5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Together, we’re stopping animal suffering and helping to advance human-relevant science.

  1. Terrific news! The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. has funded a breakthrough project that created human-derived antibodies capable of blocking the poisonous toxin that causes diphtheria—an important step toward ending the use of horses who are being forcibly bled for antitoxin production.
  2. Scientists from the Consortium also gathered with other experts to outline a plan to get even more animal-derived antibodies out of laboratories and promote the development of cruelty-free ones.
  3. PETA has obtained records revealing the suffering of Bruno, Pee Wee, and three other dogs at Texas A&M University who’ve spent nearly a decade locked up in laboratories—and we’re determined to make this new decade a better one for animals like them.
  4. TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division, is urging the principal of a Minnesota school to end cruel, harmful, irrelevant animal experiments like one in which impressionable students dropped toxic vape oil into tanks in which zebrafish were imprisoned.
  5. In a powerful letter picked up by The Guardian, PETA U.K.’s science policy adviser, Dr. Julia Baines, condemns the bizarre, curiosity-driven nonsense perpetrated by experimenters who superglued Velcro to the heads of highly intelligent cuttlefish and forced them to wear 3-D glasses.