The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist and an engineer in cellular biology from Luxembourg travel grants to attend the Institute for In Vitro Sciences’ Practical Methods for In Vitro Toxicology Workshop. The annual award has sent several young scientists to this workshop to learn about the latest non-animal … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Bayer, the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, has banned the forced swim test, in which small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and made to swim for their lives. Company employees’ last documented use of the test was in 2006.
PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies program is pleased to welcome Procter & Gamble’s Aussie hair-care brand to its list of companies and brands that have banned all tests on animals worldwide. The well-known brand worked with PETA to make this compassionate choice and will feature our cruelty-free bunny logo on its website and eventually on … Read more »
Ingredion Incorporated—a multibillion-dollar global ingredients provider and “one of The Coca-Cola Company’s biggest suppliers of corn syrup”—has implemented a new policy banning all experiments on animals for basic research and to establish health or nutritional claims for marketing ingredients, none of which is required by law. Ingredion previously funded or donated to numerous disturbing animal … Read more »
After less than a year of intense pressure from PETA and more than half a million activists, Pfizer—the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical company—has banned the forced swim test. In this experiment, small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and made to swim for their lives, supposedly to gauge the effectiveness of drugs to treat … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. published a paper on a project that it’s working on with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a non-animal testing laboratory, and personal-lubricant companies to replace the use of rabbits with human skin cells in FDA-required tests for personal lubricants. In these tests, rabbits are restrained and lubricant … Read more »
Following discussions with PETA, Takasago International Corporation—Japan’s largest flavor and aroma company—is banning all animal tests to establish health claims for marketing ingredients, including tests funded through universities and third-party research organizations. Before adopting this public policy, Takasago funded an experiment in which mice’s skulls were removed with an electric grinder, chemicals were injected into … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Sage Therapeutics—a pharmaceutical company that specializes in developing antidepressant medications—has banned the forced swim test, in which small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and made to swim for their lives. This victory is particularly significant since this widely discredited test is supposed to gauge the effectiveness of drugs … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 giant Ball Corporation¬—most famous for the iconic Mason jars it used to manufacture—has stopped funding cruel and deadly experiments on animals. Ball—which is now the world’s largest manufacturer of recyclable metal beverage and food containers and a supplier for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Budweiser, and other household names—is a top … Read more »
A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office credited PETA scientists with working with federal agencies to promote the use of non-animal test methods and urged federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health to evaluate and let the public know how well they’re doing in reducing animal tests—something PETA has been calling on … Read more »
As a result of a paper coauthored by scientists from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the EPA has drafted a policy that will allow companies to submit a waiver for a test in which birds are fed pesticide-laced food for days before being killed. The peer-reviewed paper, … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Robertet S.A.—the world’s ninth-largest flavor and fragrance company—banned animal testing and included the new policy in its official Charter of Ethics. Prior to taking this progressive action, it had participated with another company in a joint experiment on mice in which Robertet S.A. chemically analyzed a flavor compound while other experimenters … Read more »
Following intense pressure from PETA, 500 physicians, many scientists, a number of celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of activists, the canine muscular dystrophy (MD) laboratory at Texas A&M University (TAMU) has stopped breeding dogs to develop the crippling disease in its useless effort to find a cure for humans with MD. So there will be … Read more »
After 20 years of PETA protests, campaigns, and dedicated science work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would stop funding and requesting tests on mammals by 2035. The EPA also committed to shorter-term goals such as providing millions of dollars in funding to advance non-animal testing, reducing funding and requests for mammalian … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Pernod Ricard, the world’s second-largest wine and spirits company—whose major brands include Absolut Vodka, Chivas Regal, Seagram’s Gin, Jameson Irish Whiskey, and Malibu—established a new policy banning animal testing. Pernod Ricard is also requiring that all its supplier companies (numbering more than 1,600 at last count) abide by the same policy … Read more »
