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5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. In a milestone for transparency and accountability, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed with PETA that the members of the University of Washington’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee have no constitutional right to operate in secrecy.
  2. In another massive victory, a Colombian environmental agency has raided the primate laboratory that PETA investigated and seized more than 100 owl monkeys who were being tormented in malaria experiments. The National Institutes of Health, which has funneled millions to the Colombian husband-and-wife duo behind these shady tests, still hasn’t broken its silence about the debacle.
  3. After the strangulation death of a young monkey in Margaret Livingstone’s Harvard Medical School laboratory, PETA plastered Boston with posters suggesting that her experiments may make her “the new Boston strangler.”
  4. PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe appeared on a powerful episode of VINE Sanctuary’s In Context talk show to discuss the psychological harm that experimenters like Livingstone inflict on baby monkeys by separating them from their mothers.
  5. We nabbed media coverage for our complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture about JKL Secure Freight, an infamous Nevada-based transport company that failed at least 14 times to secure proper veterinary exams for laboratory-bound monkeys.