5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Find out how—with your help–PETA is pushing government agencies to stop their cruel and deadly experiments on mice, monkeys, and other animals.

  1. PETA’s Christian outreach division LAMBS is calling on National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins to let his faith guide him toward greater compassion for all beings—including the monkeys tormented in NIH-funded fright experiments.
  2. A bipartisan group of legislators has joined PETA’s campaign for the National Institute of Mental Health to end the forced swim test and other psychological experiments on mice and switch to modern research methods that can actually help humans with mental health disorders.
  3. PETA has obtained records revealing that notorious Louisiana State University experimenter Christine Lattin’s torture of wild birds may violate local bird protection laws..
  4. Terrific progress: With support from PETA India, the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission has made changes to drug testing protocols that will prevent animals from being killed in redundant, lethal vaccine experiments.
  5. As readers of PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s new book Animalkind know, barn owls are fascinating, intelligent animals—and we’re determined to stop these sensitive birds from being brain-damaged in a crude attempt to study human attention-deficit disorders.