Animal Testing Updates, PetSmart, Marshall Pet Products, New York (SUNY) College of Optometry, Japanese government & Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of AV Magazine!

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CELEBRATING THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AV MAGAZINE!
125 Years of AV Magazine
What’s inside the latest edition:
  • Issues of the Day:
    Reports on important news dating back to 1893.
  • Legacy in a Journal:
    AAVS Founder Caroline Earle White in her own words.
  • Magazine Memories:
    Recalling the 1980s, AAVS, and a renewed movement for animals. 
…and more!

Tell PetSmart to end their cruel ties to animal testing!
PetSmart carries a variety of Marshall Pet Products, a company with cruel ties to animal testing. 

 Marshall Pet Products sells toys, food and animal care products, but R+FP exposed that their partner company, Marshall BioResources, is also the largest U.S. supplier of beagles, ferrets and other animals to research! 

 R+FP shared details with PetSmart about Marshall BioResources’ Animal Welfare Act violations, reprehensible practices, and puppy-mill-like conditions, but they continue to sell Marshall Pet Product merchandise. 
 
Urge PetSmart to follow the lead of compassionate companies like Overstock.com and do the right thing—stop selling Marshall Pet Products. 

 You may want to tell them you will not shop at their store again until they do. Remind them that their shameful association with animal testing tarnishes their good reputation for promoting adoptions and saving lives. 

 Recently, we were happy to report that, after hearing from PETA scientists for the past three years, the Japanese government officially announced that it will stop requiring that year-long tests on dogs be conducted to study the effects of pesticides. During these tests, beagles are forced to eat pesticide-laced food or inhale pesticide fumes daily for a year and are then killed and dissected. Our scientists repeatedly provided evidence that data from these tests are not used to protect people. Now, after our appeal to South Korea, that government has decided to follow suit and eliminate this test as well!
At PETA's urging, the U.S. ended this same test in 2007, the European Union ended it in 2013, and Canada followed suit in 2016, sparing thousands of dogs annually. Japan and South Korea now join the growing list of countries that have made the right decision for dogs and for science.

 PETA is urging other countries, including Brazil, to end their requirements for one-year pesticide testing on dogs, and we are working to end all pesticide testing on dogs and all other animals.

 Our scientists couldn't do this lifesaving work without your support.

 Please take one more step to help animals by asking the FDA to accept superior non-animal methods in place of archaic and unreliable animal tests.
Since 2002, the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Optometry has been experimenting on the brains of cats — using federal taxpayer dollars — to understand the part of the feline brain controlling vision.
We don’t have all the details — because SUNY refuses to disclose the information — but what we do know sounds inhumane. The cats’ heads are mounted in frames, and their eyes are forced open with contact lenses. While alive, their skulls are removed and electrodes are inserted into their brains.
On June 21, 2018, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit representing Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research & Experimentation (CAARE) against the SUNY College of Optometry — demanding that they disclose records regarding the invasive experiments on cats and kittens.
Prior to our involvement, SUNY had already refused to release the records after receiving a request from CAARE under the New York Freedom of Information Law.