Bipartisan Reps Urge Feds to End Near-Drowning, Other Tests on Animals

Reps. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), and six of their congressional colleagues are calling for a federal agency to end four bogus tests on animals.

PETA Blasts Mizzou for Mutilating Rats in ‘Weight Training’ Tests

Mizzou’s approval of these tests indicates a shocking disregard for the lives of the rats who were used in the experiments.

Victory! Another Pharmaceutical Giant Bans Forced Swim Test

Score yet another victory for small animals forced to swim for their lives. Boehringer Ingelheim just banned this cruel test after working with PETA.

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PETA to NIMH: Your Own Study Says Animal Tests Fail—Stop Funding Them!

NIMH’s head just admitted how useless forced swim tests truly are. So why on Earth is it still funding them?

UPDATE: Sauk County Officials Condemn Thousands of Dogs to Terror, Pain, and Death

Sauk County officials squandered a chance to take a stand against the extreme cruelty of a planned beagle mill, despite opposition to it from nearly everyone.

PETA’s Global Fight to End the Forced Swim Test Hits New Zealand

Citizens, students, and celebrities in New Zealand are calling for an end to the cruel forced swim test. A PETA scientist is helping them achieve their goals.

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Victory! Top 10 Pharma Company Roche Bans Forced Swim Test

Roche joins fellow top 10 pharma companies Johnson & Johnson and AbbVie in getting rid of this abusive and pointless test.

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Doctor Starts Cruelty-Free Medical Training Program to Save Animals

There is always a way to avoid hurting animals. Dr. Bryan Webb found a great one of his own.

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Johns Hopkins Experimenter Scrambles Barn Owls’ Brains—Help Stop Him

Shreesh Mysore pokes electrodes into owls’ brains, mutilates the tissue so severely that the birds become “unusable” to him, and then kills them.

PETA Calls Out Animal Experimenter During ‘The Bachelorette’

We figured out a way to beat the prime time censors and expose what Colorado State University is doing to wild birds in its laboratory.

Progress! Nevada Passes Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act—Here’s the Catch

Nevada legislators want “to make cruel cosmetics a thing of the past.” Find out what’s missing from the state’s new law and what you can do about it.

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Johns Hopkins Owl Killer Is Now Dehydrating Mice—Take Action Now!

As if killing owls weren’t horrible enough, Shreesh Mysore of Johns Hopkins University is now dehydrating mice in the name of more useless animal tests.

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Experimenter Defends Her Abuse of Animals—and Gets Everything Wrong

Experts refute the validity of Tania Roth’s research. Here are five glaring problems with her claims.

Man With Muscular Dystrophy Sues Texas A&M Over Civil Rights Violation

Texas A&M is apparently prepared to trample the rights of humans with muscular dystrophy, in addition to tormenting dogs with the canine form of the disease.

New Cosmetics Testing Regs in China Could Spare Thousands of Animals

PETA exposed them. Now, new regulations drafted by the Chinese government represent a huge step forward in banning senseless, cruel animal tests for cosmetics.

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