PETA recently notched a major victory in our global campaign to keep animals out of laboratories when Envigo, a company that supplies animals to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, was forced to release 4,000 beagles from its facility for adoption!
A landmark 2021 PETA exposé revealed that famished, nursing mothers were willfully denied food and that uncredentialed workers cut puppies out of the abdomens of sedated dogs before euthanizing the mothers. More than 360 dead puppies were found among their live littermates and mothers. Some puppies had been inadvertently crushed to death in the cramped cages. We used our documentation to build a massive movement that led to first-of-its-kind state legislation in Virginia, action by federal regulators and the U.S. Department of Justice, and more.
PETA has led the movement to keep dogs, mice, primates, and other animals out of laboratories since 1981—when the groundbreaking Silver Spring monkeys case revealed tormented macaques in cramped, filthy cages whose spinal-cord nerves had been severed. This undercover exposé resulted in the first-ever search-and-seizure warrant for a laboratory, conviction of an animal experimenter on animal abuse charges, revocation of federal research funds because of cruelty to animals, and case concerning animals in laboratories to be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court!
Since then, PETA U.S. has closed laboratories, shut down experiments, and rescued many more animals from experimenters. The end of Envigo’s breeding operation was one of several recent wins:
- Unrelenting pressure from PETA entities and tens of thousands of supporters worldwide paid off when Air France, Kenya Airways, and EGYPTAIR joined other major airlines in no longer shipping monkeys to laboratories, where they’re mutilated, poisoned, starved, psychologically tormented, and killed.
- Animals won’t have chemicals applied to their skin or eyes, be forced to inhale toxic fumes, be infected with diseases, or be mutilated and killed after India’s National Medical Commission, following input from PETA India, recommended using non-animal teaching and training methods for its postgraduate pharmacology curriculum.
- Alerted by a concerned student, PETA India rescued nearly 160 rats and mice from being used in illegal experiments at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry. They had been crowded in boxes and fed contaminated food.
- Harmful, medically unnecessary testing and surgeries on live animals were banned at veterinary schools and industrial complexes in Pakistan’s federal capital—a landmark decision prompted by an urgent appeal from PETA.
Help PETA achieve even more victories for animals in laboratories by donating to our “Stop Animal Testing” Challenge today—every dollar will be doubled through October 31, up to our $500,000 goal!
