Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA’s senior science adviser, Dr. Frances Cheng, gave a fantastic, not-to-be-missed interview about our groundbreaking success in stopping horrific animal tests in Taiwan’s food and beverage industry.
  2. A PETA representative took MSG manufacturer Ajinomoto to task at its virtual annual meeting by asking when the company plans to follow dozens of others by ending all animal tests not explicitly required by law.
  3. PETA India’s science policy adviser, Dr. Ankita Pandey, has urged India’s drugs controller general to direct vaccine manufacturers to use animal-free media instead of serum obtained from slaughtered newborn calves in the production of COVID-19 vaccines.
  4. PETA U.K.’s senior science policy adviser, Emily McIvor, has been quoted in widespread coverage of a vile Frankenscience experiment in which male rats were castrated, conjoined with females, and forced to give birth. Her powerful statement is a reminder to many that all animals deserve our respect and shouldn’t be treated like disposable laboratory equipment.
  5. Beagles are being condemned to factory-farm-like conditions at a massive breeding mill in the U.K., just for the sake of archaic toxicity tests. Our vice president of international laboratory methods, Shalin Gala, is quoted in coverage of this hellish dog prison, urging the U.K. to embrace our Research Modernization Deal and implement human-relevant, cruelty-free research methods immediately.