PETA Global Issue 3

ISSUE 3 | AUTUMN 2017

FIGHTING FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS WORLDWIDE 13 Season’s Eatings PAGE 3 PAGE Joanna Krupa ‘Real Housewife’ shows her true stripes Deck your table with delicious vegan fare

20 PAGE Rock Stars for Animals Iggy Pop and Nick Cave fulfill a dog's dreams

PETA Closing Cruel Labs Since 1980

W ith your help, it’s happening. It all started with Billy. When PETA discovered him, the gentle little monkey was trying desperately to eat food pellets thrown into his filthy cage before they fell through the wire flooring. This was a matter of survival, because nerves in his spine had been cut, paralyzing his arms. He had to push himself on his elbows and try to grab the pellets with his teeth before they were lost forever. Billy was just one of 17 monkeys abused in crude experiments and kept in the nightmarish Institute for Behavioral Research, a federally funded laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland. This was PETA’s first eyewitness investigation, and it led to many other firsts – the first search-and-seizure warrant served on a US laboratory, the first confiscation of animals from a laboratory, the first cruelty conviction of an experimenter, and the first case involving animals in laboratories to be considered by the US Supreme

global industry of non-animal research methods, persuaded governments and corporations around the world to end various animal-test requirements, closed laboratories, and held experimenters accountable. This has spared tens of millions of animals from horrific suffering. Experiments on animals are cruel and misleading, and they must end. Mice, rabbits, monkeys, pigs, horses, and other animals

no control over any aspect of their lives – they live in fear and are denied everything that could bring them joy or comfort. Studies show that even hearing the doorknob on the laboratory door turn makes their hearts race and their blood pressure rise. Animals are individuals. They have the right to live their own lives. Read on to learn more about PETA’s compelling work to end vivisection and how you can play a vital role.

aren’t “tools” to be caged, burned, poisoned, starved, and mutilated. In laboratories, they have

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Court. It shocked people around the world. As PETA’s iconic poster of a screaming, terrified monkey strapped into a crude restraint chair from that very lab proclaimed, “THIS IS VIVISECTION. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU DIFFERENT.” It ignited a movement.

P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E Sniff out the truth on page 6 J

PETA shut that laboratory down and, since then, has exposed cruelty in many laboratories, sparked the development of the now-thriving

INDIA

Saved! Animals Pulled out of Deathtraps

A MESSAGE FROM Ingrid Newkirk PETA’s President

Trapped and frantic, a spectacled cobra swam in circles at the bottom of a 50-foot well. Death was certain – until a crew arrived from Animal Rahat, a PETA supported veterinary and emergency animal-care program in Maharashtra, India. The group’s emergency responders regularly risk life and limb to rescue animals who’ve tumbled into crumbling open-pit wells – from dogs and cats to pigs and wildlife. It took three hours, but the team finally hoisted the 4-foot-long snake to safety and released her into a forest.

On a hot summer day in July 1985, 101 nervous PETA members – pretending to be part of a tour group – filed into the elevators at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) headquarters and headed to the eighth floor. Catching the staff by surprise, they raced into the offices and sat down, refusing to budge until the agency had agreed to cut off funding to the notorious head-injury laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Experimenter Thomas Gennarelli was receiving nearly $1 million a year fromNIH to cement baboons’ heads into helmets, connect them to a hydraulic device, and thrust them sharply forward with an acceleration of up to 1,000 units of g-force (15 can kill a human being). The baboons were supposed to be anesthetized for the “bang,” as experimenters called it, but more than 60 hours’ worth of video footage taken from the facility by the Animal Liberation Front showed that animals were struggling and trying to lift their heads when they should have been unconscious. Experimenters were also shown making fun of baboons who were so brain-damaged that they could only drool and stare vacantly. One grinning worker mocked an injured baboon, saying, “You’re gonna rescue me from this, aren’t you? Aren’t you?” Laughing staffers posed with injured animals, describing one primate with an incision down the middle of his skull as having “the punk look.” And another said, “You’d better hope the anti-vivisection people don’t get ahold of this film.” But PETA did. PETA submitted copies of the footage to the US Department of Agriculture, which recommended that all the animals be removed immediately. But “investigations” by NIH and university officials (some of whom had worked in the lab) were a farce. That is how I found myself sitting on the floor inside NIH’s headquarters that summer. That sit-in captured media interest worldwide. Seventy-seven hours after PETA’s protest began, the government announced that it would end all funding to the cruel head-injury clinic. We’ve come a long way since then: High-tech simulators for studying crash injuries are now the gold standard. But other painful, pointless experiments on animals continue, and PETA will keep fighting them until every laboratory cage is empty.

Using ropes, ladders, nets, tranquilizers, and ingenuity, an Animal Rahat staffer recently saved two dogs who were stuck on a narrow ledge in another well.

When a call came in about a cowwho’d been treading water for nearly two hours after falling 70 feet down a well, Animal Rahat was on the scene in minutes with a hydraulic crane and industrial lifting belt. Two staffers were lowered down in climbing harnesses, strapped the belt around the exhausted cow, then signaled for the crane to lift her to safety. She emerged without a scratch. Every rescued animal is given a thorough examination and veterinary care if needed, and dogs are sterilized and dewormed. There are hundreds of abandoned wells in this area, so Animal Rahat’s rescue services are invaluable.

