Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Discover how PETA is exposing cruelty and holding experimenters accountable:

  1. Great news! After hearing from PETA, scientists, and other experts, Brazil has now banned a pesticide test in which dogs are repeatedly poisoned and then killed.
  2. Are animals suffering in a laboratory near you? Find out with PETA’s new “Failed Tests” interactive web feature.
  3. PETA is urging the National Institutes of Health to pull funding from the University of Wisconsin’s laboratory, where a worker recently broke a marmoset’s leg so severely that it had to be amputated. It’s just the latest violation of animal protection laws on this campus.
  4. Yesterday, PETA’s giant, eye-catching “mutilated mouse” rode the escalator in the Bethesda, Maryland, Metro Station—keeping pressure on the National Institute of Mental Health to stop conducting the forced swim test.
  5. Even the director of the National Institute of Mental Health admitted to the journal Nature that the forced swim and tail suspension tests aren’t useful ways to study human health.