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How to Get Away With Murder: Do It in a Lab

If you poisoned your grandma’s cat or lit your neighbor’s dog on fire, you’d likely face felony charges. Yet countless animals in labs endure the same fate every day.

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Victory! Yakult Honsha Ends Animal Experiments After PETA Appeal

The international food and beverage company will no longer subject animals to cruel product testing.

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PETA Protesters Captivate Countless Passersby Around the World (Photos)

December’s demonstrations pulled out all the stops. See why most onlookers couldn’t help but stop and stare.

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Animal-Free Inhalation Testing? Talk About a Breath of Fresh Air

PETA scientists are working with government and industry to end inhalation tests on animals.

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VIDEO: Dog-Experiment Protesters Arrested on Belk Bowl Field

PETA activists stormed the field at the Belk Bowl to demand that Texas A&M University shut down a lab that tortures dogs bred to have muscular dystrophy.

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The University of Utah Must Stop Its Rogue Animal Experimenters

PETA has uncovered new documents showing that experimenters at the University of Utah flagrantly violated animal welfare laws—again.

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Giant Babies and Burning Bottles: PETA’s December to Remember

PETA activists campaign for animals all year round. See photos from recent eye-catching PETA protests that grabbed headlines around the country.

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No Texas A&M Event Is Off-Limits, PETA Activists Crash Graduation Ceremony

Graduates and their families will remember this moment forever.

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Chevron Reportedly Shuts Down Free Speech—PETA Files Shareholder Resolution

Chevron didn’t like ads exposing its support of TAMU. So we’re taking our fight for dogs bred to have muscular dystrophy to the company’s shareholders.

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PETA International Science Super-Group Celebrates Five Years

From giving away cool high-tech gadgets to scoring a Lush Prize (yes, that Lush), here are three ways that scientists with the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. are winning big for animals.

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Thanks to PETA, Man Behind Using Animals in Trauma Training Is Banned

He’s been banned from treating patients in North Carolina, and now, the military must ban his twisted legacy: animals in trauma training.

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Beautiful: Mice, Rats Rescued From Lab See Sunshine for the First Time

Get ready to have your day made.

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A woman with muscular dystrophy speaking out against MD experiments on dogs. Caption reads, "It's a very debilitating, progressive disease."
Cruel Muscular Dystrophy Experiments in France Exposed

On the eve of a major fund-raising telethon for muscular dystrophy in France, a French muscular dystrophy patient’s video condemning animal experiments makes headlines.

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16 Gift Ideas for Compassionate Holiday Shoppers

The PETA Catalog has something for everyone. Order by 12 noon ET on December 15 to ensure that your gifts arrive before Christmas.

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Speak Out Against Animal Testing With FREE Bumper Sticker!

Now, there’s an easy way to show that you’re opposed to animal testing: simply by driving your car. Claim your FREE bumper sticker!

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
PETA’s Milestones for Animals: 1980 to Now
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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