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Giant Tampon Stops Flow of Traffic While many crucial women’s health projects go unfunded, Columbia University is squandering millions of dollars in federal grants on experiments in which researchers jam metal pipes into caged monkeys’ skulls to “study the connection between stress and women’s menstrual cycles.” More

Give the Animals 5 Right this minute in laboratories across the U.S., rabbits are confined to stocks while chemicals eat away the soft skin on their backs, right down to the muscle and tissue beneath. More

Give the Animals 5 Simple, effective alternatives to five common animal tests. More

Gloria Steinem to NIH: Stop 'Triple Injustice' of 'Cruelty, Fraud, and Waste'! Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has charged the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with putting women's health at risk and wasting tax dollars by funding cruel and pointless animal experiments. More

Gunnison Valley High School Live Dog Experiment Ends in a Victory for Animals! Outraged parents and students react to invasive Gunnison Valley High School experiment involving a living dog. More

Health Charities: Helping or Hurting Richard Pryor is at the helm of PETA’s new campaign targeting health charities that still fund experiments on animals. The legendary comedian, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, is adamantly opposed to inflicting pain and death on animals in old-fashioned medical studies. More

Heather Mills McCartney Wants You to Buy Cruelty-Free--Find Out Why! Lady Heather Mills McCartney, who stars in PETA's latest ad encouraging people to become caring consumers, is dedicated to promoting cruelty-free living worldwide. More

Help Modernize Medical Education The majority of medical schools in the United States, including Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, have replaced their use of live animals in physiology, pharmacology, and/or surgical-training exercises with humane and effective non-animal teaching methods (e.g., observation of actual human cardiac bypass surgery, patient simulators, cadavers, sophisticated computer programs, etc.). More

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Horrific Abuse of Monkeys Exposed at ONPRC Millions of taxpayer dollars support this facility that confines more than 4,000 monkeys who are used for cruel studies. Watch the video now. More

Horses Bled to Death in Turkey PETA has obtained undercover video footage showing horses violently dragged to the ground with ropes so that their necks can be slashed with a scalpel while they are completely conscious. More

Iams Announcement Shows That the ASPCA and HSUS Worked Behind the Scenes to Help Iams, Rather Than Help the Animals On October 7, 2004, three days before the presentation of PETA’s resolution to Procter & Gamble (P&G) shareholders to stop all of Iams’ laboratory tests on animals, Iams announced that it would instead stop using private contract and university laboratories by October 2006. More

Iams Campaign Updates Despite attempts to fool people into believing otherwise, Iams continues to conduct laboratory tests on animals, even though these tests are not necessary and are not required by law. More

Iams Chief Jeff Ansell, We're Back on Your Block! On October 31, Halloween night, PETA’s Iams Avengers once again fanned out over the Cincinnati neighborhood of Iams Company president Jeff Ansell with a message: Iams should treat dogs and cats right! More

Iams Exec Criticizes Laboratory Tests! Iams should have no trouble patenting doublespeak. The company is an expert at talking out of both sides of its mouth—whatever suits the moment is what is endorsed. More

Iams Flips the Bird at Validated Non-Animal Tests! Iams continues to use an old-fashioned test that other companies have rejected! More

Iams Funds Cruel Researcher From Wright State University Larry Arlian, busted by PETA in 1992, supported by Iams More

Iams Hires Vivisector as New Director of Veterinary Services It should come as no surprise that Iams has hired an old-school animal experimenter as director of its veterinary services division. Dr. Glen Hoffsis, former dean of the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine and a "food animal" consultant, was hired to help Iams link up with veterinary schools, conduct research, promote its pet insurance products, and help expand its chain of pet diagnostic centers. More

Iams Kills Dogs and Birds! Who is veterinarian Martin Coffman, who lives in Saint Stephens, Alabama, and keeps beagles in wire hutches that don't even allow them to stand to their full height? Well, Dr. Coffman works for Iams! More

Iams Promoting Cat Cloning Read how Iams is promoting and contributing to the cat overpopulation crisis More

Iams Puts Animal Hunter on Its ‘Animal Care’ Advisory Board What if you turned on your television and an ad for Iams was airing? In the ad, men dressed in camouflage were blowing small, fragile birds out of the sky with big guns and then sending their dogs to retrieve the mutilated bodies. More

Iams Slimes In a desperate attempt to gain approval for its inherently cruel and worthless laboratory experiments on dogs and cats, Iams is touting the support that it has received from the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA). More

Iams Sponsors Hunting Championship Iams has given $25,000 to the National Field Trial Championship, a “sport” hunting event in which dogs are used to hunt quail. More

Iams’ Animal Care Advisory Board Life for animals in laboratories is filled with days, weeks, months, and years of loneliness, suffering, pain, and fear. While a toy, a resting board, or a few minutes of “socialization” (if provided) may slightly ease the horrors of imprisonment, they do not make animal experimentation humane. More

IamsCruelty Neighborhood Leafleting On September 1, 2004, PETA’s “Iams Avengers” visited the Cincinnati neighborhoods of Iams President Jeff Ansell and P&G CEO A.G. Lafley. More

Iamsick of Iams! Why does Iams make dogs (and those who love them) sick? More

Imagine Having Your Body Left to Science While You’re Still in It More than 2,500 primates are imprisoned within the walls of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center (ORPRC). A Portland, Oregon, resident who worked as an animal technician at ORPRC for two years exposed the place as a chamber of horrors when he quit and went public in August 2000. What he found will horrify you. More

Internet Sensation Cindy Margolis Joins PETA’s “Iams Cruelty” Campaign Cindy Margolis has a bone to pick with pet-food maker Iams. The self-made entrepreneur, actor, and Internet phenomenon—heralded as the world’s “most downloaded woman” and named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People” by People magazine—has joined PETA’s campaign against Iams and vows to boycott the company until it stops conducting cruel and deadly experiments on dogs and cats. More

Investigation Exposes Animal Suffering at University of Utah Labs For more than eight months in 2009, a PETA investigator worked undercover inside the laboratories of the University of Utah (UU) in Salt Lake City and documented miserable conditions for and terrible suffering of the dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, mice, rabbits, frogs, cows, pigs, and sheep confined there. More

Iowa Health-Des Moines Puts Compassion Into Action Victory! Iowa Health–Des Moines Ends Use of Animals for Advanced Trauma Life Support Training More

It’s Easy to Make a Compassionate Choice--and Save Animal Lives While there has been a significant reduction in the number of animals used to test household and beauty products over the last decade--thanks, in large part, to PETA’s hard-hitting Anti-Vivisection Campaign, which has helped to convince more than 500 companies to stop animal tests--many other companies, including Procter & Gamble, Clorox, S.C. Johnson, and more, still test their products on animals. More

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