In Northern Ireland, breaches of the law supposedly protecting animals used in experiments have risen for the third time in four years. Among the incidents, experimenters failed to provide mice and birds with food and water and confined them to tiny cages – smaller than… Read More »Animals Left to Starve in Northern Irish Laboratories
Good news for mice in Australia! The University of South Australia (UniSA) has confirmed on its website that it will no longer permit the use of the widely discredited and cruel forced swim test. The decision comes after PETA Australia, Humane Research Australia, and thousands… Read More »A Uni Down Under, the University of South Australia, Comes out on Top for Mice
Last week, ahead of World Day for Animals in Laboratories (24 April), people all across Italy spotted these crying “monkeys”: As curious spectators gathered, PETA supporters and Italian animal protection organisations arrived to share details about the confinement of highly social monkeys to laboratory cages.… Read More »‘Crying Monkeys’ Protest Against Tests on Animals
Ahead of World Day for Animals in Laboratories on the 24th April, “grim reapers” haunted the University of Bristol for tormenting and killing rats. The ‘Grim Reapers’ are a haunting reminder for Vice Chancellor Brady to drop the cruel forced swim test before he leaves… Read More »PETA Haunts the University Of Bristol with Grim Reapers
Oscar-winning actor Sir Mark Rylance – who just finished performing in Dr Semmelweiss at the Bristol Old Vic – sent a letter to the University of Bristol’s vice-chancellor, Hugh Brady, appealing to him to end the university’s use of the “cruel and useless” forced swim… Read More »Mark Rylance Urges the University of Bristol to Stop Tormenting Animals
Heavy metal band Lordihas teamed up with PETA for a new campaign denouncing something truly horrifying: invasive and painful experiments are still being conducted on animals in the EU with no plan in place to end the suffering. The band is supporting the Save Cruelty… Read More »Lordi Bands Together With PETA to Condemn ‘Monstrous’ Tests on Animals
Long-time animal ally Sir Paul McCartney is throwing his weight behind the Save Cruelty-Free Cosmetics European Citizens’ Initiative. “We all thought the battle was over and that cosmetics tests on animals in Europe were a thing of the past, but sadly, that’s not the case.… Read More »Paul McCartney Says ‘Come Together’ and Uphold Animal Testing Ban – Will You Join Him?
As an early valentine for University of Bristol Vice-Chancellor Hugh Brady, Mayor of the West of England Dan Norris and PETA’s rat mascot – decked out as Cupid – gave the University of Bristol a pointed message. We gathered outside the Wills Memorial Building with… Read More »PETA Urges University of Bristol to Have a Heart for Animals
Across the EU, animals are used in painful, drawn-out experiments that actually serve us no purpose and for which there is no need. Do you know which animals are hurt? Here are just five of the many animals tested on in EU laboratories. They all… Read More »5 Animals Tested On in EU Laboratories
Despite the mountains of evidence showing that tests on animals are cruel and unreliable, chemicals are still being applied to the eyes of live rabbits in an attempt to predict whether a substance will cause eye irritation in humans. This test – known as the… Read More »PETA Science Consortium Donates Over £14,000 of Equipment to Spare Rabbits Agony in Eye Irritation Tests
