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Empathy Over Experimentation: The Case Against the Term ‘Lab Rat’

The term “lab rat” only perpetuates speciesism and condones cruel experiments on animals. Let PETA increase your compassion for rats.

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U.S. Tax Money Pays for Cruel, Deadly, and Fraudulent Foreign Animal Tests

PETA has found even more reasons to urge your legislators to act. Let’s save lives and stop the National Institutes of Health from using our tax money to fund foreign laboratories.

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To Label or to Liberate: Why Animals Aren’t Numbers

You’re not a number—you’re someone. The same goes for every other animal. PETA adds up key reasons to stop labeling living, feeling beings.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Beamish’s Life of Anguish in an NIH Laboratory

For this monkey, life has been nothing but terror and isolation. PETA’s new infographic reveals exactly how Beamish has suffered.

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Monkeys Saved From Colombian Hellhole: CARGO Act Can Prevent More Abuse Abroad

Colombian experimenters exposed by a PETA investigation are paying for their crimes against animals. The CARGO Act can ensure that no more tax dollars go to animal tests abroad.

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Fresh Allegations Expose Even More Possible Victims of Fraud in Harvard’s Laboratories

Harvard is struck by more allegations of falsified research. When will the school learn that even unfaked data from animal experiments is a path to false hope?

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PETA ‘Rats’ hit Ajinomoto’s offices in Malaysia to tell company to end horrific tests on animals

Small Animals Sliced Open and Killed in New Test Funded by MSG-Maker Ajinomoto

Ajinomoto Co. Inc. is paying a Philadelphia laboratory to bully, kill, and slice open small animals in a gruesome new experiment.

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Why Did a Group of Scientific Leaders Create a Tidal Wave Over One Test?

As the U.K. government reviews its policy on forced swim tests, over 400 scientists, academics, and medical and veterinary professionals from around the world are speaking out. Here’s what they want.

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Axe Joins PETA’s ‘Global Beauty Without Bunnies’ Animal Test–Free List

Axe, a popular men’s personal-care company, is axing cruel and pointless experiments on animals and officially joining PETA’s Beauty Without Bunnies list.

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Great News for Animals in New Zealand, Thanks to the Work of PETA Scientists

PETA scientists partnered with a local New Zealand group to quash the cruel near-drowning animal test across the country.

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Check Out the Obscene Federal Animal Welfare Violations at Tulane University

New Orleans’ Tulane University has a dark past—and a dark future, if it doesn’t clean up its act. Here’s what it’s been doing to animals.

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PETA Science Consortium International Shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Science Prize

PETA Science Consortium International has been shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Science Prize! Learn how its work helps replace the use of animals in toxicity testing.

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You Pay for This: The Ugly Reality of Experiments at Oregon’s Primate Center

PETA shows you EXACTLY what your tax money funds at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Spoiler alert: It’s not science.

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A Leap Forward: EPA Encourages Companies to Use Non-Animal Eye Tests

PETA scientists have been working with the EPA for years to replace painful eye irritation tests on rabbits with superior non-animal methods.

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10 Terrible NIMH-Funded Animal Experiments—and How You Can Help End Them

PETA’s list just scrapes the surface of what the National Institute of Mental Health is doing to animals with your tax dollars.

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