petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-01--COVID-19 Is a Sign to Go Vegan Today—Here’s How

• Many restaurants offer tasty vegan burgers .
At Carl ’ s Jr. locations , the Beyond Famous Star Burger can be made vegan by ordering it without cheese or mayo .
UNO Pizzeria & Grill offers a Beyond Burger , too .
At Johnny Rockets , go for the Gardein black bean burger .
Red Robin offers a vegan burger patty , too—order it on a ciabatta bun , rustic Italian bread , or a lettuce wrap and ask for no cheese or aioli sauce .
• Asian cuisines offer a wide variety of choices for hungry vegans !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ tofu in any of their entrées to create a vegan dish , and many feature a large selection of vegan meats .
Panda Express offers eggplant tofu , spring rolls , brown and white rice , and chow mein , which are all vegan .
At Noodles & Company , the Japanese Pan Noodles and Spicy Peanut Sauté are vegan and the Spicy Korean Beef Noodles can be made vegan if you ask for tofu instead of beef .
• Pizza joints across the country are dishing out delicious vegan pizza .
Pieology @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chicken , and Italian sausage .
Blaze Pizza offers vegan cheese and vegan Spicy Chorizo .
The pizza sauce and dough at Little Caesars and Papa John ’ s are vegan , too—simply skip the cheese and load up on veggies to make an ultimate vegan pizza .
Pizza Hut uses vegan marinara sauce , and its Thin ‘ N Crispy Pizza crusts are vegan as well .
Other chains such as Mellow Mushroom and MOD Pizza also offer vegan cheese .
• Many pasta dishes at Italian-American restaurants can be made vegan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such as marinara and skipping the cheese .
Olive Garden has lots of options—the breadsticks and minestrone soup are vegan , as are pasta dishes such as angel hair , fettuccine , rigatoni , small shells , and spaghetti topped with marinara sauce .
At Buca di Beppo , the bruschetta is a great vegan appetizer if you hold the cheese .
For your entrée , create your own pasta dish and top it with either marinara or the garlic olive oil sauce .
At Carrabba ’ s Italian Grill , go for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Linguine Positano without the chicken .
• It ’ s easy to order vegan food at Mexican-inspired restaurants .
Chipotle offers Sofritas—tofu braised with peppers and spices—which you can order in a bowl , burrito , or taco or on a salad .
At Taco Bell , you can order items fresco-style ( pico de gallo is used instead of cheese or sour cream ) and sub beans for meat .
Del Taco offers Beyond Meat in both tacos and burritos—try the Beyond Avocado Taco .
All tacos , fajitas , salads , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Grill can be made vegan by substituting tofu for meat and skipping the cheese .
• At many ballparks and other sports stadiums , you can now find a wide range of winning vegan dishes , including Beyond Burgers , vegan tacos , and veggie dogs .
Many fan-favorite snacks are typically vegan , too , such as pretzels , cotton candy , Cracker Jack , nachos without cheese , and popcorn made with veggie oil instead of butter .
• Seafood restaurants commonly offer pasta dishes that can be made vegan .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ made with garlic and olive oil and add any veggies that the kitchen has on hand .
Red Lobster ’ s tempting Dragon Broccoli—drizzled with a spicy and sweet sauce and topped with fried chili peppers is vegan .
Pair it with a plain baked potato , rice pilaf , or French fries .

Overhaul your shopping list by adding a few vegan meats and nondairy delights. Here are some of the products that make our mouths water the most! Best of all, many of these can be found at grocery stores in your neighborhood.
A few of our favorites are Daiya vegan cheeses, Gardein vegan meats, Earth Balance vegan butters, and Oatly oatmilks!
*Check the box next to each product to add it to your virtual list. E-mail the list to yourself for easy viewing on your phone or for printing.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-01--PETA Urges You to Put Down That Rancid, Sour Bodily Fluid Right Now

