Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will now investigate a University of Alabama–Birmingham transplant laboratory that uses pigs and baboons after PETA released whistleblower footage revealing scores of apparent animal welfare violations as well as hellish conditions and hideous ineptitude.
  2. Huge news for tiny animals! After discussions with PETA, PETA Australia, and Humane Research Australia, the University of Adelaide is ending the cruel and widely discredited forced swim test.
  3. Costumed “golden retrievers” added to the pressure by paying a visit to one Texas A&M University regent’s corporate office, screening audio footage of barking and crying dogs in the school’s laboratory, and demanding that the canine muscular dystrophy lab be shut down and the dogs released.
  4. PETA presented entrepreneur Elon Musk with a challenge befitting a true pioneer: We suggested that he stop being a speciesist and stick a Neuralink computer chip in his own brain, rather than exploiting smart, sensitive pigs who didn’t volunteer for his company’s surgeries.
  5. We’ve filed a complaint with the USDA as part of our determined effort to push the University of Washington to close the Washington National Primate Research Center—where monkey escapes, possible conflicts of interest, and even COVID-19 exposure highlight an apparent culture of contempt for federal laws and vulnerable individuals of all species.