Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA’s calling out National Institute of Mental Health Director Joshua Gordon—the head of an agency that squanders millions on pointless and cruel experiments that have never led to treatments for human mental health disorders—for his bizarre claim that opposition to such archaic animal tests somehow stigmatizes humans with mental illness.
  2. After Taiwan responded to PETA pressure by proposing to remove animal tests from its draft regulation for “anti-fatigue” marketing claims, we’re submitting encouraging comments and asking our supporters to do the same until this groundbreaking decision is finalized.
  3. PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna was interviewed on the podcast Citizen Smith to discuss Oregon Health & Science University’s history of deaths, incompetence, and animal welfare violations—while a scathing statement from our Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo appeared in coverage of sadistic “depression” experiments on monkeys who were locked inside cramped cages, randomly electroshocked, and otherwise tortured.
  4. A parliament of PETA “owls” swooped in for a landing on the first day of the new semester at Johns Hopkins University to protest Shreesh Mysore’s cruel, worthless, and apparently illegal brain experiments on barn owls. We also recently placed an attention-grabbing ad in The Washington Times, urging the National Eye Institute to stop funding the hideous tests.
  5. We’re galvanizing our supporters to remind their congressional representatives that mice and rats feel pain, pleasure, fear, and love (as all animals do) and to seek better protections for mice and rats in laboratories.