Animal Testing

We’re delighted by the fantastic news that a ban on the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in the EU will come into effect in March of this year.

We are appalled by photos of a visibly terrified monkey crudely strapped into a restraint device in which he was allegedly launched into space by the Iranian Space Agency.

In 2011, we learned that animals may have been poisoned and killed in toxicity tests that should never have taken place, as part of the EU’s chemical testing programme.

Appearing naked, with bleeding eyes, musician Dave Navarro’s new PETA ad is pretty dark, even for someone known for his edgy sense of style.

PETA and our affiliates are working to end the testing of cosmetics and household products on animals in countries around the world.

Support for animal testing in the UK is declining. The government still needs to more to help the millions of animals who are suffering in labs across the country.

Oliver Stone is disgusted by the UK military’s use of live pigs as targets in training drills – and he’s not afraid to speak his mind.

Beagles in laboratories spend their lonely lives in cages and are often poisoned with drugs, burned with chemicals or cut open in experimental surgical procedures.

Testing cosmetics on animals is already outlawed in the EU, but starting at March, companies that test elsewhere won’t be able to sell their products here either.

Gideon Raff, creator and executive producer of Channel 4 series Homeland, knows torturing animals is not needed to produce one of the most capable fighting forces in the world.