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5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. We’re turning the screws on experimenters who use taxpayer funds to terrify monkeys. Oscar winner and PETA pal Anjelica Houston joined our campaign and wrote to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dozens of outlets ran an eye-opening op-ed from one of our scientists, and we sent cheeky rolls of toilet paper to members of Congress, urging them to wipe out NIH’s wasteful spending.
  2. With demonstrations, shareholder pressure, and help from tens of thousands of our supporters, PETA has pushed Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and other pharmaceutical giants to ban the forced swim test—and we’re now challenging Eli Lilly to reassess its use of this cruel near-drowning experiment and report its findings to other shareholders.
  3. We flooded “King of Pain” Peter Nghiem with 30,000 postcards and petitions demanding that he put an end to the suffering of dogs in Texas A&M University’s canine muscular dystrophy laboratory.
  4. After hearing from PETA, Ball Corporation and an Austrian government agency are distancing themselves from Wings for Life and the hideous spine-crushing, nerve-electrocuting animal tests it funds.
  5. In recent episodes of The PETA Podcast and the Daily Mail‘s Coronacast Daily, PETA U.K. scientist and coronavirus researcher Dr. Samantha Saunders helps listeners understand how archaic animal tests are hindering COVID-19 research.