April 2009 After nearly a month of intense PETA campaigning against horrific combat training exercises conducted by the Bolivian military–in which live dogs were shown in a video being tied down, stabbed repeatedly, and screaming in agony–the Bolivian Ministry of Defense ended the killing by issuing the military’s first-ever animal protection regulation–Resolution 217–which “prohibit[s] all acts of … Read more »
January 2009 After PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Division learned that Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was purchasing cats from an animal shelter and using them in cruel and deadly medical training exercises, we launched an aggressive campaign to urge the school to replace the use of animals with modern, educationally superior medical simulation methods. In these … Read more »
January 2009 PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department (LID) received a report that students at a North Carolina high school were instructed to take fish home as part of a classroom science experiment and that some students were putting Monster Energy drink in the water. LID contacted the principal, who has now agreed to permanently end the use … Read more »
January 2009 PETA learned that Florida’s Clay County Animal Control (CCAC) conducted an experiment in which employees locked a helpless dog in a hot truck. They were trying to determine whether heat stress had caused the death of another dog who had previously been transported in a CCAC vehicle. PETA filed a complaint with the … Read more »
January 2009 After hearing from a whistleblower that students in an animal science class at a Texas high school were forced to kill and skin rabbits, PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department immediately contacted the school’s principal with information about teaching methods that don’t involve animals. The school has announced a permanent end to the rabbit killings.
October 2008 In response to a complaint from PETA, the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute ordered the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) to return more than $65,000 in federal grant money in January 2008. The money had been used in the laboratory of David Waitzman for experiments that violated animal welfare laws. Waitzman … Read more »
October 2008 PETA spent months providing Simplexity Health–an Oregon-based nutritional-supplement manufacturer–with information on humane non-animal testing methods. As a result, the company agreed to stop needlessly injecting mice with deadly toxins that cause the animals to convulse in pain. Simplexity Health has now adopted a permanent ban on all animal testing for its “Super Blue Green … Read more »
October 2008 PETA helped call attention to the suffering of mice in federally-funded experiments at University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) and prompted government sanctions for violations. In response to a complaint from PETA, in April 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ordered UCHC to reverse $14,000 in charges to a federal grant as a … Read more »
July 2008 After receiving complaints about a Hunter Fans advertisement featuring an elephant balancing on a circus ball, PETA wrote to the company and urged it to discontinue the ad and refrain from using exotic animals in future advertising campaigns. Hunter Fans quickly responded and immediately removed this ad from circulation.
July 2008 PETA filed a complaint against the University of Texas’ Michael E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine & Research, a chimpanzee research center that allowed six chimpanzees to escape over a five-month period, including a chimpanzee named Tony who was shot and killed. In response to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined the … Read more »
July 2008 After PETA alerted the Morris Animal Foundation to the abuse of dogs who were undergoing cruel kidney-transplant experiments, which the foundation was funding at Auburn University, the foundation launched its own investigation. As a result, funding to the university has been suspended and the foundation has decided that it will never again fund work … Read more »
April 2008 Thanks to a courageous whistleblower, PETA convinced National Taiwan University College of Medicine to cancel several cruel experiments, including an outdated pharmacology experiment in which students would inject the deadly poison strychnine into mice to measure how long they would convulse before dying. The university also canceled an experiment in which students would inject … Read more »
April 2008 When PETA learned that six monkeys at New York’s Lehman College who were slated for retirement at a sanctuary were instead sold to New York University (NYU) for invasive brain experiments, PETA contacted both Lehman and NYU and mobilized its members with an online action alert. After hearing from thousands of concerned people, NYU … Read more »
April 2008 When PETA learned that Yale University had invited experimenter Marina Picciotto to present a speech showing children “the importance of working with experimental animals for devising new ways to help people quit smoking,” we joined local activists in letting the university know that children should be taught ethical, progressive science and compassion for animals. … Read more »