UK & USA

PETA p aced this billboard on a busy road between a massive chicken hatchery and a s aughterhouse in Ohio – both notorious for their rotten smell – and also offered to pay to p ace it on public toilets in Eng and and Wales that were in danger of being shut down for ack of funds. In addition to the foul odor, waste from farmed animals contributes to air pollution. The methane gas that the animals emit is the single argest source of global methane emissions – and 25 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide is. Their waste also releases ammonia that, when combined with car exhaust and smoke from coal-fired power p ants, creates smog. People who live near pig farms frequently suffer from asthma and other respiratory problems caused by liquid manure sprayed on surrounding fields.

Read riveting accounts of daring animal rescues from aboratories in Free the Animals by Ingrid Newkirk. Order at PETACatalog.com . I

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TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

UK

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TraumaMan – and PETA! – to the Rescue They breathe, they bleed, they die … and then they come back to life. What are they? Amazing human simu ators! PETA has donated more than 100 of these high-tech TraumaMan devices to physician-training programs. The realistic models come complete with lifelike ayers of skin and tissue, ribs, and internal organs. Emergency room doctors can practice advanced lifesaving surgical procedures, repeatedly cutting into a simu ator’s chest, throat, and abdomen – and preventing thousands of live dogs, goats, pigs, and sheep from being muti ated each year. The program has benefited doctors – and animals – from Bang adesh and Bolivia to Iran and Indonesia.

Londoners got food for thought when giant “farm animals” rode the trains to tell people that going vegan is the ticket to compassion. Their Tube ride aunched the roll-out of PETA UK’s pro-vegan ad series in 25 different stations across the London Underground network. Get on board by ordering your free vegan starter kit at PETA.org/VSK . Why Did the Chicken Ride the Tube?

GLOBAL

USA

PETA Pulls Hurricane Victims From Floodwaters After Hurricane Harvey hit, a PETA rescue team rushed to the devastated

Animal Circuses Are Falling Like Dominos The world’s largest animal circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, went out of business this year. Cole Bros. also went dark. Carson & Barnes suspended its summer tour. Circus Vargas hasn't used animals for years, and Ramos Bros. Circus recently ended wild-animal acts. Places all over the US have refused to allow Garden Bros. circus to performwith wild animals after hearing from PETA. PETA Germany’s campaign against wild-animal circuses resulted in a ban in 80 cities, and Circus Roncalli, one of Germany’s biggest, is going animal-free. Pamela Anderson is lending high-profile support to the campaign against animal circuses in France and the UK. Thanks to PETA India and other groups that have exposed cruelty, several Indian circuses – including Moonlight, New SAM, Gemini, Jamuna, and Rajkamal – have had their permits revoked or been forced to relinquish their animals to sanctuaries.

Gulf Coast. Wading through floodwaters, they pulled cats, dogs, and even a stranded armadillo from homes, porches, yards, and car tops. They found a kitten clinging to a patio umbrel a, a dog floating on a mattress, and chickens trapped in a flooded coop. When the team returned to PETA’s headquarters in Virginia, 67 homeless dogs and cats came back with them – all from shelters trying to make room for incoming victims. The team members barely had a chance to catch their breath before heading to Puerto Rico to help animals affected by Hurricane Maria.

Take Action Now More than a dozen countries – including Bolivia, Greece, Mexico, and Slovenia – have banned wild-animal circuses, and earlier this year,

Scotland introduced legislation outlawing them. UK Prime Minister Theresa May, on the other hand, has ignored appeals from The Real Housewives of Miami star Joanna Krupa and others on PETA UK's behalf to ban animal circuses – although 94% of Britons want such a law. Please e-mail her at mayt@parliament.uk and ask that she take action to protect animals from being exploited for entertainment.

Take Action Now Support PETA’s disaster relief efforts by visiting PETA.org/Donate .

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USA

Police officers in Texas teamed up with PETA to distribute dozens of Tofurkys, and enthusiastic holiday shoppers snapped them up within minutes. And the rapper Grey’s Everybody Loves Tofurky

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“Vegan Thanksgiving” – in which he sings the praises of tofu turkey and a list of other mouthwatering dishes – is a viral sensation. “You can fill your p ate up without all the guilt and whip pies up … out of almond milk,” he raps. He

went vegan two years ago at his girlfriend’s urging. “Once I started to understand what’s in the food that we eat and the effects it can have on the body, in addition to the obvious animal cruelty behind it – it was enough for me to start a new lifestyle,” he says. Download “Vegan Thanksgiving” at soundcloud.com/officialgreymusic .

CHINA

USA

Cheng Yi Has Noble Aspirations for Animals

Cheng Yi, hunky star of the award-winning Chinese fantasy show Noble Aspirations, has almost as many fans as there are homeless pups in China. “People say a man can’t love the world if he doesn’t love animals,” he said while shooting his ad for PETA Asia. “Your love to animals is love to the world – and ‘adopt, don’t buy’ is showing love to the world.” Show animals some love: Always adopt and have them spayed or neutered.

