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PepsiCo Declares No More Animal Tests! Food-industry giant PepsiCo—the multibillion-dollar parent company of brands like Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Tropicana, Quaker Oats, and Gatorade—has joined the ever-growing list of companies that are creating innovative products without using animals in laboratory tests. More

Pet-Supply Stores Join the Iams Campaign Joy Drawdy, owner of Earth Pets Natural Pet Market in Gainesville, Florida, was worried when she learned that Iams had been bought out by Procter & Gamble (P&G), a corporation with a history of animal tests. More

PETA Dogs Columbia University President Over Experiments Holding signs showing photos of one of the baboons maimed and tormented in a Columbia University laboratory experiment, PETA followed Columbia University president nationwide. More

PETA Fights Animal Trauma Labs—and Wins! Thinking about going to medical school? If so, chances are that you may be asked to inflict traumatic injuries on live dogs, pigs, or goats in the deadly "Advanced Trauma Life Support" (ATLS) surgery course. More

PETA Files Complaint With FTC Against Iams PETA has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against the Iams Company of Dayton, Ohio, and its parent, Procter & Gamble (P&G), headquartered in Cincinnati, for making allegedly false claims on the Iams Web site regarding its care of the cats and dogs the company uses in its research and product development. More

PETA Introduces P&G/Iams Shareholder Resolution PETA has submitted a shareholder proposal to be voted on at the upcoming Procter & Gamble (P&G) annual meeting taking place October 12 in Cincinnati, Ohio. More

PETA Launches Corporate Giving Guide In an effort to boost cruelty-free health charities’ bottom line while saving animal lives, PETA is appealing to Fortune 500 companies to give only to “life-saver charities” that help people without hurting animals. More

PETA Launches New "Despicable" Ad Series in Columbia University Paper In the latest salvo of its campaign to persuade Columbia University to permanently end three series of deadly experiments on primates, PETA is running three ads, each containing a shocking photo of an actual monkey in a Columbia laboratory, along with a graphic description of the experiment and the tagline "Which Is More Despicable"-alluding to those who carry out the studies and those who fund them, respectively. More

PETA Names the 10 Worst CEOs for Animals in Laboratories This is one "top 10" list that no CEO wants to be on, but these CEOs earned their spots on the list based on their companies' histories of federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations, the number of animals killed, the most painful and invasive experiments, and an unwillingness to make humane improvements. More

PETA Petitions EPA to Pull the Plug on "Brain Dead" Animal Test A massive animal-poisoning test being pushed by children's health and environmental advocates as a means of protecting kids from the harmful effects of pesticides is, in reality, doing just the opposite. More

PETA Petitions EPA to Scrap 'Gender Bender' Tests on Wildlife Killing millions of wild animals in the name of “environmental protection”—now there’s a warped idea—but that’s exactly what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to do. More

PETA Rewards Shelters for Ethical Decision to Dump Iams Find out which animal shelters joined the Iams boycott and won $1,500! More

PETA Sues EPA for Refusing to Scrap 'Brain Dead' Animal Test A massive animal-poisoning test being pushed by children's health and environmental advocates as a means of protecting kids from the harmful effects of pesticides is, in reality, doing just the opposite. More

PETA to "Pet:" Food Industry: Lay Off the Animals For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an Iams contract testing laboratory and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer. More

PETA to Columbia Board of Trustees: Help the Animals! PETA’s senior vice president of research & investigations, Mary Beth Sweetland, has fired off a letter to the 24 members of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, calling on the trustees to use their influence to help bring a permanent end to the experiments of Connolly, Stark, and Ferin. More

PETA to EPA: Enforce Animal Welfare Guidance Frustrated by years of EPA indifference and horrified by the mounting animal death toll in the HPV program, PETA files a legal petition demanding that EPA enforce its animal welfare guidance. More

PETA's Behind-the-Scenes Fight Against Animal Testing PETA's most visible anti-animal experimentation campaigns have focused on cosmetics testing labs, pet food trials, car-crash simulations, and more. However, one area of animal experimentation uses so many animals that it eclipses all those categories combined: regulatory tests. More

Philip Morris and Animal Testing Kids will be clamoring for PETA’s colorful new trading-card stickers featuring parodies of the popular cigarette brands Camel, Marlboro, Cool, and Salem. But when kids see the gruesome pictures on the backs of the cards, they’ll learn about yet another danger of smoking--cruelty to animals. More

Philip Morris to Build New Research Facility-Bad News for Animals Philip Morris is planning to build a new research facility in Richmond that appears to include an expanded animal research center. More

Photo of Angie Everhart Helps Launch Scrapbook of Stars Against Iams Posing at home with her four pampered pups and two frisky felines, Akron native Angie Everhart, who has graced the covers of dozens of magazines... More

Premarin: Prescription for Cruelty As unlikely as it sounds, the most widely prescribed drug in the United States is made from horse urine. The drug is Premarin, an estrogen substitute manufactured by Wyeth-Ayerst and taken by millions of women worldwide to ease the symptoms of menopause. Wyeth-Ayerst claims that Premarin’s “secret ingredient”--pregnant mares’ urine. More

Primate Fear From the jungle or savannah to the laboratory, every moment of the captured primate's experience is characterized by sickness, despair, fear, loneliness, and terror. More

Put Your Best Foot Forward With an At-Home Pedicure They’re your most dependable form of transportation and the perfect excuse for buying a closet full of cute nonleather shoes. Don’t your feet deserve a special treat? More

Put Your Tax Rebates to Work Fighting Government Cruelty Please help us reduce animal suffering caused by the very government that is sending you money! Please consider donating part or all of your tax rebate check to PETA’s campaign against hideous animal poisoning tests sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. More

Rabies Challenge Fund Supports Cruel Dog Experiments Kind people have donated to the Rabies Challenge Fund because they love dogs. However, the Rabies Challenge Fund uses its donations to fund cruel experiments on dogs. More

Real Time Host Bill Maher Sends an E-Mail Plea to Columbia University Faculty and Staff: Help Stop the “Frankensteining” of Primates Columbia University staffers were greeted with an unexpected e-mail message from Bill Maher urging them to join PETA’s campaign to permanently stop grotesque experiments on primates in Columbia’s research labs. More

Reese Witherspoon: New Face of Animal-Friendly Avon Charity Just in time for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Reese Witherspoon has teamed up with the Avon Foundation--a cruelty-free charity--to find a cure. More

Returning Iams Products Did you recently purchase an Iams product before learning about Iams’ cruel laboratory experiments on cats and dogs? Does Iams’ testing policy make you sick about using its products? If so, we encourage you to get a refund. More

Rock Icon Chrissie Hynde Calls for International Boycott of Iams Over Deadly Experiments on Dogs and Cats Chrissie Hynde has a bone to pick with pet-food maker Iams. The legendary Pretenders singer has joined PETA’s international campaign against Iams and vows to boycott the company until it stops conducting cruel and deadly experiments on dogs and cats. More

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