When it comes to animal testing, no experiment is illegal, no matter how irrelevant to human health or painful. 

Updates on Petitions You've Signed: Citigroup: Stop Donating to the New York Blood Center until it Reinstates Funding for Abandoned Chimps

update: Jan 20, 2016

author: Donny Moss

Thank you for signing our petition to Citigroup. We have over 96,000 signatures and will deliver it when we reach 100,000. If you haven't already, please do encourage others to sign. For news and updates on the ongoing campaign to save the chimps abandoned...
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Here’s Proof Beagles Belong Snuggled on Laps Not in Labs. It is no secret that beagles are awesome dogs. With their calm, docile nature, and eager to please dispositions, it is no wonder that they are currently one of the most popular dog breeds in America. But unfortunately, their popularity doesn’t stop there. Beagles are also the dog of choice for animal experimentation in research facilities. All across the U.S., beagles are used to test everything from household products to pharmaceuticals and prosthetics.

The Beagle Freedom Project is an organization dedicated to rescuing and rehoming of America’s research beagles and their staff works tirelessly to ensure that these animals have a place to go, when the research facilities are “done” with them. So far, their valiant efforts have led to the rescue of hundreds of unwanted research dogs, deserving animals like this one, who is now free to enjoy a snooze in his new home.

This is where beagles belong … not in concrete labs.

Animal experimentation is a bit of a dirty little secret in the U.S., particularly as it pertains to dogs. No doubt, many people would object to the practice, if only they knew… In labs, beagles never get to experience what it means to be anything but a test subject. They are given numbers and treated as non-feeling objects. They never learn what kindness is like or even see the outdoors – let alone grass. Some dogs used in experiments have their voice boxes removed, so they are forced to endure this suffering in silence. Which is why we must be their voice.

If you would like to learn more about the Beagle Freedom Project and find out how you can help, please visit their website here. Image source: Beagle Freedom Project/Facebook

I am outraged. And you should be too. Chimpanzees Hercules and Leo, two of our New York plaintiffs, were recently taken back to Louisiana's infamous New Iberia Research Center. NIRC has a documented history of providing living conditions far below those of Save the Chimps, which has already agreed to accept Hercules and Leo.

But now, Susan Larson — who conducted locomotion experiments on Hercules and Leo for six years at Stony Brook — is BLAMING YOU, me, and every Hercules and Leo supporter for getting them sent back to New Iberia. But don't take my word for it.

Larson: "when Steven Wise and the NhRP inserted themselves into the situation, everything became complicated ... Stony Brook and NIRC both agreed that continuing to house them here while the legal wrangling was going on was not good for them, so they were returned [to New Iberia] " (Science, 1/8/16).

Make no mistake: This outrageous attack isn't about me. It's an attack on everyone who believes that Hercules and Leo have suffered long enough and shouldn't spend the rest of their lives at the same institution that loaned them out for experiments.

Please follow this link to fight back with an urgent tax-deductible donation to the Hercules and Leo Fund.

“We’re shifting from a legal to a political campaign."

That’s what I just told Science Magazine about our new campaign strategy to get Hercules and Leo to sanctuary.

Now we must build intensity where it counts most: with the new Governor of Louisiana.
Because New Iberia is part of the state university system, we believe pressure from the Governor could be pivotal to the success of our new campaign.

Join us and demand that Governor John Bel Edwards assist in the transfer of Hercules and Leo to Save the Chimps sanctuary, which has generously offered to pay for their care for the rest of their lives. Here, Hercules and Leo can finally know something of a normal life, outdoors, amongst a thriving social group of their own kind, where they'll never be used in experiments again.

World-renowned primatologist and NhRP Board Member Dr. Jane Goodall says this about our campaign: "I have followed the sad lives of both Hercules and Leo to date, and I urge New Iberia to allow them to retire and live out the remainder of their lives with dignity."

If you agree with Dr. Goodall, please follow this link to fight back with an urgent tax-deductible donation to the Hercules and Leo Fund.

Hercules and Leo have suffered enough. Please stand with us and demand their immediate release to sanctuary. We'll see you in court!

Can You Guess What Cruelty GUESS Is Still Selling?

GUESS knows that workers violently rip fur out of rabbits' skin to obtain angora, but the company doesn't seem to mind. HELP TORTURED RABBITS

This Group is Funding Experimenters—And We Support Them. Sometimes, saving animals from being cut up, burned, blinded, poisoned, and killed in the name of “science” comes down to getting advanced non-animal methods approved and into experimenters’ hands. And that’s where the PETA International Science Consortium (PISC) comes in.

An article in STAT, a national health, medicine, and scientific discovery publication, spotlights the more than $200,000 that PISC plans to spend this year to support scientists and companies that are working toward methods to replace animals in experimentation.

Some of the projects that PETA and PISC have funded include helping to purchase more than $2 million worth of lifelike TraumaMan simulators to replace pigs and goats in painful and deadly trauma training courses, providing financial backing to help validate MatTek‘s laboratory-grown skin, and supporting the development of advanced computer models that can predict how certain molecules affect the human body.

All this cutting-edge technology not only saves animals’ lives, it also produces accurate results that are relevant to humans—unlike animal experiments. PISC is funding the future of science, and it’s never looked brighter.

OU HIT WITH USDA FINE!

SAEN - Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!

