Dear Friend,

Your generous support powers the PETA scientists, researchers, and campaigners who are working tirelessly to end all experiments on animals. Thanks to your help, PETA is doing more to expose hidden abuse, get animals out of laboratory cages, and stop deadly experiments than any other organization in the world.

Our undercover investigations into two massive federally funded laboratories, the Cleveland Clinic and the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, are inspiring tens of thousands to join us in opposing the abuse, neglect, and psychological torment that animal experimenters try desperately to conceal. We've taken universities to court and won, defending our supporters' First Amendment rights in a landmark free speech lawsuit against Texas A&M University and prevailing in an open-records lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University that resulted in the school being forced to turn over 74 videos from "junk food" experiments on infant monkeys. PETA even helped Bolivian engineers develop a new ventilator for COVID-19 patients without any animal testing. And this is just scratching the surface!

Pharma Giants Ban Near-Drowning Tests

Pharmaceutical companies are notoriously difficult to shame or shift, but we're making that happen, too. In less than a year, PETA pressure has persuaded Sage Therapeutics (which specializes in antidepressants), Pfizer, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Australia's University of Adelaide, and other companies and higher-learning institutions to announce that they're banning the cruel and discredited near-drowning test—in which small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and left to swim for their lives, all supposedly to identify a substance's antidepressant potential for humans.

Food and Beverage Companies Ditch Deadly Experiments

Even in 2020, some companies still fund experiments in which mice, rats, and other animals are electroshocked, force-fed, mutilated, injected with chemicals, intentionally afflicted with diseases, or otherwise tormented and killed to make dubious product-marketing claims. But PETA's campaigns have long been giving indigestion to experimenters and pushing corporations to swear off deadly tests. The latest additions to that list include Japan's largest flavor company, a Coca-Cola corn syrup supplier, hummus brand Sabra's parent company, and Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut. PETA has now persuaded a whopping 129 global food and beverage companies to end their cruel animal-testing programs or confirm that they have no intention of starting one, and we're working hard for a world where no food and beverage companies subject animals to these cruel experiments. After a PETA push, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration also took steps to end animal-testing requirements for "anti-fatigue" health claims—shutting down experiments in which animals were drowned, forced to run on treadmills while being electroshocked, or otherwise tormented.

Pushing Charities and Corporations to Help All Animals

When we alerted the Dole Food Company to the hideous animal experiments being conducted by its nutrition chair at the Mayo Clinic, the global fruit and vegetable leader agreed to divert its funding exclusively toward superior animal-free and human-relevant nutrition research. In another huge sign of progress, the enormous Ball Corporation (known for producing the original Ball glass jars) is no longer a platinum partner of Wings for Life, a Red Bull–backed charity that supports horrific and scientifically bogus spinal cord injury experiments on animals. Ball's decision to terminate its association with the charity comes after discussions with PETA, which led the company to adopt a public policy that bans funding experiments on animals.

Moving Toward a Cruelty-Free Future

Our Global Beauty Without Bunnies database is the leading resource helping consumers around the world ensure that their personal-care products are never tested on animals—and this year, we worked with household names like Aussie Hair Care, Avon Products, Suave, and deodorant brand Secret to get them to ban all animal testing. Our list of companies that don't test on animals now includes more than 4,700 cruelty-free beauty, personal-care, and household product brands and companies, with more to come!

Mapping Out a Strategy to End Animal Experiments

Across PETA and our affiliates, we have 30 scientists working to end all categories of experiments on animals: from universities' vile curiosity-driven tests to corporations' useless experiments for marketing purposes to archaic regulatory tests on animals long backed by government agencies around the world. Now, we've introduced the world's first comprehensive plan, the Research Modernization Deal, to provide a roadmap toward replacing all animal use and shifting to a testing paradigm that can save the lives of all species.

Next Steps

Help from committed supporters like you drives all that we do to stop animal tests.

Whether it's conducting groundbreaking investigations or leading multifaceted campaigns that are persuading corporate giants and universities to change their ways, the compassion and determination of PETA supporters like you is vital to all that we're achieving together for animals.

Thank you for being right there alongside us.

Kind regards,

Kathy Guillermo
Senior Vice President

P.S. You can help lay the groundwork for PETA's next big victory by giving to our "Stop Animal Testing" Matching-Gift Challenge right now. All gifts up to the $500,000 goal will be matched dollar for dollar through our October 31 deadline.