USA

We Interrupt This Commute to Bring You an Im potent Message What’s worse than a breakdown on the roadway? A breakdown in the bedroom! That’s the message behind PETA’s new billboards, which inform drivers that the saturated fat in meat clogs arteries and blocks blood flow to all their vital organs. Media outlets found the ads irresistible, and reporters interviewed doctors who agreed that consuming meat and dairy “products” can lead to erectile dysfunction. Do your sweetheart – and yourself – a favor and take the fastest route to the fruit and vegetable aisles.

PETA supporters headed to the assembly of US military medical personnel at the PETA’s Special Request for Special Ops

Special Operations Medical Association in North Carolina in order to ask that all branches of the military cease maiming and killing animals in training drills, a practice that the US Defense Health Agency has rightly called “outdated and cost-prohibitive.” Many military bases prepare personnel to treat traumatic injuries by using cutting-edge, human-patient simulation technology instead of harming animals, as do most of the US’ NATO allies. Following pressure from PETA and Congress, the US Coast Guard announced earlier this year that it will end its use of animals in deadly trauma training drills. Visit PETA.org/Trauma to take action.

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CANADA

USA

Does This Calf Look Sad to You?

The New York City Transit Authority found this ad showing a frightened calf on a dairy farm so upsetting (i.e., effective) that it insisted on a “happier” version before it would run the ad in bus shelters and train stations. And while fast-food restaurants run “eat more meat” ads, PETA was denied the chance to run “eat no meat” ads on the Washington, D.C., Metro – so it joined the American Civil Liberties Union in suing the WashingtonMetropolitan Area Transit Authority for the right to run pro-vegan ads. Meanwhile, PETA is running them everywhere else!

Mouse: © Kendall Bryant | Cow: © Toronto Cow Save/Louise Jorgensen

Wolves ofWall StreetMeet ‘Coyotes’ of PETA

At Canada Goose’s initial public offering (IPO) at the New York and Toronto stock exchanges, PETA showed that when brands torture animals, IPO means “inviting public outrage.” Protesters in New York warned of the cruelty in every goose down–filled and coyote fur–trimmed Canada Goose jacket, and in Toronto, they waved graphic signs as TV cameras rolled. PETA members also purchased stock in the company in order to enable PETA to present shareholder resolutions. Trapped coyotes, particularlymothers desperate to reach their young, sometimes chew off their own limbs in an attempt to escape – only to die later of blood loss or infection. Trappers kill the rest by stomping on their chests or by shooting or bludgeoning them to death. Take Action Now Tell everyone you know: Don’t buy Canada Goose products! If you have a jacket from the company, send it back for a refund. Encourage your friends and family to contact Canada Goose CEO Dani Reiss at dreiss@canada-goose.com and tell him to stop selling real fur and down. GLOBAL

USA

PETA VICTORY! The Home Depot Stops Using Cruel Glue Traps During discussions between PETA and The Home

Depot regarding the company’s sale of glue traps, a Home Depot employee found a mouse in a glue trap inside one of its stores. After seeing how animals suffer, The Home Depot prohibited the use of glue traps in its more than 2,200 stores. More than 215 companies and institutions have banned the use or sale of glue traps, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs, U-Haul, the New York City Police Department, CVS, Dol ar Tree, Rite Aid, Walgreens, and nearly 80 airports. Instead of glue traps, use humane mousetraps, avai able at PETACatalog.com .

Babe Star Arrested After Interrupting SeaWorld Show

Yes, that was revered actor James Cromwell speaking through a megaphone at a SeaWorld San Diego orca show to warn the audience: “Forty orcas have died in captivity here! Nothing that you see of orcas’ life here is natural!” PETA protesters were dragged away, but the showdown at the orca corral grabbed headlines around the world. Adding to SeaWorld’s woes, PETA Germany is warning travelers away from marine parks, using ads in in-flight magazines and at the Frankfurt Airport near the gates of flights departing to Or ando, and PETA UK protesters are urging the Thomas Cook travel agency to stop booking trips to SeaWorld. Order James Cromwell’s “SeaWorld Sucks“ and Kathy Najimy’s “Run Screaming From SeaWorld“ T-shirts at PETACatalog.com .

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P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E

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I nside laboratories at the University of in place, and left them that way for more than eight weeks. Both rabbits lost significant weight – a sign of severe pain and distress. A PETA investigation revealed that other animals at Pitt were denied adequate pain relief for severe wounds, drowned when cages flooded, and died of thirst when their water supplies were cut off. A staffer tore off a Pittsburgh (Pitt), an experimenter severed the knee ligaments of two young rabbits named Jack and Daniels. He contorted their legs into an excruciatingly painful position, wired them Animal Experiments Hurt Everyone Mad, Bad Science

... and a Sex Scandal!

mouse’s toes while prying the animal from a cage lid. Another worker slowly suffocated mice in a plastic bag, and when questioned about it, he laughed. PETA has conducted investigations into dozens of laboratories and exposed atrocities like this in universities, hospitals, product testing laboratories, and breeding facilities. The few laws on the books offer little protection, and virtually nothing – from burning a pig with a red-hot metal bar to starving monkeys – is illegal. Millions of animals are killed, and vast sums of money are wasted – even though we know that more than 90% of studies on animals fail to lead to therapies that help humans.

6 COVER STORY

“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

Are You as Ethical as a Rat or a Monkey?

