Following pressure from PETA, including e-mails from nearly 60,000 of our supporters, Yakult Co., Ltd.—known for its probiotic drinks in Taiwan—banned animal tests not required by law after being formally included in its parent company’s (Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.) newly updated policy banning such tests. Yakult Co. previously conducted or funded experiments in which nearly … Read more »
After PETA discovered that deadly animal experiments on at least 172 mice had used products provided by Blommer Chocolate Company— “the largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate supplier in North America”—even though its parent company, Fuji Oil Holdings Inc., banned animal tests, we immediately called on the subsidiary to adhere to the policy. Following the … Read more »
PETA scientists from Europe, India, and the U.S. participated in the 11th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, a virtual conference focused on non-animal test methods that is attended by researchers and regulators from around the world. The PETA scientists chaired four sessions, presented 15 posters, and delivered two oral … Read more »
Not a single animal was killed in survival training drills during Cobra Gold 2021, a massive joint multinational military exercise held in Thailand. This victory comes after an intense campaign in which PETA and thousands of our supporters urged the secretary of defense and the Marine Corps commandant to end the freakish behavior of Marines … Read more »
After receiving a letter from PETA and PETA Switzerland urging him to prohibit the use of animals in his experiments, Jean-Patrice Keka—the founder of the Congolese aerospace company Développement Tous Azimuts (DTA)—said that he won’t send a guinea pig named Galaxionaut into space as previously planned but instead will spare him this terrifying trip. Keka … Read more »
After discussions with PETA and Taiwan-based Kindness to Animals, Lian Hwa Foods Corp.—a popular snack food company based in Taiwan and a major supplier of ready-to-eat foods to 7-Eleven stores there—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. From 2013 to 2018, Lian Hwa conducted or funded at least five invasive and lethal laboratory experiments … Read more »
Obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) medical residents at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee will no longer practice surgical procedures on live animals, following approximately four months of talks between the hospital and PETA. In response to our survey regarding animal use in OB/GYN residency programs, the hospital confirmed that it had been using three live pigs … Read more »
After discussions with PETA and Taiwan-based Kindness to Animals, Vitalon Foods Group—the third-largest health food company in Taiwan and maker of Super Supau, Taiwan’s best-selling brand of sports drink—banned animal tests not explicitly required by law. From 2005 to 2019, Vitalon and its subsidiary YEC Biotechnology Co. conducted or funded at least 12 laboratory experiments that … Read more »
In partnership with MatTek Life Sciences and MedTec Biolab, PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded researchers tools that can replace the use of rats and mice in tests to assess how inhaled chemicals affect the lungs. The Science Consortium also honored an early-career researcher for a poster that he presented at the European Commission’s Joint … Read more »
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)—a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—has canceled funding for a racist experiment at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Experimenters were imposing “episodic aggression” on mice—a euphemism for forcing them to fight or making a larger, stressed mouse attack a smaller one—to mimic … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Standard Foods Group—the largest health food company in Taiwan and a licensee of PepsiCo’s Quaker Oats Company there—has become Taiwan’s first major food and beverage company to ban animal tests not required by law, which it previously conducted or funded to make human health claims for marketing its products. This lifesaving … Read more »
Amgen confirms no more forced swim tests! This follows PETA scientists’ outreach to the biopharmaceutical company to urge it to enact a policy prohibiting the use, commission, or funding of the tests, in which small animals are often dosed with a test substance, dropped into inescapable beakers of water, and made to swim for their … Read more »
A new paper published by PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other international experts shows that human-relevant approaches can replace tests in which chemicals are applied to the eyes of live rabbits. PETA scientists are working to ensure that these methods can be used in the U.S. and around the world. The paper … Read more »
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration has finalized a regulation and removed animal-testing recommendations and requirements for companies wanting to make anti-fatigue health marketing claims about their food and beverage products. It will now require only safe and effective human tests. This follows pressure from PETA that included the submission of a detailed scientific critique … Read more »
In a first-of-its kind ruling within the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied Texas A&M University’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit that PETA had filed against it. The lawsuit challenges the university’s refusal to allow us to place an ad on the school’s buses showing a dog used … Read more »
