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Animal Experimenters Try to Force Airlines to Transport Monkeys to Their Deaths

They’re so desperate to get monkeys—who are nothing more than lab tools to them—that they’re going to court

A group supported by animal experimenters whose sole purpose is to promote the use of animals in laboratories is trying to force airlines to transport monkeys and other animals to laboratories. Please take action right now at the link below to oppose this.

The National Association of Biomedical Research, which collects donations to make sure that animals continue to be imprisoned, harmed, and killed in laboratories, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation that, if successful, will mean that airlines will have to fly monkeys from China and other countries to the U.S for use in experiments. Every commercial airline in the world but one, Air France, has banned this disgraceful practice, which has made it hard for U.S. laboratories to get monkeys as quickly and cheaply as they would like—so they want to force airlines to help them in their bloody business.

PETA investigations have shown what happens to monkeys in U.S. laboratories:
Primate laboratories in the U.S. have a dismal history of abuse. Nearly every one of them is now, or was recently, under federal investigation for violations of animal-protection laws. PETA eyewitness investigations of Primate Products, Covance, the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), and the University of Utah have shown what life is like for these sensitive, intelligent animals—even in the facilities that rake in hundreds of millions of tax dollars to experiment on them.

Federal records show that monkeys in laboratories have died by strangulation in their cages; when gauze was left in their bodies after surgery; when they were left in cages put through scalding-hot, high-temperature cages washers; when they escaped and no one noticed; and in other ways.

Then there is the fact that experiments on animals don’t work and are often just plain stupid—like the experiments at the ONPRC in which baby monkeys were frightened with Mr. Potato Head toys. Those cost taxpayers $750,000.

Like humans, monkeys deserve protection from forced participation in violent experiments. Please take action now by leaving polite comments—in defense of airlines’ choice not to contribute to senseless deaths—on this website:

Please check the box indicating you want to provide your contact information and choose “public comment” as the category.

How do you get away with murder? You do it in a laboratory and call it "medical research".

Each year, thousands of primates are poisoned, cut open, and tormented in European laboratories.

Locked in rows of cold, barren steel cages with no opportunity to have a life, no chance ever to climb a tree, forage, or play with their family and friends, these intelligent animals live in constant, unabated fear. Used in experiments, they may be injected repeatedly with chemical compounds or exposed to fatal diseases causing vomiting, diarrhoea, convulsions, haemorrhaging, and other awful effects before they are ultimately pulled out of their prison cells and killed.

Again and again, studies published in esteemed scientific journals find that experiments on non-human primates do not replicate human disease, yet experimenters have carte blanche to go on harming, frightening, and killing animals in laboratories as if no one had pointed this out.

Today, you have a special opportunity to help PETA stop cruel experiments and get animals out of laboratory prison cages.

Please be a part of "Cut It Out" – PETA's Animal Test Challenge today and double your impact on our work to end cruel experiments on animals. 

Animals don't voluntarily participate in experiments that scare the life out of them, cause them endless pain, and deprive them of all they care about. Macaques don't queue up to be pulled from their homes in Cambodia, China, Mauritius, and other countries; shoved into wooden crates for long, frightening journeys in air cargo holds; and shipped off to laboratories on the other side of the world. Monkeys born on squalid breeding farms are treated as mere test tubes with tails for experimenters to throw around, tie down, slice open, and kill. Every one of these animals experiences the same range of emotions that you and I do. Every one. Their joy is no different from ours – and neither is their fear, despair, or suffering..

It's no wonder that approximately 90 per cent of monkeys in laboratories exhibit severe stress-related behaviour. In undercover video, they can be seen rocking pitifully back and forth or spinning inside the metal boxes they are forced to live in, trembling in terror as they hear noises in the hall or, worse, the door opening and a masked, white-coated, giant human entering the room.

Stopping this horror for our fellow primates will take much more than bigger cages or more careful monitoring of experimenters. It will take the support of kind people such as you who share our determination to replace experiments on animals with innovative, human-relevant, non-animal methods. We can do that – we are doing that – but we must do a lot more.

Around the world, calls to end animal experiments are growing, but they must grow far louder. Your support during this special matching-gift challenge will help us inform regulators and other government officials about the cruelty of experiments on monkeys and other animals and enable our campaigners to reach more consumers. It'll also help ensure that effective, non-animal testing methods that already exist are held as the standard – and allow us to develop more.


Amazing news! 
Thanks to you, the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, SB 1249, has been signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown!
First and foremost, thank you—we cannot thank you enough. Over the past eight months, thousands of PCRM members contacted their state representatives and the governor, attended hearings, donated to the cause, and encouraged friends to get active. You showed that California will not stand for cruelty in its products.
Starting Jan. 1, 2020, any cosmetics tested on animals, or that contain ingredients tested on animals, will not be allowed to be sold in California, with some exceptions for direct regulatory requirements. All cosmetics and ingredients must be tested using nonanimal methods. This law will affect not only California but all cosmetics sold across the United States. And it is thanks to you.
Again, thank you for your dedication to protecting animals by supporting this historic legislation.
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Victory! California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act Is Law

The Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act—co-sponsored by the Physicians Committee—has been signed into law! Starting Jan. 1, 2020, animal-tested cosmetics will not be allowed to be sold in California. Video
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Billboards Urge Vanderbilt University to End Animal Use for Doctor Training

The Physicians Committee recently held a demonstration, installed billboards, and delivered a petition urging Vanderbilt University to end animal use in its emergency medicine residency training.  Take Action
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Following an outlandish study on octopuses, US experimenters want to carry out further testing of psychiatric drugs on these highly intelligent animals – even though the results of animal testing are unreliable and inapplicable to humans.
Seven octopuses – four of whom had been drugged with MDMA, or ecstasy – were placed inside a water chamber from which they could access two adjacent chambers: one containing a plastic action figure in a cage and the other an unfamiliar octopus in a cage.

