Animals

5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

  1. PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell coauthored a peer-reviewed paper in the esteemed journal Drug Discovery Today, examining pharmaceutical companies’ use of the forced swim test and showing why this archaic, cruel experiment fails to identify new substances that could treat human depression.
  2. On the other side of the pond, acting icon Joanna Lumley is urging the president of the University of Bristol to stop traumatizing animals in the futile forced swim test.
  3. Taking a deadly U-turn, the U.K. government has confirmed that it will allow cosmetics ingredients to be tested on animals despite becoming the first country to ban such tests in 1998. Fortunately, PETA U.K. scientists are on the case—and they’re imploring members of Parliament to take action.
  4. Through a letter to the National Institutes of Health and a PETA ad in The Washington Post, famed primatologist Dr. Biruté Galdikas tells the feds to end Elisabeth Murray’s hideous and seemingly pointless fear-inducing experiments on monkeys. Meanwhile, PETA’s massive “spider” at the Washington Monument recently trolled the agency for failing to yank funding from the terrifying tests.
  5. More than 500 physicians have joined PETA’s call for STEM curriculum company Project Lead The Way to stop promoting crude animal dissection, pointing out that the company already offers non-animal teaching tools and that not a single U.S. medical school still uses animal dissection to train future doctors.