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White rat emerges from pink peony, to help show why the term 'lab rat' should be deleted from our vocabulary
How Did the U.K. Just Toss a Life Raft to Mice and Rats?

After relentless campaigning by PETA U.K., the U.K. government has made a change that will encourage scientists to focus on human-relevant research methods. 

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Kolbie the dog resting on an orange blanket after being rescued from The Veterinarians' Blood Bank
VIDEO: How PETA Found a Home for a Hound Exploited by a Blood Bank

The Veterinarians’ Blood Bank is under fire following a damning PETA undercover investigation. Discover Kolbie the dog’s rescue story.

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Campaign Updates: Colossal Monkey Prison Proposed in Bainbridge, Georgia

Safer Human Medicine, a company created by former executives of animal experimentation companies, has proposed the largest monkey-breeding and -holding facility in the country, targeting land in Bainbridge, Georgia.

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Why Editing Chickens’ Genes Is a Cockamamie Idea

Wait just a wing flap—scientists think messing with chicken genetics will hinder disease?! PETA’s got five reasons why that’s a no.

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USDA Fines Washington Laboratory $5K for Animal Welfare Violations

Pigs, monkeys, and beagles are suffering at Altasciences. Find out what it did to get the feds’ attention and how to help animals now.

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White rat emerges from pink peony, to help show why the term 'lab rat' should be deleted from our vocabulary
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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lamb lying on grass with the number 52 marked on their back, to show that we need to respect each animal as an individual, not a number
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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Beamish drawings to show his story as a prisoner of NIH
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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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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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
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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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