Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Tremendous, hard-won progress—after PETA revealed almost a decade ago that formerly cruelty-free companies had covertly started paying for animal tests so that they could market their products in China, it’s now looking likely that the Chinese government will end requirements for many imported cosmetics to be tested on animals!
  2. Emmy Award winner, Academy Award nominee, and superstar for animals James Cromwell delivered a message on PETA’s behalf to more than 10,000 National Institutes of Health employees, alerting them to the real-life horror story that’s playing out in their colleague Elisabeth Murray’s primate laboratory.
  3. PETA is urging Colorado authorities to audit the use of public funds, personnel, and other resources at laboratories in the University of Colorado system after campuses—which received $169 million in state appropriations during the last fiscal year—may have suspended planned experiments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and killed hundreds of animals slated to suffer in them.
  4. Our latest op-ed rouses readers to “give a hoot about owls” and join our push to shut down a basement of horrors at Johns Hopkins University, where experimenter Shreesh Mysore clamps barn owls’ eyes open and pokes around in their brains while subjecting them to distressing sights and sounds.
  5. We told you so! Scientific papers recently published in medical journals prove what PETA’s been saying for decades—that when it comes to helping humans with depression, terrifying experiments on rats and monkeys are a massive failure.