Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. England’s University of Bath is in hot water after PETA U.K. released video footage revealing that it’s subjecting mice to the terrifying and widely debunked forced swim test. Now, PETA U.K. is ramping up the pressure to have it stopped.
  2. PETA’s putting U.S. universities on notice for squandering limited public resources on “non-essential” animal experiments, leading to the massacre of countless animals during pandemic lockdowns. Learn why we’re urging health departments in Alabama and other states to protect laboratory personnel by ending all animal tests and demanding that Virginia Tech stop lying about killing animals in laboratories because of COVID-19 and reimburse the funds that it’s wasted.
  3. An important op-ed from PETA primatologist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel debunks the claims of desperate experimenters—revealing to readers the failure of studies on monkeys to lead to cures for humans. She also points out that with two COVID-19 vaccines already in human trials, it’s absurd to claim that there’s a “shortage” of monkeys for coronavirus experiments.
  4. As Seattleites flocked to shopping centers on Black Friday, PETA’s eye-catching mobile billboard, newspaper ads, and gas station toppers made a bid for freeing tormented monkeys at the University of Washington’s secretive and shameful primate laboratory.
  5. PETA affiliates, Dove, The Body Shop, and hundreds of other companies and organizations have written to European officials, urging them to uphold the European Union’s ban on testing cosmetics ingredients on animals and prevent crude, deadly tests from sneaking in through the back door.