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PETA veterinarian Dr. Ingrid Taylor writes that monkeys in the National Institutes of Health’s terror tests experience “unrelenting isolation, psychological torment, and physical pain.” Read her full remarks.
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Read moreThis morning, PETA is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate more than 60 universities funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their apparent failure to abide by federal mandates to reduce and replace the use of animals in experiments. In its letter,… Read more »
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Read moreDemand that the German military stop maiming live pigs in battlefield surgery drills and join armed forces worldwide using human-patient simulators that have proved more effective.
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Read moreInstead of preparing for a real health crisis (e.g., COVID-19), NIH is spending your tax dollars torturing monkeys. Bill Maher explains how you can help stop this.
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Read moreBecause of the COVID-19 outbreak, the University of Florida is telling experimenters to “consider reduction of animal census,” which will likely involve killing many animals. PETA fired off a letter today to the university’s president, Kent Fuchs, demanding to know why the school conducts noncritical animal experiments. The group is also asking the public to… Read more »
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Read moreBecause of the COVID-19 outbreak, the University of California–Davis is telling experimenters to “ramp down all noncritical on-campus research activities,” which will likely involve killing many animals. PETA fired off a letter today to the university’s chancellor, Gary S. May, demanding to know why the school conducts noncritical animal experiments. The group is also asking… Read more »
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Read moreAnimal exploiters are nonessential—the coronavirus pandemic proves that the world can keep on turning without the torture and killing of animals.
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Read moreIn response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to allow companies to skip required tests on animals and head straight to human trials in the search for COVID-19 therapies, PETA sent a letter to the agency applauding the move and urging it to move away from animal experiments completely. “The novel coronavirus… Read more »
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Read moreAfter hearing from PETA, a Fortune 500 company and an Austrian government agency are backing away from supporting tests on animals in favor of modern, non-animal research. Ball Corporation has dropped its entire support as a “Platinum Partner” of the Red Bull–backed Wings for Life charity, which funds deadly spinal cord injury experiments on animals—a… Read more »
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