Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA has filed a third free-speech lawsuit against Texas A&M University (TAMU), challenging the baseless rejection of our apolitical bus ad featuring Peony, who suffered and died in the school’s canine muscular dystrophy laboratory. TAMU may want to sweep its cruelty under the rug, but we won’t ever let that happen.
  2. We publicized heartbreaking video footage revealing that—two decades after a PETA investigation into the facility—experimenters at the Oregon National Primate Research Center are still torturing monkeys on the taxpayers’ dime. (In addition, as PETA scientist and new mom Dr. Emily Trunnell points out in a widely watched Facebook video, its sister facility in Wisconsin is no less of a waking nightmare for infant monkeys and their traumatized mothers.)
  3. PETA has launched a terrific new research grant for scientists developing non-animal chemical tests! The Pat C. Wheeler Scholarship was created to recognize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) commitment to phasing out deadly animal experiments, and its name honors the compassionate legacy of EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s late mother. The scholarship was awarded to a completely animal-free laboratory that’s helping to end the use of animals in cruel tests.
  4. S. Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) cast her vote for compassion: She’s joined PETA in demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture stop gouging farmers in order to fund experiments in which animals are force-fed, starved, irradiated, bled, beheaded, or otherwise gruesomely abused.
  5. Our scientists are paving the way for the adoption of animal-free test methods—vital work to prevent horseshoe crabs from going extinct and rabbits from being restrained by the neck and injected with substances. We also encourage federal agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to adopt more effective, humane approaches to drug production.