5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Meet three lucky sisters rescued from a taxpayer-funded laboratory, and learn which institutions are in hot water over animal tests.

  1. PETA’s eyewitness rescued three lucky little rat sisters from misery at the now-infamous government-funded Cleveland Clinic, where experimenters cut small animals’ heads open with pain relief to insert “windows” into their skulls.
  2. This Mental Health Awareness Month (May), PETA’s taking the feds to task with a powerful new and a widely circulated op-ed by one of our scientists—reminding Americans that while humans await treatments for mental-health disorders, government experimenters are messing around, wasting lives and money, and terrorizing mice and monkeys.
  3. PETA U.K. is pressing the World Health Organization and K. regulatory agencies to set a crucial precedent by shunning cruel, ineffective animal experiments and focusing on human-relevant COVID-19 research.
  4. PETA supporters caused an Eli Lilly customer service meltdown as we ramped up our campaign to persuade the pharmaceutical giant to ban the hideous forced swim test.
  5. In recent episodes of The PETA Podcast, our experts have dug even deeper into the animal abuse we’ve uncovered at the Cleveland Clinic and other laboratories supported by the National Institutes of Health.