Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. Pressure from PETA pays off: The Hass Avocado Board, a major agricultural commodity research and promotion board overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has adopted a new policy banning animal experiments after hearing from us and more than 85,000 of our supporters.
  2. Big Pharma company Eli Lilly is receiving a “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” Award from PETA for attempting to deceive consumers about its archaic animal tests—boasting of its “commitment to responsible animal research” while refusing to ban the cruel, wasteful, and widely debunked forced swim test.
  3. PETA Netherlands raised the alarm after receiving footage of traumatized, drenched, and even drowning animals struggling in water-filled traps set up in a park by biology students and persuaded Aeres University of Applied Sciences to adjust the experiment so that mice won’t be trapped.
  4. Exciting news out of India! A government subcommittee overseeing animal husbandry, feed, and equipment standards has heeded PETA India’s advice and replaced a deadly pathogen test on guinea pigs with a polymerase chain reaction. In addition, the drugs controller general of India has sought a response from pharmaceutical associations regarding PETA India’s recommendation that regulators not accept data from the forced swim test (which is statistically less accurate than a coin toss in predicting substances’ antidepressant properties).
  5. After we filed suit against the University of Washington to compel it to turn over documents related to the notorious Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC), PETA’s turning up the heat again. We’ve placed an eye-catching billboard in the world-famous Pike Place Market, showing a traumatized monkey who reminds Seattleites that the WaNPRC is better known for distress and death than for developing cures for diseases.