Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. A new PETA undercover investigation into a Minnesota chinchilla-breeding mill reveals that terrified, vulnerable animals were trapped in filthy cages and suffering from festering open wounds, exposed bones, and other severe ailments that went untreated. Watch our new video and learn why we’re calling on the National Institutes of Health, “pet” distributors, and others to stop purchasing chinchillas from anyone.
  2. PETA entities worldwide have been stopping the use of live animals in military training exercises for years—and now, we’ve set our sights on getting defense officials to end the mutilation and killing of animals during this year’s Cobra Gold exercise.
  3. PETA has filed a formal complaint with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, alleging that Johns Hopkins University experimenter Shreesh Mysore failed to obtain permits for his gruesome and deadly tests on barn owls’ brains. These complex birds are protected under Maryland law—and if Mysore can’t be bothered to file required paperwork, he has no business digging around in their skulls on the taxpayers’ dime.
  4. A PETA “pill bottle” in Indianapolis rattled Eli Lilly with socially distanced protests near pharmacies and the company’s headquarters that called the drug giant out for tormenting thousands of small animals in the bogus forced swim test, with not a single new medication to show for it.
  5. We’re challenging the University of Washington over its false claim that monkey experimenters were directly responsible for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine—when the truth is that tests at the notoriously cruel and wasteful Washington National Primate Research Center haven’t produced marketable vaccines for any diseases.