Jan 22, 2016 — BREAKING NEWS - Due to SAEN's investigative prowess, the USDA just issued a whopping $19,143 FINE against University of Oklahoma (OU) for Animal Welfare Violations dated from Jan. 2014 - Jan. 2015, involving OU's cruelty to guinea pigs and baboons.

Expect MORE to rain on OU as SAEN has discovered EVEN MORE new violations NOT part of this latest penalty. SAEN can dig up OU's malfeancse BUT we need YOU to stand up to be an effective voice for the baboons, guinea pigs, dogs, and countless more imprisoned inside OU right NOW!

1) DONATE: To maintain the pressure needed to bring down OU, we need your support! Please donate @ www.SAENonline.org/donation.html

2) CONTACT the USDA to SLAP repeat violator OU with ANOTHER FINE!

Dr. Robert Gibbens, Director, Western Region, USDA
Robert.M.Gibbens@aphis.usda.gov; acwest@aphis.usda.gov
(970) 494-7478

Sample Message:
Thank you for levying a $19,143 fine against University of Oklahoma (OU). However, serious and deadly federal violations at this facility have continued. So, please levy ANOTHER FINE against OU for their blatant disregard of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) when their negligence killed a dog and 5 guinea pigs. This repeat offender's behavior must NOT be tolerated and MUST be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

3) CHECK OUT SAEN's continuing, expansive EXPOSURE of OU in the MEDIA:
http://www.SAENonline.org/res-fr-ok-uo.html

THANK YOU! Your involvement does make positive changes for the animals!

https://www.change.org/p/tell-univ-of-oklahoma-to-provide-baboons-sanctuary-vs-transfer-to-a-research-lab

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Tell the University of Oklahoma to Send Imprisoned Baboons to a Sanctuary!

The University of Oklahoma (OU) has announced that it will be closing its facility that breeds baboons for cruel and deadly experiments. However, the fate of the hundreds of baboons still imprisoned at the school remains unclear.

OU has a long history of cruel and negligent treatment of animals in its laboratories, including baboons at the school's breeding facility. Between 2013 and 2015, at least 51 baboons, including several infants, died at the facility—very often, according to one report, "in violent, gruesome ways." Monkeys sustained "trauma-related" injuries, were crushed during transport, suffocated, and were left to suffer and eventually die from untreated parasitic infestations.

The university's decision to close its nightmarish breeding facility comes on the heels of several other major victories for primates, including an announcement that all federally owned chimpanzees would be retired to sanctuaries, Harvard's decision to shut down its notorious primate experimentation center, and the National Institutes of Health's decision to end its maternal deprivation experiments on infant monkeys.

Please join PETA in urging OU to send its remaining baboons to a sanctuary, where they can live out the rest of their lives in peace, and also fund their care.

Progress! National Institutes of Health Promotes Cruelty-Free Research. PETA’s efforts to persuade the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to phase out antiquated animal experiments in favor of modern, humane research are resulting in significant progress. NIH just released its five-year strategic plan, and it includes efforts to reduce and replace animal experiments.

The plan includes animal-friendly language such as this gem:

“Petri dish and animal models often fail to provide good ways to mimic disease or predict how drugs will work in humans, resulting in much wasted time and money while patients wait for therapies. To address that challenge, NIH, DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency], and FDA [Food and Drug Administration] are collaborating to develop 3D platforms engineered to support living human tissues and cells, called tissue chips or organs-on-chips. An integrated body-on-a-chip is the ultimate goal.”

PETA and the PETA International Science Consortium have for years been urging NIH to make such a move, including by submitting recommendations for the aforementioned strategic plan. And we’ve seen success with NIH in other areas recently as well. The agency ended its torturous psychological experiments on baby monkeys that PETA has been fighting practically since our inception, and it recently promised to retire all federally owned chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories to sanctuaries.

A few such chimpanzees have been retired, but many more still wait, so please encourage NIH to keep the momentum going and let these animals go to sanctuaries now.

TELL NIH TO SEND CHIMPANZEES TO A SANCTUARY NOW!

Tell Russia Not to Send Monkeys Into Space!

Animals aren't astronauts. Yet Russia is taking a giant step backward for science and ethics with a misguided mission to dispatch four monkeys to Mars.

There's no reason to repeat the dark days of early space exploration, in which dogs, primates, and other animals died in horrific ways, including in crude experiments or all alone in a tiny spacecraft.

Primates are sensitive and intelligent animals, and they're likely to experience extreme distress during the years of tests and training leading up to a mission. And if they're eventually unwillingly sent hurtling through space on what may be a suicide mission, they'll be terrified and unable to understand what is happening to them.

NASA, the European Space Agency and the Chinese National Space Administration all choose to advance space exploration without using primates. Russia needs to do the same.

Please sign our petition to be delivered to the Russian Embassy, urging the Russian Federal Space Agency to stop this ill-advised mission and send the monkeys to a sanctuary instead.

Don't Send Monkeys to Mars

Please abandon plans to send four rhesus macaque monkeys to Mars in 2017, and let them live out the rest of their lives at a sanctuary instead.

Animals aren't astronauts and, unlike human volunteers, cannot give their consent to risking their lives on a mission into the unknown. These intelligent, sensitive primates would suffer immensely during the years of stressful tests and training--as well as if they're launched on a terrifying and, to them, incomprehensible voyage from which they're unlikely to return.

Other pioneering space agencies use high-tech 21st-century technology, rather than c