Animal Experimentation
Ingrid Newkirk, the animal rights legend and President of PETA, celebrated her 75th birthday by urging people to take action for animals. Los Angeles, July 2nd, 2024 — PETA Co-Founder and President Ingrid Newkirk recently celebrated her 75th birthday, not with presents, cake or a vacation, but with a call to action for animals.
All charges against all three defendants in the open rescue of three beagles from a laboratory dog breeding facility in Wisconsin were dropped days before the trial was set to begin. Los Angeles, March 14th, 2024 — It was a stunning eleventh hour reversal in a criminal case that stems all the way back to 2017.
A project to build a massive monkey prison in Georgia, where monkeys would be bred for vivisection labs, faces increasingly strong opposition from local residents Los Angeles, March 12th, 2024 — Residents of Bainbridge, Georgia, are expressing outrage over plans to build a massive laboratory monkey-breeding facility in their small city.
A recent PETA exposé of a cruel primate vivisection lab in the Colombian city of Cali inspires calls to pass the new CARGO Act to ban US-funded foreign animal experiments. Los Angeles, September 1st, 2023 — The animal rights organization PETA has launched an exposé of a cruel primate vivisection lab in the Colombian city of Cali which ended with over 100 monkeys being confiscated by the authorities due to many breaches of local legislation.
PETA pledges one million dollars to save a thousand Cambodian monkeys, that PETA charges were illegally imported, and asks the public to help with signatures Los Angeles, April 8th, 2023 — The fate of 1,000 monkeys, that PETA says were illegally imported into the United States, is now in the hands of the US Government.
Beagles freed from a private testing lab in California found their first taste of freedom at Beagle Freedom Project Los Angeles, March 4, 2023 — To the delight of those who witnessed it, on February 25, 2023, more than. dozen beagles, freed from a private contract research testing laboratory, were able to walk on grass and mud for the first time in their tormented lives.
The New FDA Modernization Act, eliminating the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that new drugs be tested on animals, has been now signed into law. Los Angeles, December 26, 2022 2:30pm — After a long-fought campaign by a coalition of animal protection organizations, The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 has now become law, passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate and signed into law by the President of the United States as part of the omnibus spending bill. Supporters are declaring this the most crucial milestone for the anti-vivisection movement ever, as it removes its biggest obstacle: U.S.
The Veterans Affairs’ lab in Louisville, Kentucky has ended its controversial cat experiments after pressure from animal protection organizations. Los Angeles, December 14, 2022 1:15 pm — The anti-vivisection animal protection organization White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has announced that the controversial cat lab at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Louisville, Kentucky will stop animal experimentation.
The Research Modernization Deal: a strategic plan to replace animal experiments in scientific research with modern methods. We’ve heard it a million times. When animal rights activists protest against animal experiments, the knee-jerk reply of many scientists and politicians is that society needs vivisection in order to cure human diseases.
Phoenix Zones Initiative doctors say passage of the FDA Modernization Act would be the biggest blow to vivisection… ever. For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has spent billions of dollars experimenting on billions of animals for one key reason. Governments, especially the U.S.