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5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Huge news! After PETA alerted the Dole Food Company that it was inadvertently funding tests in which mice and rats were electrocuted, starved, and force-fed, the company directed the Mayo Clinic to cut funding for worthless animal experiments and ensure that its Dole-funded nutrition chair supports only non-animal studies for human wellness instead.
  2. Texas A&M University (TAMU) completely missed the point of National Dog Day (August 26): The school toasted its dog mascot, Reveille, on Twitter without sparing a thought for the 29 dogs imprisoned in laboratory cages without comfort or affection. In response, PETA created a beautifully illustrated Twitter thread and Instagram story that introduced hundreds of thousands of social media users to each one of the individual dogs suffering as TAMU’s canine prisoners—generating a deluge of comments and reminding the school why all dogs deserve respect.
  3. Just in time for Johns Hopkins University’s fall semester, we’re waging psychological warfare with a new ad blitz exposing Shreesh Mysore’s crude, nightmarish sensory experiments on brain-damaged barn owls.
  4. We’re driving home the message that archaic animal tests have no place in higher education—or anywhere else. PETA has developed a widely watched video exposing university laboratories’ lockdown-driven killing spree, and we’re now calling for state audits of a growing list of schools to evaluate the waste of public resources on animal experiments so readily deemed “non-essential.”
  5. PETA’s not letting up the pressure on the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our mobile billboard circled the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, showing video footage of monkeys terrorized in Elisabeth Murray’s federally funded fright factory, while PETA student activists in Missouri are showing up in monkey masks for socially distanced protests of her invasive and deadly tests.