Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. We’ve exposed the real reason why, after 50 years, the U.S. hasn’t won the war on cancer: Archaic, wasteful animal tests are getting in the way. But PETA is offering the solution to help scientists focus on better research methods.
  2. PETA’s put thousands of special pennies—each one engraved with the message “Free the JHU Owls”—into circulation in Baltimore after mailing a pair of them to every staff member at Johns Hopkins University. It’s our latest attention-grabbing call for experimenter Shreesh Mysore to stop restraining sensitive barn owls and fiddling with their brains in crude and distressing tests.
  3. We’re keeping the pressure on Texas A&M University for its failure to release the 19 survivors of its canine muscular dystrophy laboratory by visiting another Board of Regents meeting and demanding that loyal, loving dogs get a chance at adoption.
  4. PETA U.K. scientists supported companies in their appeals against draconian European Chemicals Agency animal-testing requirements and won, preventing hundreds of animals from being forcefully exposed to potentially toxic substances.
  5. Yet another victory for animals in Taiwan! After hearing from PETA, the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration has changed a draft regulation to delete animal testing for blood pressure health claims on food and beverages. (Folks may remember that this agency also recently announced an end to drowning and electroshock tests for companies to make anti-fatigue health claims.)