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A “Surprising” Development in Columbia’s Laboratories Was Columbia’s Veterinarian Really a Veterinarian? More

Ad in New York Times Targets Covance Cruelty While the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration continue to investigate abusive conditions at the billion-dollar animal-testing conglomerate. More

Add Zing to your Complexion with Zia Natural Skincare It's only natural that Zia Natural Skincare is a must-have for a constellation of Hollywood starlets and make-up artists. More

Aid Your Nails With Cruelty-Free Products From Nail-Aid and Anise Cosmetics If you refuse to buy nail care products made by companies that drip chemicals into rabbits' eyes in cruel "safety" tests or those made out of animal-derived substances with names only a chemist can pronounce, then you'll love the Nail-Aid line of innovative nail treatments and the nail colors from Anise Cosmetics as much as we do. More

Air Force Tasers Fully-Conscious Pigs! Fully-conscious pigs are repeatedly forced to endure excruciating pain of Taser blasts in crude Air Force tests. More

American Cancer Society: Hypocrites in Action At the American Cancer Society Gala, attendees can eat their way to the hospital, thanks to the meat-laden menu, featuring rack of lamb, beef tenderloin, fried chicken, and pork loin. Numerous studies have linked the consumption of meat to the development of cancer. More

American College of Surgeons Insists on Using Cruel Animal Labs Activists demand use of validated non-animal alternatives. More

American Diabetes Association While there is no cure for diabetes, the good news is that diabetes can be prevented, and even more remarkably, symptoms can be reversed. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) should be at the forefront of preventing diabetes. Instead, this bloated charity--which netted $188 million in total revenues in 2002 and whose CEO took home more than $430,000 in the same year--is turning a blind eye to the cutting edge of knowledge on diabetes. More

An Exclusive Interview With Linda Blair Linda Blair, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in The Exorcist and took home a PETA Humanitarian Award for her startling ad campaign with the tagline, “Animal Experiments Make My Head Spin,” talks about her new book, Going Vegan, and tells why she opened her home to some fine-feathered friends—chickens and turkeys rescued from slaughter. More

An Important Announcement for Animal Shelters Everywhere ... If you currently buy Iams products (or products of any other company that tests on animals in laboratories) for your animal shelter, we urge you to please switch to a company that does not do these tests! More

Animal Shelters Give Iams the Boot Animal shelters, sanctuaries, and rescue organizations across North America are joining PETA’s boycott of Iams products because Iams confines animals to cages to conduct cruel laboratory tests on them. More

Animals Die and Iams Lies! Learn how Iams violated its own research policy. More

Anyone Home? Your Conscience Is Calling During a recent trip to White Plains, New York, where the March of Dimes is headquartered, PETA Campaign Coordinator Brandi Valladolid paid a visit to the home of March of Dimes President Jennifer Howse [Is she still president?] to see whether a pleasant chat over tea might soften the March of Dimes’ hard-line position on its funneling of millions of dollars into dreadful animal experiments. More

Are Cow Brains Lurking in Your Lipstick? You're probably thinking, "I hope not!"--but how can you be sure? The Food and Drug Administration recently told cosmetics makers to stop using the brains and spinal cord tissue from older cows in products like lipstick and hair spray in order to try to prevent the spread of mad cow disease to humans. More

Attention, Shoppers: Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is Want to help animals with every dollar you spend? Then put your wallet to work for animals with PETA's 2006 Shopping Guide for Caring Consumers. Persia White, the star of Girlfriends and a PETA anti-fur ad, has teamed up with PETA to make it easier than ever to support companies that reject cruel and unnecessary animal tests as well as to avoid clothing and accessories made from fur, leather, wool, silk, and down. More

Auburn University: A PETA Undercover Investigation Greedy veterinarians make animals and people suffer for their "slush fund." More

Blinding Rabbits for Beauty When Reese Witherspoon's character in Legally Blonde 2 takes on the cosmetics-testing industry, everyone in the audience roots for her success against the cruel animal experimenters. More

Boycott Bank of America You wouldn’t give a penny to the March of Dimes or any other health charity that funds cruel animal experiments--but would your bank? More

British Heartless Foundation Dogs and cats are used in British Heart Foundation research--in one test, experimenters cut dogs open to see whether their livers functioned as “blood reservoirs” despite the experimenters’ own admission that they already knew that blood storage in dogs is very different from that in humans. More

C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and the Fight for Animals: The Roar Heard Around the World Critics are calling The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and TheWardrobe "childlike magic," "gorgeous," and "spectacular." More

Calling All Caring Consumers ... In Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde, which was released on DVD, Reese Witherspoon’s character, Elle, and her dog, Bruiser, head to Washington, D.C., to campaign for a ban on cosmetics tests on animals. A perfectly coiffed and manicured advocate for animals, the smart and beautiful Elle resolutely declares, “I’m here to speak for those who can’t speak for themselves.” More

Censored in Chandler When word got out that Covance had purchased land in Chandler, Arizona, with plans to build a 400,000-square-foot testing laboratory, residents jumped into action. More

Chrissie Hynde Asks P&G Employees to Help Stop Iams' Deadly Animal Tests Procter & Gamble (P&G) employees returning to work from their Fourth of July holiday weekend will find a surprise in their voice-mail: a message from rock icon and Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde asking for their help to stop Iams (a P&G subsidiary) from conducting cruel—often deadly-tests on dogs and cats. More

