Animal Testing

PETA Science Policy Adviser Dr Julia Baines describes the horrors faced by animals in laboratories and explains why cutting-edge technology is essential for a future without animal testing.

This list outlines some truly disturbing experiments recently conducted on animals.

How can we accelerate the transition to animal-free testing techniques? By getting young scientists on board!

The European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing 2018 congress highlighted alternatives to toxicity testing using fish.

No tests on animals for Dove, and parent Unilever bans all tests not specifically required by law across all other brands.

For decades, toxicity testing has been carried out using animals. But technology has moved on, and so should we.

Four California two-spot octopuses were administered ecstasy in an experiment at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

Scientists from PETA and PETA US are helping researchers conduct pioneering animal-free inhalation testing using the latest methods.

The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and biotech company Epithelix have joined forces to promote the use of human cell–based testing methods that replace the use of animals.

Viagra has consistently passed safety tests on animals, yet when it was used in a clinical trial for pregnant women whose placentas were underperforming, 11 babies died.