– Jeremy Bentham

PETA Out to Stop Unimaginable Suffering Case in point: Video footage shot inside Texas A&M University and obtained by PETA shows golden retrievers and other dogs – deliberately bred to develop canine muscular dystrophy – cowering on hard, slatted floors. Their leg muscles have wasted away so that they can barely walk, as have their jaw and throat muscles, making it almost impossible for them to chew or swallow. After 35 years of these cruel experiments, there is, perhaps not surprisingly, still no treatment for muscular dystrophy in humans, let alone a cure. Then There Was the Sexual Abuse It shouldn’t come as any surprise that people involved in abusing animals for a living don’t always stop there. John Hagmann, president of Deployment Medicine International (DMI), the US military’s leading contractor for archaic trauma training – in which live pigs and goats were shot, stabbed, and killed – sexually abused young soldiers for years. He gave drugs and alcohol to trainees, performed a rectal exam on a student, instructed another student to perform a penis and rectal exam on him (which he videotaped), and manipulated and photographed a drunk student’s penis among

other instances of abuse – all apparently for his own sexual gratification.

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When given the choice between a choco ate treat and freeing a trapped fellow rat, most rats choose to free the other rat. Monkeys went without food for up to 12 days when they realized that pulling a lever to get food would also deliver a painful shock to another monkey. By contrast, studies on humans showed that many would give other people what they believed to be severe shocks if simply told to do so by a person in authority. It appears that rats and monkeys could teach humans a thing or two about behaving decently.

After PETA uncovered documentation of the misconduct and filed complaints, the military investigated, DMI was barred from receiving any federal contracts, and the Virginia Board of Medicine revoked Hagmann’s medical license. Let the Dogs Out! Actually, Let All the Animals Out … PETA has exposed laboratory workers who screamed and cursed at cowering dogs and cats, blasted them with pressure washers and bleach, and slammed a cat into a fence, among other examples of abuse. That’s why PETA is hard at work – in the halls of Congress and government agencies; in laboratories, classrooms, and scientific conferences; in corporate boardrooms; and on the streets – fighting to end all experiments on animals.

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DEDICATED!

Even the threat of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey didn™t halt PETA demonstrators™ efforts to shut down Texas A&M University™s cruel muscu ar dystrophy dog aboratory.

Take Action Now Please contact your government representatives (US readers, visit PETA.org/

Congress to send an e-mail to your congressional representatives) and demand that they cut all funding for experiments on animals and redirect the money toward superior non-animal methods.

ST O PPED!

A SNAPSHOT OF TOP HISTORIC PETA VICTORIES 1980-2017

Silver Spring Monkeys seized and laboratory closed (both firsts in US history!)

The White House and the EPA spare 800,000 animals the ordeal of chemical toxicity testing

Year-long pesticide poisoning tests on dogs ended in the US; EU and Canada follow suit

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons stops killing animals for surgical training

US Army ends chemical-attack training on monkeys

Car-crash tests on animals ended worldwide

POM Wonderful, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Lipton, Barilla, and House Foods end all tests on animals

European Chemicals Agency saves up to 4.5 million animals from toxicity testing

National Institutes of Health ends infant-monkey maternal-separation experiments

US military bans shooting dogs and cats in wound laboratories

NASA drops plans to irradiate squirrel monkeys

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Global 7

P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E

The Heartbreak of Alzheimer’s Disease – and Hope in a Dish

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A s an internist at a bustling medical center, I know how devastating a dementia diagnosis can be, but I was reminded again when my colleague tearfully told me her story. Her mother no longer recognized her. In fact, her mother no longer even knew where she was: She’d pick up her purse, beg to go home, and then panic when she was told that she already was home. Every night, she pleaded to see her parents, who were both dead, and she struggled with the simplest of tasks. Now, she’d become bed-ridden and could no longer speak. And there was something else: My colleague had requested medication to help alleviate her mother’s constant panic, but the neurologist accused her of wanting to drug her mother and made her feel ashamed for even asking. Scenes like this play out all around the globe, because the medical community has little hope or relief to offer victims of Alzheimer’s disease and their heartbroken families. experiments on animals? I think so. Animals don’t actually get Alzheimer’s disease, but for decades, experimenters have been developing “animal models” of the condition in mice, monkeys, rabbits, dogs, and other nonhuman animals – meaning that studies focus on the wrong disease in the wrong species. Mice are not simply tiny, furry humans. This is why there have been no new therapies for Alzheimer’s in 10 years – and 99.6% of drugs that seemed to be successful in experiments on animals have failed in humans, leading Inside Science to call Alzheimer’s research “a graveyard for expensive drug tests.” A Doctor’s Perspective Would we be closer to a treatment or a cure today if we hadn’t squandered our time and resources conducting

Animal Experiments Don’t Work The US government acknowledges that animals are not good experimental models for humans, yet it spends $12 billion per year on new animal experiments.

Up to 89% of the results from all animal experiments can’t be reproduced, wasting $28billion per year.

Drugs that appear safe in animal trials cause the deaths of 197,000 humans annually in the EU and more than 120,000 in the US.

95% of new pharmaceutical drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human trials.

90% of animal studies fail to lead to treatments for humans.

