Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. A shocking six-month-long PETA investigation reveals what Cornelius and other monkeys endure at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. They’ve been driven mad by extreme, near-constant, long-term confinement—over two decades for some. They’ve also been deprived of their most basic needs and treated with cruelty and contempt. Learn more about Cornelius and how you can help us shut down this dreadful facility.
  2. “Godfather of Punk” and animal friend Iggy Pop donated his haunting anthem “Free” for a new PETA music video exposing terror tests on primates—and after launching in a Billboard exclusive, our powerful collaboration is generating a wave of international media attention!
  3. PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe penned a scathing scientific critique revealing why government-funded fright experiments on brain-damaged monkeys are a waste of resources that don’t shed any light on human psychiatric disorders.
  4. It’s been one year since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first announced its groundbreaking plans to phase out toxicity tests on mammals after decades of PETA pressure. In those 12 months, PETA scientists have been hard at work helping the agency end the use of birds, rabbits, mice, and rats in deadly chemical tests.
  5. Just in time for World Sepsis Day (September 13), PETA U.K. has been putting the squeeze on British universities that are still injecting small animals with toxins and puncturing their intestines, rather than embracing the human-relevant sepsis research methods that abound.