Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA has obtained records revealing that Johns Hopkins University—already infamous for animal-care failures and crude, cruel experiments—purchased 31 monkeys from the dungeon-like Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, the site of a PETA undercover investigation that revealed soul-crushing confinement, traumatic separation of baby monkeys from their mothers, and other abuse. Now, we’re turning up the heat on both facilities and demanding an end to federally funded primate torture.
  2. New records that PETA just obtained show that in 2019 alone, experimenter Elisabeth Murray used 72 monkeys in “column D” experiments that are known to cause pain—in addition to inflicting harm and psychological trauma on dozens more animals. Tens of thousands of kind people are joining our call for an end to her “fright night” tests.
  3. PETA is debunking monkey experimenters’ desperate attempts to mislead the public and showing taxpayers why the wasteful and notoriously cruel National Primate Research Centers must be shut down immediately.
  4. We’re staying active in the military’s war on animals: PETA staffers and U.S. military veterans Dr. Ingrid Taylor and Jonathan Stainback are slamming the shameful mutilation and killing of wildlife during the Cobra Gold multinational military exercises.
  5. A terrific letter from Samantha Suiter, PETA’s science education manager, encourages STEM curriculum company Project Lead The Way to replace archaic animal dissection with cutting-edge technology or realistic models.