But there is a way forward: As animal studies fail, forward-thinking scientists and policymakers are looking for new solutions. One of these is “Alzheimer’s in-a-dish,” developed by Harvard Medical School researchers who grew human neurons in a three dimensional culture and then introduced genetic traits associated with the disease. Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, who helped develop the technology, predicts that it will “revolutionize drug discovery,” allowing scientists to “screen hundreds of thousands of drugs in a matter of months without using animals.” By contrast, testing a drug in mice takes more than a year.

a laboratory – we must embrace innovative, human relevant technology. Before you donate to a health charity, ask if it funds or conducts experiments on animals. If the answer is yes, don’t write that check.

Dr. Patrice Green is an internist who has practiced all over the US. She has taught and mentored students and residents, emphasizing ethics in

medicine. Currently, she works as a hospitalist on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

If we are to spare humans the heartbreak of Alzheimer’s disease – and animals the misery of life and death in

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HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

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O scar-nominated actor James Cromwell is well known for his roles in Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, and The Green Mile, among many other films – but “PETA” to the core, he’s a real activist, too. We talked to him about being dragged away in handcuffs after interrupting a meeting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to protest the school’s brain experiments on cats (which were shut down shortly afterward) and going suit-and-tie to Capitol Hill. He explained why he’ll give up his own freedom if necessary to defend animals – and how everyone can make a difference. PETA: Do you have any regrets about your time in jail? James Cromwell: None. Going to jail is a statement. If petitions and protests aren’t getting results, we have to up our game. My inconvenience and discomfort are temporary. For animals in laboratories, the torture only ends when they die. PETA: Why did you crash the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting? JC: The experiments conducted at the Madison campus were egregiously cruel. Cats suffered from chronic infections after holes were drilled into their skulls and metal coils implanted in their eyes. They were starved to keep them submissive and compliant. No one with a conscience should just stand by. PETA: That’s a provocative T-shirt you’re wearing. JC: It illustrates what happened to Double Trouble, one of the cats at the university. Experimenters killed her and cut off her head after she developed a severe infection. When I wear this shirt, it sparks conversations about how profoundly flawed animal experiments are and the suffering that they cause PETA: You decided to make a statement when you turned 75, didn’t you? JC: Yes, on my 75 th birthday, I went to Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress about maternal-deprivation experiments that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was conducting on baby monkeys, taking them from their mothers and scaring the daylights out of them with mechanical snakes and loud noises, until they became psychotic. PETA launched a campaign against these cruel practices and asked me to join in. NIH did end the experiments and closed the laboratory. I’m pleased to have played a part. PETA: Obviously, your fame helps bring attention to these issues. JC: Whether I’m standing outside Wendy’s with a pro-vegan poster or caging myself inside LAX to protest shipping primates to laboratories, I’m just Jamie, a citizen, trying to draw

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James Cromwell

‘No One With a Conscience Should Just Stand By’

attention to issues that shouldn’t be ignored. I believe in the ’60s saying

“Power to the people.” If we don’t fight injustice, nothing will change.

Take Action Now Get your own “It’s Not the Cat” T-shirt at PETACatalog.org and spread the word about indefensible experiments.

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ANIMALS SAVED BECAUSE OF YOU!

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You probably think of salespeople going door to door hawking magazine subscriptions – not cutting up pigs. But that’s exactly what sales reps for Johnson & Johnson were doing in training demonstrations of the company’s medical equipment. So PETA mobilized its supporters, and in less than 24 hours, the campaign had succeeded. After receiving nearly 12,000 e-mails, Johnson & Johnson told PETA that it had “discontinued live animal use in sales training across our North America region” and would end the practice worldwide within two months, which it did. PETA members helped saved the day – and the pigs – and are winning those kinds of victories every week. PETA Members Save Pigs From Deadly Sales Demos – and Much More

10 THE POWER OF THE PIXEL

Your Messages Matter

PETA and its affiliates’ action alerts have helped save animals around the world, from elephants who were chained for years in temples in India to bulls who were being killed in bullfights in the Balearic Islands. PETAmembers have helped persuade the US National Institutes of Health to retire all government-owned chimpanzees from laboratories; major fashion brands Armani, Intermix, and The Kooples to stop selling fur; Israel and Paraguay to ban “shackle and hoist” slaughter of cows for kosher beef; and the Vancouver Park Board to ban cetacean captivity, ending the Vancouver Aquarium’s imprisonment of porpoises, beluga whales, and orcas and other dolphins. Action alerts are also helping to end air shipments of primates to US laboratories: When Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) was purchased by Amazon, PETA mobilized its members, and after just five days, ATSG joined the long list of airlines that have stopped these inhumane shipments. When PETA informed supporters that students at a Texas high school were filmed “jumping rope” with the intestines of a cat they had dissected, PETA members flooded the school district’s administration with e-mails until it stopped all cat dissections. Action alert participants also ended a sickening ritual in Peru in which a dog and bull were tied together before being viciously slaughtered, got the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Georgia

to agree not to allow shark touch tanks, helped get plans to build massive chicken factory farms in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire scrapped, and helped the Czech Republic ban fur farming, sparing the lives of nearly 20,000 minks and foxes every year.

“We ask that you please tell your followers that their voice has been heard and we ask that they stop inundating our … emails.”

