Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Discover how PETA is exposing cruelty and holding experimenters accountable:

1. The campaign against the forced swim test is going global! PETA is calling on New Zealand universities to ditch this horrific, bogus test—and our international affiliates have launched their own features and action alerts urging Big Pharma companies to pull the plug on it. Already, three of the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical companies—Johnson & Johnson, Roche, and AbbVie—have banned this near-drowning test.

2. PETA rallied local residents and animal advocates, leading the town of Spring Green, Wisconsin, to withdraw its approval for a dog-breeding mill that plans to sell animals to experimenters. We’re now working with supporters statewide to prevent this hellhole from ever opening.

3. We released new video footage of animals being terrorized in hideously cruel, useless depression experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health, and we’re demanding that the agency embrace humane test methods that could actually help humans.

4. PETA U.K. is exposing deplorable speciesism in British laboratories and urging the government to phase out all animal experiments in favor of human-relevant and cruelty-free test methods.

5. PETA’s rapid-action tool is reminding many of the suffering that mice and rats face in experiments—and creating new support for our work to end their misery.