Kerry Group Among Latest Firms to End Funding for Animal Tests After PETA US Push

06.06.2025

Tralee, Co. Kerry — In a significant win for animals, one of Ireland’s largest food companies, Tralee-based Kerry Group, has joined more than a dozen companies to stop funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA US.

As revealed today by the Isthmus, PETA US recently sent a letter to the institute’s director, Charles Kaspar, urging him to align the institute’s policy with growing industry sentiment by ending all funding of cruel, irrelevant tests on animals.

“Thanks to Kerry Group’s swift action, the Food Research Institute has fewer dollars to squander on cruel tests on animals that help no one,” says PETA US Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on the institute to follow the rapidly growing shift away from these irrelevant and inhumane experiments and toward superior, animal-free research.”

After PETA US informed Kerry Group that the Food Research Institute force-feeds mice parasite-infested feces, poisons pregnant monkeys and kills their unborn babies, and conducts other deadly experiments, the company requested the institute use its funding only for non-animal research.

After hearing from PETA US, the institute changed its sponsorship policy and created a new fund—the “Food Research Institute Programmatic (Non-animal) Support Fund”—that lets sponsors prevent their donations from funding animal testing.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Facebook, X, TikTok, or Instagram.

Contact:

Sascha Camilli +44 (0) 20 7923 6244; [email protected]

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