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Progress! National Institutes of Health Suspends Primate Products’ Contracts

Following PETA’s investigation, the notorious primate dealer is taking a serious financial hit.

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Congress Member Takes Action for Mice and Rats in Laboratories

Mice and rats account for 95 percent of the animals in laboratories—yet they aren’t reliably counted. One U.S. legislator knows it’s time for a change.

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It’s Aliiiiiiiive! Watch Cancer Grow in an Unlikely Place

An innovative company makes watching cancer grow kind of cool.

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Medical Journal Rejects All Studies Involving Animal Experimentation

A leading medical journal explains why publishing findings from experiments on animals is misleading, a hindrance to progress, and “unethical.”

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PETA International Science Consortium Gives Away $200,000

The PETA International Science Consortium funds a project to replace the use of animals in inhalation tests.

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Everything Is About to Change for Chimpanzees in Laboratories

New regulation stops chimpanzees from being subjected to experiments in U.S. laboratories.

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Former M.A.C. Model Pamela Anderson Urges Company To End Animal Tests

Actor pens letter on behalf of PETA urging cosmetics giant to go cruelty-free again.

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What’s Worse Than Taking Candy From a Baby? This Is.

Get ready to have your heart broken at the 19-second mark.

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Abuse, Bird Flu, and Death: It’s Business as Usual at the CDC

Animals are suffering and dying in painful—and completely preventable—ways: It’s business as usual at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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PETA Science Consortium and MatTek Award 3D Human Tissues To Save Animals from Labs

How do you keep scientists from testing on animals? Give them a better way and make it free.

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Isolation Driving You Nuts? Monkeys in Labs Spend Their Lives This Way

Find out what you can do about it.

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How Do Monkeys End Up in Labs? See the Haunting Photos

Life is hell for monkeys in laboratories—and so is the journey to get there.

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Researchers Develop Mini-Heart and Prove How Big Their Own Hearts Are

A group of scientists is doing groundbreaking research on cardiac health—and proving that they have big hearts.

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Professor Says Laboratories Full of ‘Fear, Pain and Early Death’

What a professor at Northwestern University saw when he toured the school’s laboratories made him question why animals must endure “loneliness, boredom, fear, pain and early death” in laboratories.

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Places Around the World Work to Ban Cosmetics Testing on Animals

The campaign to end cosmetics testing on animals is making historic progress around the globe. Here’s the latest.

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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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