MRIGlobal—a scalpel-for-hire laboratory with federal government contracts worth nearly $6 million paid with taxpayer funds—can’t seem to abide by the law. Why are the feds still doing business with it?
For more than 40 years, Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Gerald Pepe has used baboons in nightmarish pregnancy experiments, most recently injecting them with hormones and cutting out and killing their babies at various stages of gestation.
After hearing from PETA and other animal defenders in Pakistan, the Islamabad Capital Territory Police apprehended suspects seen in a viral video apparently suffocating dogs with plastic bags held over their heads.
A paper coauthored by PETA scientists shows how the differences between the respiratory tracts of humans and rats affect toxicity testing—and why non-animal tests should be used instead.
