April 2010 Less than one day after PETA entities worldwide released online action alerts—accompanied by photos showing 50 terrified beagles as they were transported by global transport company Lufthansa to a laboratory in Scotland—Lufthansa announced a new policy prohibiting the transport of dogs and cats to laboratories. PETA is now working to persuade Lufthansa to extend its policy … Read more »
January 2010 After more than two years of private discussions with PETA, Japan’s ITO EN, Ltd – the world’s largest green-tea manufacturer, with more than $3 billion in annual global sales – has instituted a new policy prohibiting all animal testing. The company had previously conducted and funded painful and deadly experiments on animals that involved … Read more »
January 2010 Less than six months after PETA released its undercover investigation in laboratories at the University of Utah, Utah legislators voted overwhelmingly to amend an archaic state law so that government-run animal shelters would no longer be forced upon request to sell dogs and cats to laboratories for use in cruel and deadly experiments. PETA’s investigation … Read more »
January 2010 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department learned about a physiology course at Australia’s Queensland University of Technology in which cane toads were being killed after having their chests cut open in crude and inhumane classroom experiments so that students could observe the effects of various drugs on the toads’ hearts. We urged the school’s administrators to … Read more »
October 2009 After learning that a massive animal testing program in Europe was going to cause even more animal suffering as a result of duplicative testing, PETA initiated a joint letter to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which oversees the program, asking it to intervene. Now, in a huge victory for animals, ECHA has announced a … Read more »
October 2009 After PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Division learned that cats were having hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their throats in cruel intubation training exercises at Heartland Regional Medical Center (HRMC) in St. Joseph, Missouri, we sent a letter to the director of the course detailing how animals suffer in these procedures and explaining that modern … Read more »
October 2009 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) learned about an Oakton Community College anatomy and physiology course in which dozens of rats and salamanders were dissected alive so that students could observe their working organs before the animals were killed. LID immediately contacted the school to urge its administrators to end the cruel procedures. We sent … Read more »
October 2009 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) learned about a University of California-Irvine neurosciences course in which 200 rats per year were being killed after holes were drilled into their skulls and their brains were damaged in crude classroom experiments. We sent a letter to the school to urge its administrators to end the cruel procedures, … Read more »
July 2009 PETA spoke with executives at Big Fuel Communications to alert them about the abuse that great apes endure when they are used in the advertising industry. After learning about the cruelty, the executives immediately pledged never to use great apes in any future advertising campaigns.
July 2009 After PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) learned about a University of Connecticut Health Center medical training course in which cats were having hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their wind pipes and rabbits were having air forced into their chests and were then stabbed with needles to relieve the pressure (before being killed), we … Read more »
July 2009 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Division learned that live pigs were being cut up for training in various gynecological surgeries and suturing techniques at the American Society for Women’s Health medical conference hosted by Florida Hospital Celebration Health. We sent the organizers a letter detailing the cruelty involved in using animals for medical training and describing … Read more »
