the use of cats in its Survival Flight intubation training laboratory.

University of Ulm permanently ends cruel pig labs.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed with PETA in its third high-production volume (HPV) chemicals rule that there is sufficient existing data to drop certain animal testing, sparing almost 2,000 animals from painful oral and lethal toxicity tests!

U.S. military officials have finally confirmed that the use of monkeys in the Army’s chemical attack training courses is being discontinued.

October 2011  After hearing from a concerned student about experiments at an Indiana high school in which live fish were poisoned with insulin and sugar overdoses and then died, PETA immediately contacted the high school with information on humane alternatives to the animal laboratories. After diligently following up with school district personnel, PETA received confirmation … Read more »

The school reduced the number of animals used in classroom labs by 50 percent, saving the lives of hundreds of frogs, mice, and rats each year.

USDA Cites the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for violations following PETA complaint.

House Report language for 2012 tells the EPA that they must stop what they are doing and change their approach before they can start again.

The University of Maryland has agreed to release all its records on ferret experiments that were sought by PETA.

Tennessee school district drops live animal labs.

August 2011  After learning about the educational superiority and cost-effectiveness of modern alternatives to dissection, a biology teacher at Crockett County High School contacted PETA to find out how to replace animal dissection in her classes with non-animal methods. Through its educational grant program, PETA donated virtual dissection software, models, and computer equipment that will … Read more »

New OECD test guideline halves the number of animals used in reproductive testing.

Illinois school reprimands teacher for letting student kill rabbit in class.

Cruel sheep decompression experiments stopped at UW-Madison.