Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA has uncovered the hideous deaths and animal welfare violations plaguing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratories. We’re calling for the agency’s accreditation to be revoked so that it can focus on helping humans.
  2. After discussions with PETA and our friends at Kindness to Animals in Taiwan, Lian Hwa Foods Corporation—a popular snack-food company based in that country and a major supplier to 7-Eleven stores there—has become the latest Taiwanese giant to ban all animal tests that aren’t explicitly required by law.
  3. Victory! After hearing from horrified PETA entities, the founder of a Congolese space-exploration company (who has been dubbed the “African Einstein”) has announced that he won’t shoot a guinea pig named Galaxionaut into space and will instead immediately free him. We’ve awarded him a PETA Lifesaver Award for his commitment to a total ban on the use of animals in space experiments.
  4. Progress against primate torment—we garnered widespread media coverage for our letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, demanding an investigation of Texas Biomedical Research Institute after more than 150 baboons suffered from severe frostbite when the facility failed to protect them during a winter storm. Our heartbreaking new video offers yet another glimpse into monkeys’ misery, revealing the deprivation and loneliness that primate prisoners endure at the University of Washington.
  5. Author and animal expert Sy Montgomery has added her support to PETA’s campaign to free primates from laboratories. She’s written to National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, condemning the abuse of social, sensitive macaques in callous and crude fright experiments and reminding the government and the public alike that animals belong in their natural habitats, not inside laboratory cages.