Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. There has been some long-overdue progress at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Following sustained pressure from PETA, the agency has enacted new policies to mandate the reporting of disease symptoms identified in laboratory-bound monkeys and to require that imported animals who are sick with malaria be treated for it—an important acknowledgment of the many public health risks associated with importing monkeys for experimentation.
  2. After action by PETA and bioethicist Peter Singer, papers describing torturous experiments on monkeys in China have been rightfully scrubbed from the scientific record.
  3. Rock icon Siouxsie Sioux has joined PETA entities in urging Japanese conglomerate Ajinomoto to stop mutilating, force-feeding, bleeding, and otherwise torturing animals in tests not required by any law.
  4. Since the University of Massachusetts–Amherst is embroiled in controversy over its racist school seal, PETA has helpfully designed a new emblem, which better reflects the university’s current values by illustrating the abuse that marmosets endure in its laboratories.
  5. We’re calling for University of Michigan laboratories to stop receiving federal funding after thousands of animals died in them as a result of the staff’s incompetence and negligence.