Dissection & Vivisection

Harvard University’s announcement on Tuesday, April 23, that it will close its primate research center by 2015 was the result of an ongoing controversy about how it treats its research subjects, and a federal investigation, according to a national research watchdog… Read More

Here’s a fresh hell for animals: a company keeps 10,000 goats and 5,000 rabbits in terrible conditions to harvest their blood and sell the antibodies in it. The animals develop the desired antibodies after the facility exposes them to various diseases. Santa Cruz Biotechnology (SC Biotech) makes its profits by bleeding these animals all but dry and selling the antibodies to… Read More

Today, March 11, marks the culmination of 23 years of campaigning to end the suffering for animals who were used in tests for cosmetics sold in the European Union because people who cared refused to give up. Starting today, anyone selling cosmetic products in the EU will not be allowed to test finished products or their ingredients on animals anywhere in the world, whether or not an alternativ… Read More

Cape Town — The EU has officially banned the testing of cosmetic ingredients on animals, including the sale of any cosmetic ingredient or product subject to any new animal testing. In South Africa however, the testing of cosmetic ingredients on animals is still legal, and… Read More

The European Union (EU) has banned new cosmetic products that use animal-tested ingredients. The European Commission stated that this supports the belief of Europeans that cosmetics development does not need any animal testing. The ban is also seen by animal rights activists as a victory in their fight against… Read More

Japan’s largest cosmetic company, Shiseido, which is also one of the oldest companies in the world providing women’s beauty products, announced on Friday that it will no longer be selling cosmetics tested on… Read More

There is a cruel irony in the fact that Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. develops antibodies and animal healthcare products, but has also repeatedly violated the federal Animal Welfare Act by allowing many of the goats that they use for producing those antibodies to suffer horribly and, in some cases,… Read More

Celebrities are teaming up with animal rights activists in an attempt to end cosmetic testing on animals in the U.S., a move at least one industry trade group says should be delayed until better alternative testing is… Read More