Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Victory! After months of pressure from PETA, military officials have confirmed that not a single animal was killed in training exercises at this year’s Cobra Gold in Thailand.
  2. Ahead of her performance in Edinburgh, Scotland, rock icon Chrissie Hynde joined PETA U.K. in calling on the local university’s president to ban the use of the hideously cruel and futile forced swim test.
  3. PETA is behind a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, which argues that excluding barn owls imprisoned at Johns Hopkins University—as well as other birds, mice, and rats bred for use in experiments—from the protections of the federal Animal Welfare Act is unconstitutional. Now, we’re countering the feds’ attempts to get the suit kicked out of court.
  4. We’ve filed to add claims of unlawful police monitoring to a suit against Oregon Health & Science University after discovering that at least two school police officers have been receiving almost daily intelligence updates on PETA’s campaign activities.
  5. We’re urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate the University of Wisconsin–Madison after uncovering a mountain of animal welfare violations in its infamously cruel laboratories.