Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Terrific progress! Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) thought it could get away with concealing videos of taxpayer-funded experiments in which infant monkeys were separated from their mothers and intentionally frightened. However, a favorable ruling on PETA’s lawsuit against OHSU is forcing the school to turn over 74 videos of hideous experiments at the OHSU-operated Oregon National Primate Research Center. Stay tuned!
  2. PETA’s thought-provoking letter from imprisoned monkeys to the directors of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health—who recently complained of anxiety from staying home during the pandemic—is helping many sympathize with the immense suffering that our fellow primates face in cruel psychological experiments.
  3. PETA protesters—including our president, Ingrid Newkirk—circled and honked their horns in a caravan of vehicles to wake everyone up to what’s being done to animals. This “drive-by” demonstration was held outside the NIH campus and the homes of NIH Director Francis Collins and experimenter Elisabeth Murray to oppose the horrors that Murray inflicts on monkeys in her NIH laboratory.
  4. PETA has persuaded every major airline but one to stop transporting monkeys to laboratories, and now (along with other PETA entities) we’re ramping up our campaign urging Air France, the last holdout, to join them at long last.
  5. The powerful and inspiring PETA-produced documentary Test Subjects—which follows three of our scientists who turned their backs on animal tests—is streaming online and inspiring other researchers and doctoral students to speak up, as well as sparking heartfelt conversations about the futility of killing animals in experiments. This week, it was featured in the popular online magazine Aeon