Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. In a huge development for animals suffering in laboratories and other dismal places, PETA and our co-plaintiffs have settled lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding its sudden removal of records related to animal-abusing facilities from its website in 2017. As part of the settlement, the USDA has committed to providing public access to those restored records—and PETA will keep pressure on the agency to do its job and thoroughly inspect any facility where animals are vulnerable to abuse and neglect.
  2. Sweet victory! PETA and PETA Germany persuaded Swiss chocolate giant Barry Callebaut to ban all animal experiments not explicitly required by law—and the company joins a growing list of others we’ve nudged to make this compassionate move.
  3. Thanks to PETA India scientists, the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission has removed the deadly and flawed “abnormal toxicity test” from its official compilation of approved drug tests, which will prevent thousands of guinea pigs and mice every year from being injected with vaccines before they’re killed.
  4. Here’s an exciting and timely learning opportunity: As researchers race to create COVID-19 therapeutics, the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. has co-launched a free, publicly available webinar series exploring how animal-free recombinant antibodies can be applied to help fight viruses and bacteria in the human body.
  5. Through an eye-catching mobile billboard and a television ad blitz running until next month, we’re showing the public that National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray uses taxpayers’ dollars to terrify brain-damaged monkeys with rubber snakes and spiders—and ramping up pressure to stop the torment.