Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Outstanding news! PETA and our international partners have worked for years to stop archaic toxicity tests on animals, and following the first-ever approval of an approach combining multiple non-animal methods to evaluate dermal allergic reactions to chemicals and products, the U.K., the U.S., European Union member states, and other countries must now shift away from using animals in skin sensitization tests.
  2. With guidance from our staff experts and the support of our members, PETA has been part of some of the biggest advances in animal-free research. Now, our scientists are revisiting their favorite victories to get individuals out of laboratory cages.
  3. PETA’s vice president of international laboratory methods, Shalin Gala, and our Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee liaison, Dr. Emily Trunnell, are quoted in a piece exploring the (dubious) ethics of animal tests at the University of California–Los Angeles—which landed on our radar again last year when it killed animals en masse as part of its COVID-19 response.
  4. There are no excuses for restraining and tormenting monkeys (or anyone). PETA’s calling out the apologists who’ve defended government experimenter Elisabeth Murray and her terror-inducing tests.
  5. PETA’s ramping up the pressure on STEM curriculum company Project Lead The Way to cut out animal dissection, and we’ve created an eye-catching spoof logo to remind the company’s president and board chair of the blood on their hands.