Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo regarding the death today of Nobel following the fifth race. Nobel is the 13th horse to die at Saratoga Race Course during this season:
Let Nobel be the last horse to die at Saratoga this year, and shut the track down now. PETA urged NYRA to suspend racing last week until real safety measures could be put in place, but greed triumphed over compassion, and now a 13th horse lies dead at the Saratoga “slaughterhouse.” Today, on Travers Day, the racing industry has shown once again that it’s fine with killing horses, even at its biggest events. HISA must hold NYRA accountable and immediately shutter this track.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Below, please find a statement from PETA President Ingrid Newkirk following the passing of TV legend and longtime supporter Bob Barker:
Bob’s influence on the entertainment industry is indisputable, but what mattered to him most was using his voice and prominent position to protect animals. Of course, everyone is familiar with his “spay and neuter your pets” sign-off on The Price Is Right—a show where he refused to allow fur prizes—but he was also one of the first stars to go vegetarian, more than 30 years ago. He joined PETA in urging families to stay away from SeaWorld, demanded the closure of cruel bear pits masquerading as tourist attractions, implored Hollywood to take action to protect animals used in film and TV, and, as a Navy veteran, called for the end of military medical drills on live animals. His generous donation allowed PETA to open its West Coast headquarters, the Bob Barker Building, in 2012, and it stands as a testament to his legacy and profound commitment to making the world a kinder place. To us—and to so many animals around the world—Bob will always be a national animal rights treasure.
PETA’s motto reads that “animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way,” and more information is available at PETA.org.
Even though it seemed as if he alone would defy the laws of nature, the indomitable Bob Barker is gone. Bob was beloved around the world and left knowing that his work and his legacy will continue.
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Bob’s influence in the entertainment industry is indisputable, but what mattered to him most was making a difference for animals. He used his voice and his position at every opportunity to help animals in trouble. Of course, everyone knows of Bob’s “spay and neuter your pets” sign-off on The Price Is Right, but many may not know that Bob would not allow anything made of fur or leather to be given away. Out of respect for Barker’s commitment to vegetarianism, meat products were never advertised on the show. Even after leaving the show, Bob appealed to producers to pull trips to SeaWorld from the prize packages.
Bob’s warmth and charm were very real. When he visited Cherokee, North Carolina, to plead for relief for the bears in the reservation’s appalling roadside zoos, practically everyone in town lined up to meet him. He was patient and gracious and urged everyone he spoke with to take a stand against keeping bears in concrete pits.
Even at age 92, it took only one take for Bob to film a PETA video which was sent to every member of Congress condemning the National Institutes of Health’s insupportable and deeply cruel maternal-deprivation experiments on infant monkeys.
Bob’s heart was open and so was his wallet. He said he was thrilled to spend $700,000 to pay to ship elephants Toka, Thika and Iringa from their cramped enclosure at the Toronto Zoo to the large green expanse of the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary in California. Bob was at the sanctuary to greet the girls when they arrived.
Bob gave $2 million to Missouri’s Drury University for the school to add an animal rights professorship and an animal ethics course to the curriculum. He purchased human-patient simulators to replace cats in medical exercises at Washington University in St. Louis (and offered to find homes for the cats, too!).
Our West Coast headquarters, the Bob Barker Building, will forever stand as testament to Bob’s forward thinking and profound commitment to making a difference for animals.
To us, and to so many animals around the world, Bob will always be a treasure.
This week, scientists from PETA, PETA U.K., and PETA Germany will present at the 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, the premier conference for scientists set on reducing and replacing flawed and archaic animal studies. The groups’ scientists are slated to chair eight sessions and deliver nine oral and six poster presentations.
Among many other topics, PETA will host a discussion on how voracious experimentation on nonhuman primates has driven two macaque species toward extinction and has increased the risk of zoonotic disease transmission—and, armed with data-driven analysis, they’ll ask attendees to consider whether the costs of these dangerous experiments outweigh any potential benefits.
PETA scientists will discuss the fractured oversight of animal laboratories in the U.S. and present data on the broad impacts of solitary housing on primate behavior and physiology. They’ll also explore the problem of animal methods bias in both scientific funding and publishing, offer suggestions for reducing these biases, and provide practical roadmaps for ushering in 100% animal-free science and education, with information on PETA scientists’ Research Modernization Deal.
“It’s 2023, and we can no longer ignore that animal experimentation is abysmally cruel, is monetarily wasteful, and results in faulty data that fails humans left, right, and center,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe. “PETA’s knowledgeable scientists are ready to take this conference by storm and help everyone see that ending experiments on animals is the only path forward.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding the citation posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against Oregon Health & Science University after the death of an infant monkey, prompted by an earlier PETA complaint:
The citation that the U.S. Department of Agriculture handed to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)—only at PETA’s insistence—after an infant monkey was crushed to death in front of his frantic mother is not justice. It is, absolutely, the very least the federal government could do.
A citation won’t bring back the baby monkey who endured a gruesome death or atone for the trauma his mother experienced while watching a heavy steel door unsecured by inattentive staff come crashing down on the infant, causing injuries that proved fatal. This tragedy is just one in a horrific and tiresome continuum in which animals have suffered because of OHSU’s utter contempt for even minimal animal welfare regulations.
OHSU should take this citation as the latest sign that it needs to modernize its laboratories and get out of the cruel and worthless animal experimentation business. We urge officials there to adopt PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.
