Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. A huge victory for small animals! After a meeting with scientists from PETA and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to prevent hundreds of rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs from being used in deadly pesticide poisoning tests each year.
  2. We’re making a ruckus, pointing out in the media that Oregon Health & Science University torments animals and violates the First Amendment. After PETA condemned tests in which voles were given alcohol in an alleged attempt to study male fidelity, the school seems to have deleted videos of these experiments and then misled us for months about their existence—prompting us to expand our open-records lawsuit to a freedom-of-speech case.
  3. We conducted a breakdown of the National Institutes of Health by the numbers to show members of Congress and others that the agency is squandering billions of taxpayer dollars on the imprisonment and torture of monkeys, dogs, rabbits, and other animals, all while failing to advance our understanding of human medicine and racking up serious animal welfare violations. As just one example, animals starved to death or died of dehydration in six incidents because agency staff forgot to give them water or feed them.
  4. As part of our campaign to get Ajinomoto—the leading global manufacturer of the flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (or MSG)—to stop force-feeding animals, starving them, injecting them with drugs, and cutting them open in hideous experiments, PETA has become a shareholder in the Japan-based conglomerate. Our stock purchase nabbed coverage in the world’s largest financial newspaper.
  5. On our blog and in a recent letter to the journal Biology Letters, PETA slammed hypocritical experimenter Christine Lattin for trapping and terrifying birds in bizarre, wasteful tests. That is not the kind of publicity she wants, but it’s the kind she deserves until she stops.