Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA supporters, including a giant “sheep,” flocked to the 2022 Defense Conference to protest the U.S. Navy’s hideous decompression experiments in which sheep and other animals endure agonizing injuries to their joints, hearts, and spinal cords.
  2. After learning that marmosets named after Star Wars characters are being tortured in invasive menopause experiments at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Daisy Ridley, a star of the space saga, joined us in urging the school to end its cruel tests.
  3. Huge news! Hard work by PETA scientists and Humane Research Australia has prompted a parliamentary inquiry recommending a ban on the forced swim test in New South Wales.
  4. PETA’s “crying pig” led a spirited protest at the University of Tennessee’s fall board meeting, slamming the school’s College of Medicine for collapsing live pigs’ lungs, cutting into their arteries, and breaking open their ribs in archaic medical training drills.
  5. Acclaimed street artist and animal defender Praxis brought the campaign against primate prisons to SoHo in New York City, where he painted a massive mural that depicts suffering monkeys.