Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

PETA is leading the global movement to end experiments on animals, and we have a team of 35 dedicated staff members—17 of whom are scientists—working to make that goal a reality.

Through our vigorous campaigns, sponsorship and promotion of non-animal testing methods, and collaborations with companies and regulatory agencies, we’re stopping the suffering that animals endure at experimenters’ hands.

Here are just a few highlights from the recent work of PETA entities worldwide:

    1. PETA recently placed ads in The Hill and The Washington Times calling on the Trump administration and Congress to divert the National Institutes of Health’s budget—of which it wastes $15 billion on cruel animal experiments that fail to produce human-relevant results—to fund modern, non-animal research that can produce cures and treatments for humans. We also commissioned a mobile billboard to circle Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Florida.
    2. Golden Globe–winning actor Edie Falco teamed up with PETA to leave voicemails for more than 2,000 faculty and staff members at the University of Delaware urging them to ask the school’s president to end experimenter Tania Roth’s bullying of and abusive tests on rats.
    3. After filing a similar lawsuit against the University of California–Davis last month, PETA is suing the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and Oregon Health & Science University to compel them to release photos and video footage of taxpayer-funded experiments on monkeys. Experimenters know that the public will be outraged if it sees footage of experimenters terrorizing infant monkeys and psychologically traumatized monkeys ripping out their own hair and attacking their own bodies, and we are demanding the legally required release of these materials.
    4. Julia Baines of PETA U.K. spoke at a meeting of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals on March 28, taking authorities to task for apparently allowing experimenters to violate the European Union’s ban on using animals for cosmetics testing.
    5. PETA worked with biotech startup Wild Earth to avoid cruel laboratory tests on animals for its vegan food and treats for dogs, and the company secured a $550,000 investment from Mark Cuban on a recent episode of Shark Tank!