Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. The University of Massachusetts–Amherst fought hard to keep the public from seeing video of taxpayer-funded tests on monkeys, but through a successful lawsuit, PETA obtained footage that’s revealing what primates endure at experimenters’ hands.
  2. The Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) is just one of the facilities in hot water after we released footage of miserable monkeys slowly losing their minds. Following a recent incident in which a monkey at WaNPRC went missing and received no food or water for up to two days, we’re ramping up our campaign for all the primates held captive there to be released to sanctuaries.
  3. PETA has obtained government documents revealing even more about the grotesque brain surgeries, forced injections, and food deprivation that monkeys endure at the hands of National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray, and we’ve filed a formal complaint alleging serious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
  4. PETA supporters flocked to the home of notorious Johns Hopkins University experimenter Shreesh Mysore, reminding his neighbors and the public why he must stop scrambling the brains of barn owls and subjecting these birds to distressing, pointless attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tests.
  5. PETA entities worldwide are cheering savvy researchers for employing cutting-edge, non-animal test methods and technology—including cell-based models, supercomputers, and fully human antibodies—to study COVID-19, and we’re inspiring compassion in the next generation of scientists through real-world STEM activities.