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ING’s New Policy Signals That Animal Exploitation Is Bad Business

Banking conglomerate ING nets a PETA prize for recognizing that industries that exploit animals are a bad investment.

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Thousands of Animals Have ‘Vanished’ From U.S. Biotech Lab Supplier

One of the world’s largest providers of animal-derived antibodies has a lot to answer for.

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Mary Matalin: Our Troops Deserve the Best

Republican strategist Mary Matalin doesn’t mince words when it comes to wasting tax dollars on killing animals in military trauma training.

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UPDATE: NIH Sets Date for Workshop on Ethics of Experimenting on Primates

After a push from PETA and demands from members of Congress, the National Institutes of Health set a date for its ethical review of experiments on primates.

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PETA Warns Florida Residents of the Zika Threat on Their Doorsteps

With dozens of Zika cases confirmed in the state, Florida’s squalid monkey prisons have the potential to harm more than just the monkeys.

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Gideon Raff of ‘Homeland’ Talks to Congress About Humane Military Training

Emmy Award–winning Homeland executive producer and combat vet Gideon Raff shows Congress how simulators can replace animals in military medical training.

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Video: Could This Robot Save Millions of Animals From Deaths in Laboratories?

You’re going to want to see this.

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How You Can Help Monkeys in the Year of the Monkey

PETA is working hard to free monkeys from laboratories, and you can help us.

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To Win the War on Cancer, Dishonorably Discharge Tests on Animals

We must abandon ineffective tests on animals, which have hobbled cancer research since the war on cancer was declared nearly half a century ago

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Lube Is Much More Loving When It’s Cruelty-Free

PETA is working with lubricant companies to put more love into lovemaking.

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Experimenters Perform Frankenstein-Like ‘Head Transplants’ on Animals

Experimenters cut animals’ heads off and suture them onto the bodies of others. The bodies remain fully or partially paralyzed, and the animals soon die.

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This Is What Tests on Animals Get You: Drug Injures Five, Kills One

A pain medication that was tested extensively on animals has left one person brain-dead and five others hospitalized in its first human clinical trial.

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This Group is Funding Experimenters—And We Support Them

From lifelike trauma simulators to laboratory-grown skin, cutting-edge and cruelty-free science saves both animal and human lives.

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Progress: ‘Random-Source’ Cat and Dog Dealers Barred by POTUS

The 2016 spending bill was just signed into law—and will spare many cats and dogs a life of torture in laboratories.

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Progress! National Institutes of Health Promotes Cruelty-Free Research

PETA’s efforts to persuade the National Institutes of Health to embrace modern, humane research are resulting in significant progress.

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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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