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Veterinary Pet Insurance Ensures Animals Are Dead The Iams Company has an 8.9 percent ownership in Veterinary Pet Services, Inc., parent company of the Veterinary Pet Insurance Company (VPI), for a total investment of $6 million. More

Veterinary Pet Insurance Financial Scandal The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) founder and CEO Jack Stephens, his wife, and son from their jobs at VPI amid allegations of financial improprieties. More

Veterinary Pet Insurance Financial Scandal The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) founder and CEO Jack Stephens, his wife, and son from their jobs at VPI amid allegations of financial improprieties. More

Victory: Coca-Cola Pulls Funding for Animal Tests! On the heels of rival PepsiCo's decision to drop funding for animal tests, multibillion-dollar beverage-industry giant Coca-Cola has agreed to end its animal tests! More

Vienna, Austria Whistleblower On April 23, 2003, Iams shipped 95 bags of “Experimental Dry Pet Food” to the laboratory of Jürgen Zentek located in Vienna, Austria. Zentek holds the Iams chair in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Vienna, and his position is purportedly financed by Iams. More

We Support the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade! Experts estimate that every 12 minutes an American woman dies of breast cancer, and it is the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 40 and 59. More

We Support the Birth Defect Research for Children Charity! Birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, with the percentage of infant deaths resulting from birth defects mushrooming from 7 percent in 1919 to 19.7 percent in 1999. More

We Support the Birth Defect Research for Children Charity! Do you want to help prevent birth defects but not know which charity to give to? Let us help. More

We Support the Children's Cancer Association! Without harming animals, as some cancer charities do, the Children's Cancer Association (CCA) provides parents struggling to learn how to best care for their ailing children with the resources that they need and the support that they deserve while enriching the lives of sick children by giving them an outlet for anger, fear, anxiety, and boredom, allowing them to just be kids in the midst of frightening, painful, and lonely illnesses. More

We Support the National Association for the Visually Handicapped Fifty years ago, Lorraine Marchi learned the difference between "blind" and "visually impaired" when her son's school would not provide adequate large-print materials for him. To prevent this frustrating problem from affecting other parents, Marchi started the National Association for the Visually Handicapped (NAVH). More

We've Made a List and Checked It Twice--Which Charities Are Naughty and Nice Before you write a check to a health charity, check PETA's "naughty" and "nice" list to find out which charities fund cruel experiments on animals and which save lives without taking them. More

What the March of Dimes Does to Animals Will Turn Your Stomach Gourmet chefs, caterers, and local celebrity cooks are taking part in the March of Dimes’ Star Chefs or Chef’s Auction fundraisers, which are currently being held nationwide. But if the participants--and attendees--knew what the March of Dimes does to animals, they’d lose their appetites. Here’s what the March of Dimes does and what you can do to help stop the cruelty! More

Which Cruelty-Free Fragrance Is Best for Your Sign? It's in the stars that you should check out this astrological guide to see which cruelty-free perfume or cologne was More

Whistleblower ORPRC is one of eight monkey-experiment hellholes entitled Regional Primate Research Centers (RPRCs), funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and touted as a jewel of the biomedical research industry. Matt Rossell, a resident of Portland, Oregon, 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. More

Whistleblower Exposes Culture of Cruelty at UC Denver and Health Sciences Center The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center has violated federal law and the university's own policies on animals in laboratories, says a whistleblower who worked there as an animal care technician for more than five years. More

Win a Cruelty-Free 'Laundry Care Bundle' From method! Everyone knows that washing dirty duds can make for a dull day, but method's new softener-infused dryer cloths make doing laundry fresh and fun. More

Win Vegan Chocolates From Pangea! Surprise Your Sweetie This Valentine's Day With Cruelty-Free Chocolates From Pangea—Enter to Win! More

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