Animal Testing

Rumours suggest that the 2013 EU sales ban on animal-tested cosmetics could be weakened or delayed.

The UK military participated in invasive and deadly animal-based trauma training exercises in Denmark.

More than one in three people now identify themselves as “objectors” to the use of animals in medical research.

More than three-quarters of NATO allies use simulators or other non-animal models because they recognise that animal training bears no resemblance to real battlefield conditions.

The government sent PETA its proposed new law on animal experiments – the one resulting from the long, long process of translating the 2010 EU directive passed into UK law.

Following vigorous campaigning by PETA and its affiliates, Air China has confirmed that it’s joining nearly every other airline worldwide by refusing to transport primates to laboratories.

Hundreds of compassionate members of the public marched through central London to urge the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to replace The Queen’s Guards’ bearskin caps with cruelty-free faux fur.

Massive leap in the number of experiments on cats (26 per cent) is a sign that public opinion counts for nothing in regulating experiments.

The Real Hustle’s Jessica-Jane Clement, who was named one of FHM’s Sexiest Women, is determined to help stop cosmetics tests on animals.

PETA aims to get as many people as possible to march through the streets of London for PETA’s “Spare the Bears” event.