Sandy Lopez

Award-Winning Print & Digital Journalist | Bilingual Reporter English/Spanish | Investigative, Enterprise & Accountability Reporting

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

You might've heard about the Save Our Bacon Act. Turns out that the main group lobbying for it--Natl. Pork Producers Council--has taken $66M from a farmer fund intended to promote pork, & which legally cannot be used for lobbying. 40% of the $66M hasn't been previously reported.

[Sandy Lopez @JournalismSandy]

@TBCsusan @young_fathers I loved the song! Will you release it soon?

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

PETA names Chicago the country’s most vegan-friendly city
https://t.co/EDwWH6NmNB

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

"They want to live. They want to be free."

Animal rights group PETA said the cow that escaped a rodeo in Masbate and swam out to the sea for about 2 kilometers should be moved to a sanctuary, calling the action of the cow a "desperate bid for freedom."

Read: https://t.co/O2LuX4Oy4m

[billboard @billboard]

Wu-Tang Clan’s Masta Killa Explains Why You Should Go Vegan in PETA Spot: ‘There’s Really No Excuse’
https://t.co/rPEbC33AHp

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

I was deeply moved from hearing and reading the stories of slaughterhouse workers' struggles with PTSD and other mental health challenges. I think you will be too: https://t.co/zcZFtutMGo

[Sandy Lopez @JournalismSandy]

@sarahrudlang @NC_Governor @ncspeakerhall @SpecNews1RDU Congrats, Sarah! 🥳

[Kenny Torrella @KennyTorrella]

Last week, news of thousands of abandoned mail-order baby chicks got a lot of news attention. It inspired me to write about the bigger problem of animal transportation: https://t.co/40tPaYB4j8

[Tim Lammers @TimLammersFilms]

Here's a new piece I just published on @Forbes about #TimBurton and his dog Levi teaming with @peta to create exclusive pet adoption merch! #PETA https://t.co/e01q2MmiD5

[KATU News @KATUNews]

OHSU appealed a court order requiring it to pay more than $400,000 to PETA over a controversial experiment which involved giving prairie voles the equivalent of 15 bottles of wine a day to study the impact of alcohol on infidelity.
https://t.co/X95L8UJHof

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Make Your Own Hermes Bag: @peta Launches Satirical DIY (Dismember It Yourself) Birkin Bag Tutorial. via @tcagency_
https://t.co/jRenRPs0UD

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

A man is caught on camera slamming a dog to the ground before kicking and dragging the poor pooch. Now, PETA is offering a reward to find the abuser, and the dog that they believe is likely injured. The desperate Long Beach search - Tonight at 11 from ABC7 https://t.co/MpMYwrcbJn

[Scott Taylor @ScottTaylorTV]

Listen to Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, Senior Science Advisor of Primate Experimentation with @peta answer my questions about the latest on 1,000 monkeys still in limbo with some being held at Charles River Labs in Frederick, Maryland.

The @USFWS have no comment on it's investigation

The macaques were not allowed to enter the United States almost four years ago over claims the monkeys were caught in the wild and not born in labs in Cambodia. @7NewsDC

[Fox News @FoxNews]

PETA, animal rights groups praise Trump admin for phasing out 'cruel tests on dogs' and other animals https://t.co/AnV1W3JEkp

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

PETA Thanks Trump Admin for Phasing Out Animal Testing at FDA, EPA | Olivia Rondeau, Breitbart News

Animal rights nonprofit group PETA is praising the Trump administration for its work to end animal testing within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), thanking them for “helping spare tens of thousands of animals each year.”

The FDA announced Thursday it is phasing out its animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of “more effective, human-relevant methods.”

“The FDA’s animal testing requirement will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches, including AI-based computational models of toxicity and cell lines and organoid toxicity testing in a laboratory setting (so-called New Approach Methodologies or NAMs data),” the administration stated.

FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary said drug manufacturers have performed “additional animal testing of drugs” for which they already have had human data “for too long.”

“By leveraging AI-based computational modeling, human organ model-based lab testing, and real-world human data, we can get safer treatments to patients faster and more reliably, while also reducing R&D costs and drug prices,” Makary, part of President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” team, added. “It is a win-win for public health and ethics.”

The EPA made a similar announcement on the same day, with a spokesperson for Administrator Lee Zeldin telling the Washington Times that the agency would reinstate a policy from the first Trump administration to phase out animal testing.

“Under President Trump’s first term, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing and committed to reducing testing on mammals by 30% by 2025 and to eliminate it completely by 2035,” the spokesperson said. “The Biden administration halted progress on these efforts by delaying compliance deadlines. Administrator Zeldin is wholly committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing.”

PETA, which has blasted health officials such as Dr. Anthony Fauci for past animal testing, released a positive statement in response to the Trump administration’s recent policy directives.

“PETA applauds the FDA’s decision to stop harming animals and adopt human-relevant testing strategies for evaluating antibody therapies,” PETA senior vice president Kathy Guillermo said.

“It’s a significant step towards meeting the agency’s commitment to replace the use of animals – which PETA has worked hard to promote. All animal use, including failed vaccine and other testing on monkeys at the federally-funded primate centers, must end, and we are calling on the FDA to further embrace 21st-century science,” the statement continued.

The animal rights organization further thanked the administration on X after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a Fox News article on the topic:

Read more:

https://t.co/RP9SdvYkQL

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NEW Billboard in Times Square reads “It Ain't Just MANhattan. I'm a New Yorker, too. Give Me Respect"

[Tomi Lahren @TomiLahren]

PETA Director Unveils CRUEL Animal Testing Funded By NIH | Tomi Lahren is Fearless - YouTube https://t.co/TxH6UA2tiC

[Willamette Week @wweek]

Peter Barr-Gillespie, chief research officer at Oregon Health & Science University, held an emergency meeting with staff Thursday to brief them on pressure leaders are getting from Gov. Tina Kotek to close the Oregon National Primate Research Center. https://t.co/vb8QoFzctx

[The Ann Arbor News @annarbornews]

PETA offering reward for information on dog found in Ann Arbor dumpster https://t.co/VahvFv8osU

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Being Vegan is Good Sh*T! New @peta Video Highlights Poowerful Digestion Pros of Plants. via @samyalliance
https://t.co/AlSegbszJX