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5 Ways PETA Will Continue to Help Animals in Laboratories in the New Year

  1. We’re helping humans, promoting sound science, and striking down speciesism in every way we can, including by dispelling experimenters’ ridiculous claims of a “monkey shortage” and reminding everyone that there’s no reason the words “guinea pig” and “COVID-19 vaccine” should appear in the same headlines.
  2. We’re blowing the lid off primate prisons—exposing cruel captivity and hellish psychological experiments. PETA supporters recently descended on the National Institutes of Health, brandishing blown-up photos from video footage of Elisabeth Murray’s monkey fright tests and demanding an end to the torment—while PETA’s expert primatologist and monkey-masked protesters have called for the immediate, permanent closure of the dungeon-like Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Meanwhile, over 110,000 supporters of PETA’s entities in Europe are urging officials to take steps to end monkeys’ suffering at a massive laboratory in the Netherlands.
  3. We’re pushing Texas A&M University to shut down its awful canine muscular dystrophy laboratory and give all surviving individuals a chance at happiness. Brioche, a healthy golden retriever, is the latest dog to be released by the school and adopted after determined pressure from PETA and our supporters!
  4. We’re crying foul over bird abuse in Louisiana State University (LSU) laboratories. Our action alert and demonstrations are showing the taxpaying public that experimenter Christine Lattin traps sparrows in their natural homes, pumps them with sex hormones, terrifies them, and ultimately kills them. Now, we’re suing LSU over its failure to disclose records related to these vile experiments.
  5. We’re keeping universities and pharmaceutical giants in hot water over their refusal to ban the cruel and bogus forced swim test. Actor and University of Bristol alumnus Will Poulter has joined PETA U.K.’s campaign asking his alma mater to pull the plug, while socially distanced PETA supporters in mouse masks scurried to the home of Lilly’s chief scientific officer to show him that there’s nothing to be learned from dropping small animals into inescapable beakers of water.