Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA primatologist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel slammed monkey smugglers and launderers in a powerful NBC Nightly News segment exposing the international primate pipeline. We’ve also called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately suspend the sale or transfer of any monkeys from Cambodia to laboratories while contract-testing companies investigate the origins of any primate prisoners in their laboratories.
  2. PETA obtained documents from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealing that highly pathogenic agents—including one classified as a bioterrorism risk—regularly enter the U.S. via monkey shipments, and we’re urging the CDC to do its part by ending the importation of monkeys. Please see the exposé released by The Guardian. Then, PETA supporters popped up at Dulles International Airport in Virginia brandishing signs encouraging legislators heading home for the holidays to help ground the dangerous monkey business.
  3. Our “monkey graveyard” haunted attendees of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, reminding world leaders that importing monkeys for laboratory experiments has so devastated primate populations that pig-tailed macaques have been listed as endangered and long-tailed macaques are on the brink of extinction.
  4. PETA Netherlands descended on The Hague ahead of a parliamentary debate about the budget of the Dutch ministry responsible for animal testing policy—unfurling an eye-catching banner that challenged a newly appointed minister to honor the Dutch government’s commitments by taking steps to end animal experiments. 
  5. PETA’s sweet new holiday video follows Mabel the beagle as she celebrates her first Christmas in a loving home. It’s a far cry from what she and other dogs endured at Envigo’s breeding facility before a PETA investigation and whirlwind of campaigning helped secure their freedom.