Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA has revealed that an experimenter at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University used taxpayer dollars to help fund monkey torture (including the use of food and water deprivation, electric shocks, and sonic blasts) in China—in apparent violation of U.S. federal law. We’re demanding that authorities investigate this obscene case of ethics dumping and take action immediately.
  2. The University of Colorado–Boulder, the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and Oregon Health & Science University are among other institutions in our crosshairs after deeming animals “extraneous” and euthanizing them during the pandemic.
  3. PETA U.K. sent mouse-shaped Valentine’s Day sweets to the vice chancellors of the University of Bath and the University of Bristol—encouraging them to “have a heart” and stop subjecting small animals to the terrifying forced swim test.
  4. We’ve released a disturbing new video of mice struggling to crawl after experimenters in Germany deliberately crushed their spinal cords, and we’re urging these experimenters to show some empathy and embrace cruelty-free research methods that don’t torment animals.
  5. To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11), PETA U.K. placed a feature online highlighting the amazing work of research associate Dr. Samantha Saunders and promoting PETA entities’ Research Modernization Deal—a plan developed largely by brilliant female scientists from around the globe.