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– Circus sponsor targeted by PETA

PETA and its affiliates’ action alerts have helped save animals around the world. Program participants send more than 2 million e-mails to animal-abusing targets every single month. Sometimes it takes hundreds of thousands of messages to persuade an individual or company to stop, but many targets are ready to listen after hearing from just a few thousand compassionate people. If recipients change their phone numbers or shut down their e-mail accounts, PETA finds the new ones so that animal rights supporters can keep doing what we do best: winning victories around the globe.

Those are just a few of PETA’s many recent victories. When thousands of kind people call and e-mail about the abuse of living, feeling beings, companies and government agencies realize that as long as animals are suffering, they’ll never hear the end of it. Save Animals on the Go! PETA’s mobile alerts program lets you take action for animals – anywhere, anytime . If you live in the US, sign up a t PETA.org/MobileAlerts to get a short text message when animals need your help. All you have to do is text in a single letter, and PETA will send a message to an animal abuser on your behalf.

SAVED

Your e-mails helped persuade ATSG to end air shipments of primates to US laboratories. SAVED

PETA members compelled a California city to cancel plans to use snares to trap and kill coyotes. SAVED

Action alerts helped persuade Israel and Paraguay to ban cruel "shackle and hoist" kosher slaughter.

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P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E

How PETA Gave the Cosmetics Industry a

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Makeove

1989: L'Oréal Learns a Lesson the Hard Way PETA protesters gathered outside L'Oréal's headquarters with their feet cemented in boxes (so the police couldn’t whisk them away) to protest its tests on animals. Some demonstrators even wore adult “diapers” so they could stay as long as it took! The police dragged them off using chains.

W hen PETA was founded in 1980, cruelty-free cosmetics practically didn’t exist. Unless you took your own bottle to a co-op, you could buy only one shampoo in the US that wasn’t tested on animals – and it was imported, expensive, and hard to find. Now – after PETA’s nearly four decades of protests, meetings with corporate and government officials, funding of high-tech, non-animal research, and more – finding cruelty-free personal-care products is as easy as walking into anyWalgreens or Boots. More than 2,700 companies have joined PETA’s “BeautyWithout Bunnies” list in response to consumer demand for beauty products that no animal had to suffer and die for. Cosmetics tests on animals in India have gone the way of imperial rule, thanks to PETA India, and PETA was instrumental in getting these tests banned in the European Union. Now, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Turkey – as well as São Paulo, Brazil – all have bans in place on such tests, and Australia, Canada, South Korea, and the United States are considering similar regulations.

The tide has turned against animal testing worldwide, with one notable exception: China, where tests on animals for most cosmetics and personal-care products are mandatory. PETA pulled back the curtain on some formerly cruelty free companies that had quietly started funding cruel tests so that they would be permitted to sell their products in China. When PETA exposedMAC Cosmetics’ tests, the backlash from outraged customers was swift and severe. MAC vice presidents came clean in a Teen Vogue piece and pledged to fund efforts to end the tests. (IIVS) so that they can collaborate directly with Chinese scientists and government officials, setting up non-animal testing laboratories and training scientists in China, as well as working to get data from non-animal tests accepted by the government. And it’s paid off: China has accepted its first-ever non-animal test, and the country now accepts non PETA was way ahead of them: For years, it has been funding experts at the Institute for In Vitro Sciences

Coverage of the protest made worldwide news, and L'Oréal eventually stopped testing on animals (although today some of its products are animal-tested in China).

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T I M E C A P S U L E

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animal data for some domestically produced cosmetics. PETA and its affiliates won’t relent until all animal tests are history.

Take Action Now Avon stalling! Avon funds animal tests in China and has wavered in its support of IIVS. Tell Avon that you won’t buy its products as long as they’re tested on animals. Please send polite comments to CEO Sherri McCoy at sheri.mccoy@avon.com and Avon Corporate Responsibility at avoncr@avon.com .

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The stuffed squash and Brussels sprouts

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recipes are adapted from the Canada-based blog I Love Vegan.com , where you can find more tasty, affordable, easy recipes.

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Pecan Butter Brussels Sprouts

Leek and Mushroom Couscous Stuffed Squash

Makes 4 servings

Makes 4 servings

Brussels sprouts browned in a crunchy, toasted pecan butter are a simple yet sophisticated side dish.

This hearty dish will take center stage at your holiday table.

YOU’LL NEED • 1 cup uncooked couscous • 1 cup vegetable broth • 1 ² /µ tsp. salt • 2 small acorn squash • 2 Tbsp. olive oil • ² /µ tsp. pepper, plus more for garnish • 1 Tbsp. soy sauce • 2 tsp. maple syrup • ² /´ tsp. vinegar • 1 slice maple tempeh bacon, chopped • 2 cloves garlic, minced • 1 leek, thinly sliced • ² /´ cup chopped carrots • 1 cup sliced mushrooms • ² /´ cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed • ² /´ cup toasted pecans, chopped • ² /´ tsp. dried thyme

• Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). • Cut the squash in half and scoop out the seeds with a spoon. Coat the insides with 1 tablespoonful of the olive oil and sprinkle with the remaining salt and the pepper. Bake for 40 minutes, with the cut sides facing up. • Combine the soy sauce, maple syrup, and vinegar. Lightly brush the squash with the mixture and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes. Reserve the excess liquid. • Warm the remaining olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the chopped tempeh bacon and sauté for 30 seconds. Add the garlic, leek, and carrots and cook until the carrots are nearly tender. Add the mushrooms and cook until all the vegetables are tender. • Add the chickpeas, pecans, thyme, cooked couscous, and reserved soy sauce mixture and stir well. • Scoop ² /´ cup of flesh out of each squash half. Cut into bite-size pieces and add to the couscous mixture. • Spoon the filling into each squash half. Top with black pepper and serve.

