Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Huge victory for mice and humans! After a vigorous PETA campaign and actions from over 40,000 supporters, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has canceled funding for a crude, cruel, and astonishingly racist study at the University of Illinois at Chicago—where experimenters planned to make mice fight to mimic “violence observed in urban communities.”
  2. PETA supporters carted a larger-than-life monkey statue—bearing more than 236,000 signatures—across Seattle, calling on officials at the University of Washington to shut down the notoriously cruel and wasteful Washington National Primate Research Center and release monkeys from lives of misery.
  3. There’s a new president at the helm of Texas A&M University, and PETA is urging her to close the school’s canine muscular dystrophy laboratory and ensure that 20 surviving dogs are freed for a chance at adoption.
  4. An innovative Ontario researcher has won a cutting-edge in vitro device (a gift from PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and MedTec Biolab Inc.) that will help further her work to replace the use of animals in inhalation toxicity testing.
  5. We’re reminding the world once again that entrepreneur Elon Musk is a world leader when it comes to exploiting animals: His company SpaceX is now condemning 128 baby squid and more than 5,000 tardigrades (or water bears) to be sent to the International Space Station and tormented in experiments that have no relevance for humans. Earlier, he sent mice into space.