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Save the Easter Bunny! Spring is in the air, and the Easter bunny is on his way. More

Shareholder Resolution Campaign Bullish on animals: PETA’s shareholder-resolution campaign pays dividends for animals. More

Shelters, Veterinarians, and Retail Stores Boycott Iams Showing a groundswell of support for the boycott of Iams products, almost 100 animal shelters, veterinarians, and companion-animal supply stores have severed their ties with Iams. More

Sir Paul Blasts WWF Over Animal Testing Sir Paul McCartney has written to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) asking that it immediately stop promoting an enormous new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program that would kill tens of millions of wild and domestic animals in painful tests of chemicals already on the market, even some chemicals that have been previously tested. More

Sizzling Summer Specials This summer, protect your skin with cruelty-free skin care products from the PETA Mall. Choose from a variety of selections, and when you’re ready to hit the beach or a shady park bench, take along one of the books or CDs that we’ve selected for your summer reading and listening pleasure. More

Special Delivery for Iams: Animal Tests Stink! The next time your dog relieves him- or herself, don’t just pitch it, post it! Send a “doggie bag” to Iams’ president Jeffrey Ansell in the U.S. or Bill Miller at Iams in Canada along with a note telling them that animal tests stink. More

Stop Cruel DOT Animal Tests The Department of Transportation (DOT) is about as compassionate as a hit and run driver when it comes to animals. The DOT has sanctioned hideously cruel skin-corrosivity experiments to test hazardous chemicals on rabbits despite the fact these tests are completely unnecessary since there is a federally approved, non-animal test called Corrositexª available. More

Stop EPA Animal Tests Rather than working to reduce emissions and prevent human and environmental exposures to toxic chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has instead chosen to establish “acceptable” exposure levels based on the results of animal tests. In fact, the EPA requires more animal-based chemical toxicity testing than any other federal agency. More

Stop March of Dimes Animal Tests With the worthy goal of preventing birth defects, the March of Dimes collects millions of dollars in donations annually. But most donors who generously open their pocketbooks are unaware that their gifts help to fund painful experiments on animals. More

Teaching Abuse University of Nevada at Reno Facing Allegations of Animal Abuse, Neglect, and Violations of Federal Safety Guidelines More

Tell UW-Madison to Stop Cruel Taser Experiments on Pigs! University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor John Webster plans to conduct a lethal experiment in which live pigs will be electrocuted in order to satisfy claims that the Taser is safe. More

The American Vitiligo Research Foundation: Research Without Animals When Stella Pavlides was diagnosed with vitiligo, a skin condition that causes a lack of skin pigment and extreme sensitivity to sunlight, she wanted to become active in raising awareness about it. Pavlides soon discovered that vitiligo charities funded cruel experiments on animals. More

The Body Shop and Tom's of Maine: Still Cruelty-Free Recently, two pioneering makers of cruelty-free products--The Body Shop and Tom's of Maine--were acquired by large multinational companies--L'Oreal and Colgate, respectively. More

The Cincinnati Zoo Is Breeding Domestic Cats and Shipping Them Off to a Filthy Lab Imagine what it would be like to be bred at a zoo to undergo a litany of reproductive experiments and then be shipped off to live in a cramped cage at a notorious laboratory testing facility that has been repeatedly cited by federal authorities for significant violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA). More

The Hidden Life of Baboons Like most animals who live far away from humans, baboons are known only by stereotypes created by movies and the media. More

The Hidden Life of Rats and Mice Highly intelligent rodents, rats, and mice are natural students who excel at learning and understanding concepts. Both mice and rats are also highly sociable animals. They become attached to each other, love their own families, and easily bond with their human guardians, returning as much affection as is given to them. More

The Hidden Lives of Frogs Frogs are best known for their webbed feet and flying leaps, but these complex, sensitive animals have many other amazing characteristics and capabilities. More

The Hidden Lives of Monkeys Macaques are Old World monkeys found in Africa and Asia. The most distinguishing feature between Old World monkeys and New World monkeys (those found in the Americas) is that only New World monkeys have prehensile tails that can be used for grabbing and holding. More