YOU’LL NEED • 2 cups Brussels sprouts • Water, for boiling • 1 Tbsp. vegan margarine • ² /´ cup pecans, chopped

Brussels sprouts/acorn squash recipes: © Randi Fair Photography | Sugar plum recipe: © Jackie Sobon | Red ribbon: © iStock.com/Valengilda | Red bow: © iStock.com/iMelamory

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• 1 tsp. brown sugar • ² /µ tsp. lemon juice • Pinch salt

METHOD • Trim off the bottoms of the Brussels sprouts, as well as any wilted outer leaves. • Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the Brussels sprouts and boil for 10 minutes. Drain and immediately plunge into an ice bath. Drain again and cut in half. • In a medium skillet, warm the vegan margarine over medium heat. Add the pecans and sauté for 2 minutes, or until fragrant. • Add the Brussels sprouts to the skillet and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until evenly browned. Add the brown sugar, lemon juice, and salt

METHOD • Add the couscous, vegetable broth, and 1

teaspoonful of the salt to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer over low heat until the liquid has been absorbed then set aside.

and stir until well coated. • Spoon into a serving dish.

Sweetness and Light Sugarplums

Makes about 2 dozen sugarplums and keeps for 1 week in the refrigerator

These easy Indian-spiced sugarplums will make any get-together feel more festive.

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METHOD • Place the dates and apricots in a food processor and pulse until the mixture just starts to come together. • Add the cardamom seeds, anise seeds, and walnuts and pulse again until just combined. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight. • Pour the cinnamon or cocoa into a shallow bowl. Form the date mixture into balls the size of walnuts and roll in the cinnamon or cocoa until completely coated.

• 12 dried Medjool dates, pitted • 8 dried apricots • ² /µ tsp. cardamom seeds

• ² /µ tsp. anise seeds • 1 ² /µ cups walnuts • ² /´ cup ground cinnamon or unsweetened cocoa powder This recipe is adapted from Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner by Ellen Kanner, avai€able from PETACatalog.com .

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Bringing Science Into the 21 st Century Science background: © iStock.com/MATJAZ SLANIC

The Consortium is working to replace the hundreds of millions of animals abused and killed in experiments each year with high-tech, animal-free test methods. A Smoking Robot and Three-Dimensional Tissues So far, the Consortium and its international affiliates have provided more than $5 million to develop and implement non-animal testing methods, including these: • A three-dimensional lung tissue model to replace the animals forced into the aforementioned inhalation tubes • An antitoxin produced without bleeding and abusing horses • Internationally used computer models for predicting toxicity instead of poisoning animals • A tissue model, now accepted around the world, to replace rabbits in corrosion tests that cause painful, oozing ulcers The Consortium also donated a “smoking robot” and three other non-animal inhalation machines to four international laboratories so that, for the very first time, they can test e-cigarettes and other hazardous substances under conditions that mimic human exposure and don’t use animals.

Consortium scientists also regularly meet with representatives of the chemical, pesticide, pharmaceutical, medical device, and personal care product industries to collaborate on strategies for implementing non-animal test methods. No Dogs, Rabbits, or Rats, Please: We Can Do Better Consortium scientists worked with personal lubricant maker Good Clean Love to persuade the US Food and Drug Administration to accept results – for the first time ever – from simple, non-invasive skin tests on human volunteers, instead of requiring the company to inject rabbits and guinea pigs with lubricants, and paved the way for other companies to do the same. They also persuaded the Indian government to accept non-animal methods to replace rabbits in drug tests, and in Canada, their efforts led to the elimination of a test in which dogs were repeatedly poisoned with pesticides over the course of an entire year. Thanks in part to the groundwork laid by the Consortium’s scientific research and collaboration, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21 st Century Act recently became US law. The legislation,

Consortium scientists work with government agencies to replace animal tests with humane methods.

I magine being shoved into a tube so narrow that you can’t move a muscle while toxic substances that burn your lungs are pumped into it – and being left to suffer like that for hours. That’s what animals endure in crude, cruel tests that have been going on for decades, even though the results are unreliable, partly because superior, non-animal tests have not yet been adopted by slow-to-modernize regulatory agencies. But the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, is changing that.

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Members of the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd.: PETA UK | PETA US | PETA Germany | PETA India | PETA Asia | PETA Australia | PETA France | PETA Netherlands

Produce an antitoxinwithout using horses as living blood banks: $80,000

Develop cell and tissue tests that replace animals, including a method now approvedworldwide to spare rabbits from corrosion testing: $600,000

Purchase and distribute virtual dissection software: $63,000

Develop computer models to predict chemical hazards without poisoning animals: $350,000

‘Smoking Robot’ image: © Vitrocell | EpiAirway image: © MatTek Corp.

