<P> In December 2016, PETA released video footage from an investigation at Texas A&M University's dog laboratory, which deliberately breeds dogs to contract muscular dystrophy . PETA claims that for "35 years, dogs have suffered in cruel muscular dystrophy experiments...which haven't resulted in a cure or treatment for reversing the course of muscular dystrophy in humans ." The Houston Press noted that "Texas A&M has been less than transparent about the research, and in some cases has denied that the dogs experience pain or discomfort ." Among other efforts, PETA placed a billboard to oppose the ineffectual research on animals . </P> <P> Bio Corporation, a company that supplies dead animals for study and dissection, was the subject of a November 2017 PETA undercover investigation . It was claimed that video footage showed workers at the company's facility in Alexandria, Minnesota "drowning fully - conscious pigeons, injecting live crayfish with latex and claiming that they sometimes would freeze turtles to death ." PETA brought 25 charges of cruelty to animals against the company . Drowning is not considered an acceptable form of euthanasia, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association, and its standards of humane euthanasia must be followed by companies certified by the United States Department of Agriculture such as Bio Corporation . On 18 April 2018, the case was dismissed and all charges dropped based on the Alexandria City Attorney's Office's assessment that the allegations of cruelty against either pigeons or crayfish were not sufficiently supported . Daniel Paden, PETA's director of evidence analysis, said that PETA is "reviewing its options to protect animals killed at Bio Corporaton ." </P> <P> On 1 May 2018, PETA released an investigation of the mohair industry that led more than 80 retailers, including UNIQLO and Zappos, to drop products made with mohair . The video evidence "depicts goats being thrown around wood floors, dunked in poisonous cleaning solution or having their ears mutilated with pliers....(E) mployees are shown cutting goats' throats, breaking their necks, electrically shocking them and beheading them ." </P> <P> Various states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Utah, have passed so - called "ag - gag" laws in order to prevent PETA and other groups from conducting undercover investigations of operations that use animals . But PETA and a coalition of animal - welfare groups brought a lawsuit, "citing First Amendment protections for free speech," against Idaho that overturned the state's "ag - gag" law in August 2015, setting a precedent that may help overturn these laws in other states . PETA, ALDF, and other groups are also currently suing the states of Utah, North Carolina, and Iowa . "Ag - gag" laws have been heavily promoted by the conservative think tank the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). </P>

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