Join IDA in Calling for Removal of UCSF’s Accreditation

This week in honor of World Week for Animals in Laboratories, activists will speak out against the abhorrent use of animals in testing and research.

James Cromwell for World Week for Animals in Laboratories

IDA has created the “Outragies Awards” to highlight the bogus use of animals in cruel, repetitive and wasteful research.

As you read these words, I am at a toxicology laboratory in New Jersey leading the In Defense of Animals Rescue Team in an operation that defines my vision of a world with no cages. Recently 55 macaque monkeys and 118 beagles became “seized assets” when the lab went out of business and their fates [...]

On May 8, activists around the world will join IDA and Uncaged(a UK animal protection organization) for the 14th annual “Global Boycott Procter & Gamble Day.” Why boycott Procter & Gamble?  For years, P&G has tested its products on animals while, at the same time, secretly opposing EU legislation that would phase out animal testing [...]

Yesterday, as Americans prepare to file their annual tax returns, In Defense of Animals unveiled its “Top 10 Reasons Why Animal Research is a Cruel Joke” in recognition of ridiculous and wasteful experiments funded by your tax dollars. Why now? Because, when it comes to animal research, every day is April Fool’s Day for American [...]

On Tuesday, IDA released letters from seven celebrities opposed to upcoming animal experiments funded by NASA. The experiments are part of a study entitled “Long-term Effects of Space Radiation in Nonhuman Primates” and they would involve irradiating squirrel monkeys at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a Department of Energy facility in New York State. The celebrities [...]