Activism

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA U.K.’s Dr. Julia Baines gave a terrific interview to RT explaining why fascinating and complex horseshoe crabs shouldn’t be forcibly bled in dead-end experiments to test vaccines and other medical products.
  2. While the number of animal experiments conducted in the U.K. is gradually declining, experimenters abused more “first-generation” primates last year than in previous years. PETA U.K. is demanding that government agencies embrace the Research Modernization Deal and move toward replacing not only tests on monkeys but also all animal tests.
  3. A powerful letter from PETA primatologist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel reminds research funding agencies that the only way to spare monkeys distress (whether in facilities in the U.K. or at the hands of notorious U.S. National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray) is to keep them out of laboratories in the first place.
  4. PETA’s calling for all federally funded experimenters to undergo mandatory psychiatric evaluation, citing University of Washington experimenter Michael Katze, who infected mice and monkeys with the deadly Ebola virus, repeatedly sexually harassed female employees, and made derogatory comments about minorities. He’s one of many animal experimenters who have harassed, assaulted, or murdered human beings.
  5. With help from nearly 90,000 PETA supporters, we’ve made it impossible for the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration to ignore our call for an end to cruel and futile animal tests—and our joint campaign with PETA Asia garnered coverage in The Merit Times.