Campaign Updates
PETA is taking action in the campaign to end cruel animal experiments in the name of women’s health. Take a look at some campaign updates.
Gloria Steinem to NIH: Stop ‘Triple Injustice’ of ‘Cruelty, Fraud, and Waste’!
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has charged the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with putting women's health at risk and wasting tax dollars by funding cruel and pointless animal experiments. Read more.
Victory: Wyeth Closes Premarin Plant
In October 2005, drug maker Wyeth announced that it will be closing its Rouses Point, New York, Premarin production plant, citing declining sales of the drug. Read more.
PETA Demands That Katherine O’Hagan Stop Her Cruel Rabbit Experiments
PETA has launched a campaign against Katherine O’Hagan and her cruel exercise experiments on pregnant rabbits. In a letter to Dr. O’Hagan, PETA explains why rabbits are poor models for human pregnancy and why pregnancy research is best left to clinical studies and epidemiology.
PETA Asks the National Institutes of Health to Cancel Its Funding of O’Hagan’s Rabbit Treadmill Experiments
The National Heart Lung & Blood Institute has given Dr. O’Hagan more than $400,000 of taxpayer money to experiment on pregnant rabbits. In a letter to the NHLBI, PETA demands that the institute cut the funding to Dr. O’Hagan’s current $200,000 grant and not fund her animal research in the future.
PETA Blasts David Earnest’s Ghastly Alcohol Studies on Pregnant Rats
PETA is furious over David Earnest’s experiment in which he feeds alcohol to pregnant rats in order to study how fetal alcohol exposure affects the circadian rhythms of their babies. This research is as pointless as it is cruel. Read PETA’s heated letter to Dr. Earnest.
PETA Condemns Eliot Spindel’s Nicotine Studies on Primates
Eliot Spindel has made a career out of drugging primates, but this time his research is also threatening human lives. Spindel is claiming his primate studies show that pregnant women can curb some of the harmful effects of fetal nicotine exposure by taking vitamin C. Read PETA’s letter to Dr. Spindel, explaining how his cruel research will only serve to keep pregnant women smoking.
PETA Criticizes the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for Funding Cruel and Pointless Animal Experiments
The Komen Foundation is the largest charitable sponsor of breast cancer research in the world. However, the foundation is misguidedly wasting funds on grants for cruel animal experiments. After learning of a particularly outrageous study on breast cancer and obesity in rats, PETA fired off a letter to Komen CEO Susan Braun, asking her to revoke the quarter-million-dollar grant and to stop funding animal research in the future.