The octopuses who had been exposed to MDMA spent more time in the chamber with the unfamiliar octopus than those who hadn't been drugged did, and the experimenters suggest that this indicates an evolutionary link between octopuses' social behaviour and that of humans.

This speculation is completely absurd – octopuses are whole individuals, not under-evolved humans.

They are so far removed along the evolutionary line from humans that it's inaccurate and ridiculous to make sweeping statements about the development of medical treatments for human-based disorders based on results of tests on octopuses.

Experimenters need to stop thinking up new ways to torment animals in order to obtain funding and instead dedicate themselves to innovative, animal-free science that actually helps humans. Please help by calling on the European Commission and the European Parliament to observe a moratorium on all animal experiments. Take Action Now.

Tattooed in black ink across her chest, the numbers 1005158 only became more visible as her hair fell out in patches, likely as a result of the stress that she endured at Primate Products, Inc. (PPI), a notorious facility that imports and warehouses primates before selling them to laboratories. A PETA eyewitness gave Loretta a name, likely the first act of compassion she'd ever been shown.

A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors confirmed PETA's findings, citing PPI for at least 25 violations of nine animal-welfare regulations and opening an investigation of the facility. Three years later, that investigation is still ongoing.

So where is Loretta today? It's time that PPI released information about her whereabouts. Please join our efforts to find her.
Dogs shouldn't be bred to face misery and pain and besides, what kind of school would hurt a puppy?

For years, experimenters at Texas A&M University (TAMU) have intentionally bred golden retrievers and other dogs to develop canine muscular dystrophy—a painful and debilitating disease.

These gentle, intelligent dogs are housed in barren metal cells and suffer from muscle wasting so severe that they can barely walk. With swollen tongues and weakened jaws, they struggle to swallow even the thinnest gruel. And their everyday misery is compounded when experimenters routinely use them in crude, excruciating experiments—including stretching their muscles with motorized levers to see how much they've deteriorated.

Torture like this should have gone out with the Dark Ages, and it has no place in higher education—or anywhere else. 

TAMU isn't the only university using animals in cruel, painful experiments:
  • At the University of Pittsburgh, hundreds of monkeys remain trapped in cages. Many rock and pace as they slowly go insane or become violent from the overwhelming stress of their confinement.
  • Experimenters at the University of Utah have repeatedly violated federal animal-welfare laws and guidelines. During one incident, a 2-month-old lamb was injected with drugs that almost immediately led to cardiac arrest and then death. Experimenters also killed two rabbits with urethane, a carcinogenic agent that is expressly labeled "unacceptable" to use because it causes a prolonged and painful death.
  • University of Delaware experimenter Tania Roth has electrically shocked infant rats, stuffed pregnant rats into tiny tubes, and put rats in beakers of water to see how long they would struggle to swim before giving up.
These and dozens of other colleges and universities are subjecting animals to horrific abuse and neglect—and many are even receiving federal funding for their callous experiments!

No animal should be treated like disposable laboratory equipment.

PETA's high-profile campaigns have led the U.S. National Institutes of Health to end funding for hamster "fight club" experiments at Northeastern University and for University of Pittsburgh experimenter Rajesh Aneja's cruel and useless sepsis experiments on mice. We stopped twisted starvation experiments at St. Mary's University in San Antonio—sparing hundreds of animals' lives. With help from our supporters, we shut down the University of Wisconsin–Madison's cruel cat laboratory. These are just a few of dozens of recent victories for animals in laboratories. And our campaign to stop the misery of dogs at TAMU is growing louder every day.

With your support, we'll be able to do even more to dry up experimenters' funding, end animal tests at TAMU and other schools, and create a kinder future.

In Defense of Animals
Stop Ridglan Farms from Breeding Puppies for Barbaric Experiments. Ridglan Farms has been in the puppy breeding business since the 1960's, with almost 4,000 dogs imprisoned at its facility in 2017. This is no small operation. Ridglan is one of the United States' three largest breeders of dogs for experimentation, supplying Big Pharma with innocent pups to poison with toxic chemicals or infect with parasites and viruses. TAKE ACTION
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University Falsely Claims to Retire Monkeys Used in Drug-Addiction Experiments to Sanctuary. Virginia Commonwealth University experimenters are addicting monkeys to cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, and fentanyl. The school claimed that it would send them to a sanctuary, but that was a lie. Click to read more!

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California Becomes First State to Ban the Sale of Animal-Tested Cosmetics! PETA supporters took action by e-mailing and calling state legislators, and Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, making California the first state in the nation to ban the sales of cosmetics tested on animals. See when the ban will go into effect, how to search for cruelty-free cosmetics, and how you can keep taking action for animals.

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Rabbits Suffer and Die in Labs. Gentle, defenseless rabbits are still being caged, tormented, and killed in cruel tests in some countries—all for the sake of cosmetics sales. Read More.

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Baby Pigs Cut From the Womb, Rabbits Gassed, and Birds Drowned. This is where the animals used for dissection really come from.

Double Your Impact to Stop Cruel Experiments on Animals

Right now, out of the public eye in laboratories, animals are being cut open, burned, poisoned, and killed in cruel and archaic experiments. But today, you can do twice as much to help spare dogs, cats, monkeys, horses, rabbits, mice, and other animals this horrific suffering. Take Action.