Christine Todd Whitman Is “The New Jersey Devil to the Animals” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has created a new ad featuring a demonic Christine Whitman shoving a lethal dose of toxic chemicals into an animal’s mouth. More

Clean Up With a Clear Conscience Spring is in the air, and that means that spring cleaning is probably on your "to do" list. Before you break out the bucket and dust mop, your first order of business might be cleaning out your broom closet. More

Columbia Alum Fighting For Animals Tortured in Columbia Labs When Linda Greene graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in clinical social work in 1990, she had no idea that she would one day be standing outside a gathering of Columbia alumni, holding a sign declaring her shame over her alma mater's actions. More

Columbia Community Joins Fight to End Cruel Animal Experiments Columbia professors, students, staff, and alumni are raising their voices in protest of the crude, cruel, and pointless studies that maim and kill primates in the university’s laboratories. Their letters and phone calls asking President Bollinger to stop these hideous tests are pouring in to Columbia’s administrative offices. More

Columbia University Alumni: Give Your Alma Mater an F! If you went to Columbia University, it's time to get busy-your alma mater's reputation as a world-class university is on the line. More

Columbia University Cruelty A PETA investigation has revealed grotesque abuses to animals in laboratories at Columbia University, including subjecting baboons to invasive surgeries and leaving them to suffer and die in their cages without any painkillers. This horrific story came to our attention when a courageous whistleblower, a postdoctoral veterinary fellow at Columbia, stepped forward to tell us what she had witnessed. More

Conscious Horses’ Necks Slashed in Turkey Undercover video footage shows horses with their legs tightly bound to their bodies in a barbaric and cruel blood-collection procedure More

Contracting With Killers Animal experimentation is a bloody, violent, and deadly business. Those who don’t want to get their hands dirty and those who prefer to hide behind the cloak of “deniability” hire contract laboratories to get the job done. More

Corporate Welfare and Animal Welfare: Covance Too Cheap to Provide Enrichment for Monkeys While Covance’s billion-dollar annual revenue is built on the suffering of monkeys who suffer and die in its labs, Covance refuses to part with the few dollars it would take to buy an engaging toy or a foraging tray to provide some enrichment for the primates. More

Covance Drops Lawsuit Against PETA Covance has abandoned its attempt to stop PETA from publicizing evidence, including videotape footage, that workers tormented monkeys in its testing laboratories. The billion-dollar animal-testing giant settled its lawsuit against PETA, which is now free to forge ahead with its campaign against the company More

Covance Pays PETA Europe £145,000 in Final Resolution of 2005 Lawsuit In the final chapter of Covance's efforts to bar PETA Europe from publicizing video footage of animal abuse inside a Covance facility, Covance has complied with a court order by paying PETA Europe £145,000 to cover legal fees and costs. More

Covance Withdraws Motions to Gag PETA Investigation In the circuit court of Fairfax County, Virginia, billion-dollar animal-testing conglomerate Covance withdrew its motions for a temporary restraining order and for a preliminary injunction against PETA More

Covance, Big Tobacco, and Smoking Beagles: Science in the Public Interest? A relationship between Big Tobacco and Covance over a period of more than 30 years has produced "scientific" results that have compromised the public interest for the sake of Covance's bottom line. More

Cruelty Free Summer Skin Give bunnies a break this summer by tossing your animal-tested products in favor of cruelty-free sunscreens, sunless tanners, moisturizers, and insect repellents. More

Cruelty to Animals ... on My Campus? Tell Your Alma Mater that Animal Suffering Matters to You! At just about every university and college, tucked away on secure floors behind locked doors, animals are being used in experiments. Now, you can do something about it. Next time you receive a solicitation from your alma mater, use PETA's "Donation Withheld" stickers to indicate that you are withholding your donation until the institution stops cruel animal testing. More

Cruelty to Animals: Your Donation Dollars at Work The American Cancer Society (ACS) is its own out-of-control malignancy. The ACS has bankrolled horrific experiments on cats, frogs, mice, and other animals. For example, the ACS has induced stomach ulcers in monkeys and left the diseased animals untreated and in pain while forcing them to live alone in isolation chambers during a nine-month study. More

Cruelty-Free Company of the Month: Aveda Blazing the cruelty-free trail is the Aveda Corporation, a leading manufacturer of shampoos, conditioners, hair-styling products, cleansers, perfumes, makeup, and spa products. Founded in 1978 by Horst Rechelbacher, Aveda uses freshly distilled plants and flower essences to create hair, skin, makeup, and body-care products based on aromatherapy. More

Cruelty-Free Health Charities Many of us find it difficult to say “no” when asked to donate to a charity seeking a cure for a disease. And how many of us can take the time to find out how that donation would be used? Would our money really alleviate suffering, or would our donation dollars actually contribute to suffering? PETA is here to answer the questions. More

Cutting-Edge Company: King of Shaves The latest company to sign PETA's cruelty-free statement of assurance is King of Shaves, which specializes in men's and women's shaving gels and skincare products. Founded in 1992 by Will King, King of Shaves started out selling one product every two weeks. More

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