Do you know how dairy companies make butter ?
Well , back in the olden days , people—who probably hadn ’ t bathed in 10 years and believed in slavery—had the bright idea to shake milk inside bags made of animal skin until it turned into a putrid spread ( with no refrigeration technology in sight ) .
It ’ s made just as “ deliciously ” today—but on a mass scale of animal abuse and revulsion .
It all starts with stealing thousands of gallons of udder liquid from mother cows and shipping it to a factory .
Then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and—similar to the colonists of yesteryear who shook it inside animal carcasses—use machines to separate good ol ’ artery-clogging fat from the raw liquid .
Thick , goopy , fatty milk is then pasteurized , aged , and drained from the sour milk that accumulated in the process .
Afterward , workers throw the fat into an industrial-size churning machine .
This causes the fat molecules to clump together so that people can finally spread the oleaginous mess while pondering , “ Why the hell do I eat this ?
” But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ logs or mashing it into plastic containers , workers flavor it with buckets of salt .
Yes , they have to season butter—perhaps to help consumers forget that they ’ re willingly putting this nasty , fatty substance into their bodies .
Butter-eaters , why do you hate moms so much ?
Cows used for their milk are artificially inseminated , and their babies are torn away from them shortly after they ’ re born .
The cruel dairy industry profits from their suffering .
Cows have best homies and hold grudges against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gentle giants mourn the deaths of loved ones , sometimes shedding tears over their loss .
The mother/calf bond is particularly strong , and there are countless reports of mother cows who ’ ve continued to call and search frantically for their babies after they ’ ve been taken away and sold to veal or beef farms .
Going vegan is the easiest way to help stop this cycle and keep mother cows with their young .
If at any point during this lovely lesson on butter , you thought , “ You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eat the processed fat stolen from a mother cow , ” you ’ re in luck !
There are dozens of vegan options on the market that you won ’ t believe aren ’ t animal butter .
Or be your best , whole-foods-eating self and swap butter for vegan staples like cashews , corn , polenta , and cauliflower .
Going shopping ?
Check out these sticks and spreads available in stores :

Do you know how dairy companies make butter?
Well, back in the olden days, people—who probably hadn’t bathed in 10 years and believed in slavery—had the bright idea to shake milk inside bags made of animal skin until it turned into a putrid spread (with no refrigeration technology in sight).
Don’t let dairy butter packed with saturated fat weigh you down. Live your best life with these creamy, whole-foods #vegan butters! https://t.co/aNhG24SHcg — PETA (@peta) April 25, 2020
It’s made just as “deliciously” today—but on a mass scale of animal abuse and revulsion.
It all starts with stealing thousands of gallons of udder liquid from mother cows and shipping it to a factory.
Then, workers take that “boob juice” and—similar to the colonists of yesteryear who shook it inside animal carcasses—use machines to separate good ol’ artery-clogging fat from the raw liquid.
Churn That Sour, Stolen Boob Juice
Thick, goopy, fatty milk is then pasteurized, aged, and drained from the sour milk that accumulated in the process. Afterward, workers throw the fat into an industrial-size churning machine. This causes the fat molecules to clump together so that people can finally spread the oleaginous mess while pondering, “Why the hell do I eat this?”
But before molding the fatty cream into thick logs or mashing it into plastic containers, workers flavor it with buckets of salt. Yes, they have to season butter—perhaps to help consumers forget that they’re willingly putting this nasty, fatty substance into their bodies.
Butter-eaters, why do you hate moms so much?
Cows used for their milk are artificially inseminated, and their babies are torn away from them shortly after they’re born. The cruel dairy industry profits from their suffering.
Cows have best homies and hold grudges against mean humans and other animals. These gentle giants mourn the deaths of loved ones, sometimes shedding tears over their loss. The mother/calf bond is particularly strong, and there are countless reports of mother cows who’ve continued to call and search frantically for their babies after they’ve been taken away and sold to veal or beef farms.
Going vegan is the easiest way to help stop this cycle and keep mother cows with their young.
If at any point during this lovely lesson on butter, you thought, “You know, maybe I shouldn’t eat the processed fat stolen from a mother cow,” you’re in luck! There are dozens of vegan options on the market that you won’t believe aren’t animal butter. Or be your best, whole-foods-eating self and swap butter for vegan staples like cashews, corn, polenta, and cauliflower.
Going shopping? Check out these sticks and spreads available in stores:


