5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Alissa the baboon was born into captive misery and used in cruel and pointless experiments at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Learn her story and take action for other baboons suffering in laboratories.  
  2. The death of a man who received a kidney from a genetically altered pig is the latest proof that xenotransplantation is failed science.  
  3. Meet Chewie, a marmoset who suffered in University of Massachusetts–Amherst experimenter Agnès Lacreuse’s laboratory.  
  4. We’re urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate the death of a 3-year-old pig-tailed macaque that occurred during a 30-hour trip by truck from Arizona to the Washington National Primate Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. 
  5. PETA is calling on the Colombian government to stop the abduction of monkeys from their forest homes for use in despicable experiments.