Testing on Animals & Wildlife

On June 4, 2026, the Washington State Board of Health met in Spokane and made a decision that animal welfare advocates and public health campaigners are calling a serious failure of institutional accountability. By a unanimous vote, the board rejected a rulemaking petition that would have required primate research laboratories in Washington to report transmissible […]

There are certain realities that remain largely invisible to the public. They exist behind secured doors, inside highly controlled environments, and within systems most people rarely encounter firsthand. Animal experimentation is one of those realities. For generations, laboratory testing on animals has occupied a controversial position at the intersection of science, medicine, ethics, public policy,

There are moments in animal welfare advocacy when years of investigations, documentation, public pressure, and relentless activism finally collide with government enforcement strongly enough to force an institution to close its doors permanently. For many advocates fighting against animal experimentation, the reported shutdown of Red Beast Enterprises represents one of those moments. According to PETA,

For decades, the global scientific establishment largely treated animal experimentation as an unavoidable foundation of medical and pharmaceutical progress. Laboratories, universities, government agencies, and private corporations built entire research systems around the assumption that testing on mice, rats, rabbits, monkeys, dogs, and other animals represented the most effective pathway toward understanding human disease, drug development,

There are moments in advocacy filmmaking when a campaign stops feeling like a message and starts feeling like confrontation. Not metaphorically. Emotionally. The new short film Bodies of Research does exactly that. Released through PETA on May 18, 2026 and created by filmmakers Favio Vinson and Andres Gomez Orellana, the one-minute horror-style PSA has rapidly

A growing wave of scrutiny is once again focusing national attention on the realities of animal testing in the United States, following deeply concerning revelations from inside one of the country’s most expansive primate research facilities. The New Iberia Research Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette—recognized as the largest primate laboratory in the

A growing national conversation is unfolding around a question that cuts directly across ethics, public policy, and global accountability: should taxpayer dollars from the United States be used to fund animal experimentation in laboratories outside the country? At Sustainable Action Now, this issue sits at the intersection of animal welfare, government transparency, and international oversight.

Every year in the United States, more than 48,000 dogs are confined in laboratory facilities — the overwhelming majority of them beagles. At the same time, monkeys are captured, transported, and shipped into biomedical research environments where stress, confinement, and invasive experimentation define their daily existence. This is not simply an animal welfare issue. It

Across medical research, consumer safety, and environmental science, the long-standing dependence on animals and wildlife for laboratory testing is finally being challenged at scale. What was once treated as an unavoidable scientific norm is now being replaced by faster, more accurate, and more humane technologies built around real human biology, advanced computing, and precision data

Behind the lively chaos of Indonesia’s bustling animal markets, a much darker reality lurks. Tiny baby monkeys, ripped from their forest homes, have been treated like disposable merchandise — sold to anyone with cash in hand. Fear replaces the safety of a troop. Concrete stalls replace jungle branches. Freedom becomes a distant memory. When tip-offs