5 Ways PETA Is Helping Animals in Laboratories This Week

Discover how PETA is exposing cruelty and holding experimenters accountable:

1. Huge victory! After nearly a year of determined pressure from PETA, including demonstrations featuring a “drowning mouse” and a “dancing CrapStick,” pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has agreed to ban the cruel and widely discredited forced swim test.

2. We released footage revealing beagles’ misery at a massive breeding facility in Virginia, where the animals were given contaminated food, denied veterinary care, and forced to live in their own waste before being sold to experimenters—and we’re now urging federal agencies to cut ties with the hellish mill.

3. Our cute public service announcement featuring an adorable “experimenting mouse” ran in Pittsburgh and Detroit this week, taking on experimenters who’ve addicted mice to cocaine, allowed them to drown in flooded cages or die of dehydration, or amputated their toes without painkillers.

4. We’re calling out National Institute of Mental Health bigwigs for sending mixed messages about animal tests and demanding that the agency stop wasting taxpayer funds on them.

5. For more inspiring behind-the-scenes details about our efforts to stop animal experiments of all types, listen to PETA’s latest town hall meeting.