Funding the Future of Science Here are just sumof the cutting-edge technologies and advancements the PETA International Science Consortiumand its members have funded directly and supported by obtaining donations of equipment and services.

Purchase and provide simulators that replace animals in surgical training: $2,675,000

Replace guinea pigs andmice in painful skin tests: $115,000

Replace animals forced to inhale chemicals before being killed: $625,000

Contests and awards for scientists to develop and use animal-free test methods: $40,000

Replace animals in shellfish toxicity tests that causemice to suffer seizures, paralysis, and death: $12,000

Replace animals in lethal poisoning tests: $60,000

which requires the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce and replace animal use, will modernize chemical testing and has the potential to save millions of animals’ lives. By funding non-animal test method development, working with companies and government agencies to implement these superior newmethods, hosting free workshops and webinars, and presenting and publishing papers on all of it, the Consortium is revolutionizing chemical and product testing. Consortium scientists participate in international conferences, are published in respected scientific and trade journals, and have earned the prestigious Lush Prize Training Award for replacing animal tests through education and training. That’s quite an anniversary present for this hard working team of scientists, but it’s only the beginning: With your support, they’re sure to celebrate many more global victories for animals in the future.

Replacing Animals in Inhalation Testing

From rats stuck in inhalation tubes ...

P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E

… and three-dimensional human lung tissue models, the Consortium is modernizing laboratories

around the world with animal-free methods

Take Action Now Please visit PETA.org/UrgeFDA to urge the agency to accept superior, non-animal

test methods that result in safer drugs.

... to a “smoking robot” ...

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In Loneliness They Suffer,

PETA Saves Mice and Monkeys in Agony They Die. P U T T I N G V I V I S E C T I O N U N D E R T H E M I C R O S C O P E

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“A necropsy diagnosis to determine cause of death was not possible due to the condition of the remains.” – From a USDA inspection report citing the MD Anderson Cancer Center after the death of a monkey who was left in a cage that was run through a cagewashing machine and died.

Not ‘Just’ Mice and Rats, but Individuals Over 95% of animals abused in experiments are mice and rats: Millions of these small mammals – who can feel pain just as acutely as you or I can – are killed every year. In the US, they are not even considered animals under federal law. All over the world, mice and rats are poisoned in toxicology tests, burned on hot plates, tormented and bullied to cause depression and psychosis, electroshocked in pain studies, addicted to cocaine, intentionally given cancer, injected with human cells in Frankenstein-like genetic-manipulation experiments, and much more. Used and Abused PETA scientists have analyzed hundreds of reports documenting abuse of mice and rats at top US universities. Over the course of just 27 months, these institutions racked up 430 violations of government guidelines. Mice and rats were left to starve when workers didn’t feed them, drowned when watering devices malfunctioned, and thrown into freezers and suffocated while still alive. Primate Prisons PETA has sent eyewitnesses into some of the biggest primate laboratories in the world. The videos shot inside paint a bleak picture: monkeys imprisoned in barren steel cages or concrete-floored pens, rocking incessantly or pulling out their own fur in despair. They are starved, infected with diseases, poisoned, and psychologically tortured – often for decades. At Primate Products, Inc., a massive breeding facility in Florida, monkeys have been left outside in all kinds of weather, leading to frostbite and even death from

exposure. One monkey looked as if she’d been in a boxing match after a worker whacked her head against a bar in a pen. At Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, a Japanese owned contract laboratory, a whistleblower saw workers grab, throw, and slam monkeys down so violently that they sustained bruises, bloodied noses, and broken fingers, toes, and tails. In hideous experiments at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, monkeys were starved in order to make them “voluntarily” consume alcohol and then killed to determine the effects on their organs, which have already been widely studied and are well known. PETA exposés of these and many other facilities have led to government investigations, citations, and fines, but there’s much more work to be done. Shuttering the Labs After years of PETA protests and formal complaints, Harvard University closed its controversial primate laboratory in 2015. Last year, after PETA collected 100,000 signatures and delivered them to politicians, the Dutch Parliament voted to phase out experiments at Europe’s largest primate-testing laboratory in the Netherlands and is moving toward ending all animal tests. After being deemed “largely unnecessary,” experiments on chimpanzees have ended worldwide. If experiments on chimpanzees – our closest relatives, with whom we share more than 98% of our DNA – are pointless, how can experiments on other primates – or any other animals – be justified?

EYEWITNESS

DANIEL ENGBER once thought that he might pursue a career as an experimenter. In an article that he wrote for Sate , he talked about returning to visit the monkey who had been “assigned” to him in graduate school: My research monkey had a pink face, dark eyes, sandy fur, and a 2-inch titanium rod screwed into the top of his skull. His name was C ayton. … In all the time IŸd been gone, C ayton had lived in the same room, on the same feeding schedule, and with many of the same neighbors. Since weŸd ast seen each other, IŸd moved across the country twice, quit graduate school, and become a journalist. … For C ayton, though, nothing has changed. Every day or two, heŸs carted off to a room painted all in b ack, and his head is fixed in p ace by the post that still protrudes from his skull. He sits there as always, staring at targets on a computer screen. When he moves his eyes the way heŸs supposed to, he gets a droplet of Tang as a reward.

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