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-03--PETA Attacks Slaughterhouse Openings With Full-Page Ad Appeal to Consumers

Slamming President Trump ’ s order for slaughterhouses to remain open , causing millions of animals to be killed even as workers suffer from COVID-19 , PETA is running this ad in The Washington Post on Sunday , May 3 , proclaiming , “ America : It ’ s Time to Move Away From Meat.
” The ad makes the point that U.S. factory farms and slaughterhouses are as filthy as China ’ s “ wet markets , ” their floors covered with blood , urine , feces , and offal—and that a meat shortage doesn ’ t mean a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meat .
Consuming it is linked to heart disease , cancer , strokes , high blood pressure , diabetes , and obesity .
“ Eat As if Everyone ’ s Life Depends on It , Because It Does , ” reads the ad .
The novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese wet market where live and dead animals were sold for human consumption , swine flu began on a U.S. factory farm , and other influenza viruses have been traced to chickens .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that approximately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affecting humans originated in other animals .
Reducing animals—with all their personality and emotions—to objects to be abused and killed for food is what got us into this mess in the first place .
Cows , chickens , pigs , turkeys , sheep , and other animals are living , feeling , thinking beings who value their lives .
Pigs bond with humans , love to cuddle , and play games .
Like many other animals , cows have best friends .
Chickens are caring mothers—a hen “ talks ” to her chicks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them to recognize her voice in a flock .
The vegan food supply is strong , so the only thing at risk when slaughterhouses close is the meat industry ’ s bottom line .
PETA stands ready to help—with free vegan starter kits , mentor services , and recipes to aid people in preventing the next pandemic by going vegan .

Slamming President Trump’s order for slaughterhouses to remain open, causing millions of animals to be killed even as workers suffer from COVID-19, PETA is running this ad in The Washington Post on Sunday, May 3, proclaiming, “America: It’s Time to Move Away From Meat.”
The ad makes the point that U.S. factory farms and slaughterhouses are as filthy as China’s “wet markets,” their floors covered with blood, urine, feces, and offal—and that a meat shortage doesn’t mean a food shortage, because no one needs meat. Consuming it is linked to heart disease, cancer, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
“Eat As if Everyone’s Life Depends on It, Because It Does,” reads the ad.
The novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese wet market where live and dead animals were sold for human consumption, swine flu began on a U.S. factory farm, and other influenza viruses have been traced to chickens. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that approximately 75% of recently emerged infectious diseases affecting humans originated in other animals.
Reducing animals—with all their personality and emotions—to objects to be abused and killed for food is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys, sheep, and other animals are living, feeling, thinking beings who value their lives. Pigs bond with humans, love to cuddle, and play games. Like many other animals, cows have best friends. Chickens are caring mothers—a hen “talks” to her chicks before they’ve hatched to teach them to recognize her voice in a flock.
The vegan food supply is strong, so the only thing at risk when slaughterhouses close is the meat industry’s bottom line.
PETA stands ready to help—with free vegan starter kits and recipes to aid people in preventing the next pandemic by going vegan.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-04--PETA Demands Eli Lilly Explain Forced Swim Test at Annual Meeting

