After discussions with PETA scientists, GlaxoSmithKline, one of the top 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, banned the forced swim test. Between 2002 and 2018, its employees published at least 29 papers that describe the use of the test in experiments involving at least 1,327 mice and 447 rats.
Working with medical doctors, engineers at the Catholic University of Bolivia in La Paz have successfully developed a new type of automated ventilator to treat COVID-19 patients. The machine was tested on a human simulator containing an artificial lung that PETA scientists had recommended to the engineers. This spared pigs, the usual test subjects for … Read more »
Ball Corporation is no longer listed as a platinum partner of Wings for Life, a Red Bull–backed charity that supports horrific and scientifically bogus spinal cord injury experiments on animals. Ball’s decision to terminate its association with the charity comes after discussions with PETA that led the company to adopt a public policy that bans … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. chose Viviana Stephanie Costa Gagosian, a student seeking her master’s degree in genetics at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, as the winner of its Award for Innovative Approaches in Science. Gagosian was honored at the Summer School on Innovative Approaches in Science, a virtual school on non-animal … Read more »
PETA won a public records lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University, which must provide us with 74 videos of taxpayer-funded experiments on monkeys that took place at the university’s primate research center. These experiments involve impregnating macaque monkeys, feeding the mothers various experimental diets, separating them from their offspring, and deliberately frightening the young … Read more »
Funding from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. contributed towards the creation of a first-of-its-kind three-dimensional model that can be used to study the effects of chemicals on the deepest part of the human lung. This model could prevent tens of thousands of rats and mice from being confined to small tubes and forced to … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a policy to no longer require a test in which birds are fed pesticide-laced food for days before being killed, sparing approximately 700 mallards and quails each year. The draft policy was based on the results of a paper that the agency coauthored with the PETA International Science Consortium … Read more »
After more than a year of discussions, PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies program welcomes one of the biggest personal-care brands in the world: Unilever’s Suave. The brand has worked with PETA scientists to ban all tests on animals worldwide, including in China, where animal testing is required for many products. Suave products will carry our … Read more »
In a win for free speech, Texas A&M University has agreed to remove all settings blocking or filtering comments critical of its canine muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs as part of a settlement of PETA’s First Amendment lawsuit. Our federal lawsuit challenged the university’s use of a filter on its Facebook page that automatically deleted … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. co-authored a paper with a government agency that will help end the use of animals to produce antibodies—a process in which hundreds of thousands of animals each year are injected with foreign substances and then are repeatedly bled or endure needles being inserted into their abdomens to extract the … Read more »
The first steps of a project funded by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. have succeeded in creating fully human-derived antibodies capable of blocking the poisonous toxin that causes diphtheria. These antibodies can end the 100-year-old method of injecting horses repeatedly with the diphtheria toxin and then draining huge amounts of their blood in order … Read more »
Following talks with PETA, Strauss Group—the second-largest food and beverage company in Israel and the parent company of the top-selling hummus brand in the U.S., Sabra—adopted a progressive new policy banning laboratory experiments on animals. In previous deadly tests on animals conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, an experimenter funded by Strauss … Read more »
After a PETA campaign that included hundreds of thousands of e-mails from supporters as well as shareholder resolutions, videos, ads, and public protests, Bristol-Myers Squibb banned the forced swim test. Between 2008 and 2017, the company’s employees published papers describing the use of more than 1,600 animals—748 gerbils, 698 mice, and 192 rats—in the cruel … Read more »
After working closely with PETA for nearly two years, Avon Products, Inc., has stopped all tests on animals everywhere in the world, including in China, where cruel and deadly tests on animals are still required for many cosmetics and personal-care products. The company has officially been added to PETA’s “Working for Regulatory Change” list and … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. co-authored a paper on a non-animal method that measures the amount of nanomaterials in human cells. Nanomaterials are tiny particles found in products such as electronics and clothing, and this method can help scientists figure out if the amount of nanomaterials present is toxic instead of forcing animals to … Read more »