The Lymphoma Foundation of America: Helping People Without Hurting Animals The Lymphoma Foundation of America (LFA) is one of the many compassionate charities saving human lives without ever ending an animal's life. Started in 1986, the Virginia-based foundation has provided essential support services to patients with lymphoma, a type of cancer of the lymphatic system, and their families. More

The Military’s War on Animals News programs aired ghastly video footage from Afghanistan that shows dogs dying agonizing deaths in al-Qaeda military experiments. One tape shows a dog trapped in a room with vapor rising. The dog begins licking his lips (increased saliva is one of the first signs of poisoning), loses control of his hindquarters, and is eventually seen lying on his back, moaning. More

The Necessity of Equality For his parting shot to a career marked with controversial deeds and politically incorrect advocacy, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) inserted language into the Farm Bill that permanently excludes the millions of birds, rats, and mice used in painful experiments from receiving even minimal protection under the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Sadly, the bill was passed by Congress on May 8, 2002. More

The Palmer Chiropractic University System Palmer subjects rats to cruel and deadly spinal experiments (in fact, it even proposed using scissors to cut off the front legs and tails of more than 100 rats) and has added cats to its list of victims despite the fact that one of its own “researchers” questions the value to human patients. More

The Sum of All EPA Experiments Q. What does the EPA do when evidence shows that workers exposed to atrazine on the job get cancer? More

The Wicked World Wildlife Fund The World Wildlife Fund (also known as the Worldwide Fund for Nature, or simply WWF) has been actively pressuring government agencies in the U.S., Europe, and Canada to increase the amount of testing that they require for pesticides and other chemicals. The result of the WWF’s lobbying has been the establishment of what threaten to be the largest animal-testing programs of all time. More

This Is Christmas PETA launched its newest Iams Campaign ad in Dayton, Ohio, Iams’ hometown, on December 18. The ad, the first in a series, focuses on just one of the dogs cruelly used by Iams for its “metabolic tests.” More

This Is Sally PETA launched its newest Iams Campaign ads in Dayton, Ohio, Iams’ hometown, on December 18. “This is Sally,” the latest installment in the four-ad series, features a dog named Sally who spent six years at the Iams contract laboratory that PETA investigated. More

Torture Chamber Exposed Screen Prince of Darkness Christopher Lee knows a thing or two about terror and torture! The horror film legend took time off from filming the next Star Wars movie to record a new PETA radio spot, in which he tells listeners, “When you donate money to the American Heart Association, you help fund cruel, pointless experiments on animals. Please don’t support any charity that kills.” More

Trista and Ryan Pledge to Love, Honor, and Respect Animals America’s favorite sweethearts made a special vow to PETA. Trista and Ryan--who married December 10, 2003, in front of millions of fans on their hugely popular show, Trista & Ryan’s Wedding--took time out of their busy prenuptial schedules to join PETA’s campaign against Iams. More

Two Paws Up for PetGuard’s New Organic Vegetarian Dog Food! Company makes organic vegetarian dog food without testing on animals caged in laboratories. More

U.K. Court Rules That PETA Europe Should Be Allowed to Show Video of Monkey Abuse Inside Covance Lab When PETA went public with the findings of its 11-month investigation of a Covance laboratory in Vienna, Virginia, Covance sought an injunction in the U.K., temporarily preventing PETA Europe from showing the undercover footage. On June 16, Judge Langan dismissed the injunction, calling the video showing verbal and physical assault on primates More

UNC Didn’t Learn Its Lesson A PETA undercover investigator went back inside the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, laboratories one year after we documented callous disregard and outright abuse of animals there. Had UNC cleaned up its act, given that hundreds of millions of dollars in research funds were at stake? More

UNC Investigation 2 UNC didn’t learn it’s lesson. More

University of North Carolina Investigation UNC-Chapel Hill receives millions in taxpayer dollars yet, as PETA can now show, does not provide even the minimal standards of care to animals used in federally funded research as required by the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Chronic understaffing, incompetence, indifference, neglect, and outright cruelty have resulted in the denial of such basic needs as adequate space, food, water, veterinary care, and even a humane death to rats and mice at UNC. More

Update: New Photographs From Columbia’s Cruel Labs Raymond Stark is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He likes to conduct experiments on pregnant baboons and their fetuses, infusing nicotine and morphine into the mothers to measure the transfer of these substances through the umbilical cord. More

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