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is about to face some tough questions at its upcoming annual meeting .
How do we know ?
Because the company has been caught conducting a cruel and useless test on animals , and PETA is a shareholder .
What Is Eli Lilly Doing to Mice and Other Small Animals ?
Between 1993 and 2019 , Eli Lilly employees published at least 20 papers and submitted at least 11 patent applications describing the use of the notorious forced swim test .
In the widely discredited test , mice and other small animals are placed in inescapable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re made to swim in order to keep from drowning , purportedly to shed light on the effectiveness of antidepressant medications .
Watch this quick video to learn more : At least 3,400 small animals were subjected to this torment by Eli Lilly employees .
Yet the test did not reliably predict the success of a single medication in humans .
What Is PETA Asking Eli Lilly to Do ?
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic , Eli Lilly ’ s annual meeting is going virtual this year .
But that ’ s not stopping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the company to allow us to submit a proposal .
As permitted by regulations , we ’ ve asked Eli Lilly to assess the effectiveness of the forced swim test , then report its findings to shareholders .
That ’ s because we know the company will have to admit that the forced swim test doesn ’ t accurately predict whether a drug will work as a human antidepressant .
It yields positive results for compounds that aren ’ t prescribed as human antidepressants—such as caffeine—and negative results for compounds that are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Prozac , hasn ’ t yielded consistent results when studied in forced swim tests .
If Eli Lilly refuses to join other industry leaders that have made the commitment never to use the forced swim test again , then it should have to explain to its shareholders why it thinks terrifying and nearly drowning a mouse is a good idea .
While the fear of drowning is very real for the animals involved in the forced swim test , the experience in no way represents the enduring and multidimensional nature of depression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s biggest competitors have banned this atrocity at PETA ’ s request , it ’ s baffling that it refuses to acknowledge that it ’ s defending archaic practices .
Help Stop Animals From Suffering in the Forced Swim Test—Join the Effort to End It The forced swim test is bad science .
Such archaic experiments do little more than terrify animals and delay the development of new , human-relevant treatments .
And other pharma giants agree .
After discussions with PETA , pharmaceutical companies including Bayer , AstraZeneca , Novo Nordisk A/S @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roche , Boehringer Ingelheim , Pfizer , Bristol-Myers Squibb , and Sage Therapeutics all announced that they would no longer conduct or fund this cruel test .
More than 325,000 members of the public have contacted Eli Lilly to request a ban on the use , funding , or commissioning of the test—will you join them ?
Rats and mice used in experiments need your support .

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is about to face some tough questions at its upcoming annual meeting. How do we know? Because the company has been caught conducting a cruel and useless test on animals, and PETA is a shareholder.
What Is Eli Lilly Doing to Mice and Other Small Animals?
Between 1993 and 2019, Eli Lilly employees published at least 20 papers and submitted at least 11 patent applications describing the use of the notorious forced swim test.
In the widely discredited test, mice and other small animals are placed in inescapable beakers filled with water. They’re made to swim in order to keep from drowning, purportedly to shed light on the effectiveness of antidepressant medications.
Watch this quick video to learn more:
At least 3,400 small animals were subjected to this torment by Eli Lilly employees. Yet the test did not reliably predict the success of a single medication in humans.
What Is PETA Asking Eli Lilly to Do?
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Eli Lilly’s annual meeting is going virtual this year. But that’s not stopping PETA, which owns just enough stock in the company to allow us to submit a proposal. As permitted by regulations, we’ve asked Eli Lilly to assess the effectiveness of the forced swim test, then report its findings to shareholders.
That’s because we know the company will have to admit that the forced swim test doesn’t accurately predict whether a drug will work as a human antidepressant. It yields positive results for compounds that aren’t prescribed as human antidepressants—such as caffeine—and negative results for compounds that are. Even Eli Lilly’s bestseller, Prozac, hasn’t yielded consistent results when studied in forced swim tests.
If Eli Lilly refuses to join other industry leaders that have made the commitment never to use the forced swim test again, then it should have to explain to its shareholders why it thinks terrifying and nearly drowning a mouse is a good idea.
While the fear of drowning is very real for the animals involved in the forced swim test, the experience in no way represents the enduring and multidimensional nature of depression. When nine of Eli Lilly’s biggest competitors have banned this atrocity at PETA’s request, it’s baffling that it refuses to acknowledge that it’s defending archaic practices. —PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell
Help Stop Animals From Suffering in the Forced Swim Test—Join the Effort to End It
The forced swim test is bad science. Such archaic experiments do little more than terrify animals and delay the development of new, human-relevant treatments. And other pharma giants agree.
After discussions with PETA, pharmaceutical companies including Bayer, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk A/S, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Roche, Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Sage Therapeutics all announced that they would no longer conduct or fund this cruel test.
More than 325,000 members of the public have contacted Eli Lilly to request a ban on the use, funding, or commissioning of the test—will you join them? Rats and mice used in experiments need your support.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--Will the FDA Nix Requirement For Animal Testing? PETA Urges New Precedent Amid COVID-19

