PETA scientists published a paper that shows how researchers can avoid the use of a product that’s extracted from the blood of fetal calves after their mothers are slaughtered for food. This product is used to grow cells in petri dishes, but animal-free products are available and can be used instead.
After hearing from PETA, PETA Australia, and Humane Research Australia, the University of South Australia decided that the forced swim test won’t be approved for any future research projects. Experimenters at the school had published about conducting the bogus test as recently as January 2021.
PETA scientists and experts from regulatory agencies, academia, and companies coauthored a groundbreaking paper that presents a new approach to assessing whether chemicals cause cancer. The approach is already being used to spare mice and rats tests in which they’re fed pesticides every day to see if tumors develop.
Following discussions with PETA and our partner organization in Taiwan, Kindness to Animals, AGV Products Corp.—a major company licensed by Nestlé to produce, distribute, and market its Nestea products in Taiwan—has banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. AGV previously conducted or funded at least 12 cruel experiments on animals between 2006 and 2020 in … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Kikkoman—the world’s largest Japanese-style soy sauce manufacturing company and a sponsor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute—told the institute to stop using its funding for tests on animals and instead to allocate the company’s donations to educational programs, special meetings, and administrative expenses only. Kikkoman, which has donated at … Read more »
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has finalized a regulation that removes animal testing recommendations and requirements for companies wanting to make blood pressure health marketing claims about their food and beverage products. The testing included feeding foods of interest for at least eight weeks to rats bred to develop hypertension and measuring their … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Grape King Bio—Taiwan’s largest biotech fermentation health-food company, known there for its popular energy drink—has banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. It previously conducted or funded at least 10 animal experiments from 2002 to 2020 that involved mutilating and killing no less than 1,333 animals, purportedly to support health … Read more »
A top official has confirmed to PETA that no animals will be killed in barbaric survival training drills during Cobra Gold 2022, a massive joint multinational military exercise held in Thailand and attended by the U.S. military. During these cruel, dangerous, and likely illegal exercises, troops had been forced to kill chickens with their bare … Read more »
In a huge blow to the cruel animal experimentation industry, Kenya Airways—which has transported hundreds of monkeys from a Mauritius breeding farm to the U.S. to be used in laboratory experiments—has committed to ending this practice after its current contract expires next month. The airline’s decision comes just 24 hours after PETA contacted the airline’s … Read more »
The 19th Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge ruled that Louisiana State University (LSU) must turn over to PETA all the records that we had requested related to LSU experimenter Christine Lattin’s taxpayer-funded experiments on sparrows. PETA filed our lawsuit in December 2020 after LSU refused to release public documents, including … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. donated equipment worth $20,000 to an animal-free laboratory to help end a nearly 80-year-old test in which chemicals are applied to the eyes of live rabbits. This donation helps ensure access to the equipment needed for non-animal tests that replace tests on animals.
Texas Biomedical Research Institute, home of the notorious Southwest National Primate Research Center, withdrew its request for $11 million from the taxpayer-funded San Antonio bond program after objections from PETA supporters, including PETA Students Opposing Speciesism hub organizer Mariah Smith, and other local activists. They testified at public hearings, submitted public comments, and called their … Read more »
PETA scientists intervened in a legal case in which the European Chemicals Agency was requiring a company to conduct tests on animals even though such tests contradicted the agency’s own requirement that animals be used only as a last resort. In this major victory for animals, PETA scientists provided evidence that helped win the case, … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan—one of Taiwan’s leading soft-drink manufacturers and the Taiwanese bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company—banned animal tests not required by law. The company previously conducted or funded experiments on hamsters—purportedly to make human health claims about its green tea products—in which the animals were starved, killed, and dissected.
Following pressure from PETA, including e-mails from nearly 60,000 of our supporters, Uni-President Enterprises Corporation—the largest food company in Asia—banned animal tests not required by law. The company previously conducted or funded at least 17 animal experiments—including one published in 2021—that involved mutilating and killing almost 1,000 animals in attempts to make human health claims … Read more »
