Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Discover how PETA is exposing cruelty and holding experimenters accountable:

  1. After PETA showed the public that Louisiana State University had purchased dozens of animals from a shelter to use in deadly exercises at its veterinary school, a new Louisiana law will ban shelters from selling animals to laboratories.

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    Dogs’ status as “man’s best friend” offers them no protection from being abused in laboratories. More than 60,000 dogs are tormented in U.S. laboratories every year.

  2. Great news! After hearing from PETA entities, Roche Pharmaceuticals has become the latest major company to ditch the forced swim test.

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    Published by The Dominion PostNew Zealand cartoonist Sharon Murdoch reveals the absurdity of the forced swim test.

  3. PETA research associate Dr. Katherine Roe penned a powerful op-ed urging kind people to help stop Johns Hopkins University experimenter Shreesh Mysore from restraining magnificent barn owls, performing gruesome surgeries on their brains, and tormenting them in a ridiculous attempt to study human attention deficit disorder.

  4. After publicizing details of bleak conditions, filth, and neglect at a facility in Colorado, we’re renewing our call to stop the abuse of animals for antibody production.

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    This March 2016 photo shows sheep being held in filthy, wet conditions at Pi Bioscientific.

  5. Find out how PETA is collaborating with federal agencies to develop superior non-animal testing approaches for everything from pesticides to medical devices.