Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Victory! After months of discussions with PETA, Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee has ended its use of pigs in surgical training for obstetrics and gynecology residents and introduced high-tech, human simulators instead.
  2. At the height of the Tokyo Olympics, PETA Asia’s “rat” mascot scurried to the Tokyo (Ajinomoto) Stadium to call for the sponsor’s name to be kept off the venue as long as Ajinomoto stubbornly refuses to stop conducting gruesome and worthless animal experiments.
  3. Industry outlet STAT reported on PETA’s effort to ban the forced swim test and on the landmark news that influential U.K. scientists have published a paper concluding that the forced swim test is not needed to develop new antidepressant drugs for humans—something PETA’s scientists have been saying for years.
  4. PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell gave a fantastic radio interview debunking wasteful animal tests for sepsis “research” and more.
  5. We’re exposing misery at Brown University’s laboratories once again, revealing chronic neglect and a laundry list of animal welfare violations. Our letter to Brown’s president, urging her to intervene on animals’ behalf, received coverage in the school’s newspaper, too.