Agency Earns Kudos for Skipping Animal Tests in Search for Coronavirus Therapies—and Receives a Plea to Make Non-Animal Research the New Normal Washington – In response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ’ s ( FDA ) decision to allow companies to skip required tests on animals and head straight to human trials in the search for COVID-19 therapies , PETA sent a letter to the agency applauding the move and urging it to move away from animal experiments completely .
“ The novel coronavirus has thrown the inadequacy of cruel , costly , misleading , and time-consuming animal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PETA Regulatory Testing Department Science Adviser Jeffrey Brown .
“ PETA is urging the FDA not to revert to the wasteful status quo and to take this opportunity to prioritize human-relevant , non-animal research methods only.
” Of all new medications that test safe and effective in animals , 95 % fail in human clinical trials .
PETA ’ s Research Modernization Deal provides a detailed strategy for replacing the use of animals in experiments with superior , humane scientific research , which would save the lives of millions of animals every year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from diseases .
The group ’ s letter to the FDA is available here .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .

Agency Earns Kudos for Skipping Animal Tests in Search for Coronavirus Therapies—and Receives a Plea to Make Non-Animal Research the New Normal
For Immediate Release:
May 5, 2020
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Washington – In response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to allow companies to skip required tests on animals and head straight to human trials in the search for COVID-19 therapies, PETA sent a letter to the agency applauding the move and urging it to move away from animal experiments completely.
“The novel coronavirus has thrown the inadequacy of cruel, costly, misleading, and time-consuming animal experiments into sharp relief,” says PETA Regulatory Testing Department Science Adviser Jeffrey Brown. “PETA is urging the FDA not to revert to the wasteful status quo and to take this opportunity to prioritize human-relevant, non-animal research methods only.”
Of all new medications that test safe and effective in animals, 95% fail in human clinical trials. PETA’s Research Modernization Deal provides a detailed strategy for replacing the use of animals in experiments with superior, humane scientific research, which would save the lives of millions of animals every year and accelerate drug development for humans suffering from diseases.
The group’s letter to the FDA is available here. For more information, please visit PETA.org.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--Mulberry Bans Exotic Skins, Prevents Future Pandemics—Thanks to PETA U.K.

Following years of urging by PETA – and as conservation experts warn that the trade in exotic skins risks fuelling the spread of diseases like COVID-19 – luxury fashion brand Mulberry has confirmed a ban on exotic skins in all its future collections .
The spring/summer 2020 season marks the brand ’ s first-ever departure from using the skins of alligators , crocodiles , ostriches , lizards , or snakes in its designs .
Mulberry already has a fur-free policy .
The COVID-19 outbreak is believed to have originated in a Chinese market where wild and exotic animals , both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human consumption .
The intensive farming of exotic animals for both their flesh and their skin poses a similar risk of animal-to-human transmission of newly evolved viruses .
Exotic-animal farms are breeding grounds for pathogens and increase the risk of future pandemics .
Behind every handbag or wallet made with exotic skins is an animal who suffered tremendously .
PETA and our affiliates have released several exposés of the exotic skins industry .
Alligators are kept in fetid water inside dank , dark sheds before their necks are hacked open and metal rods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempt to scramble their brains , often while they ’ re fully conscious .
One-year-old ostriches are transported by lorry to abattoirs , where workers turn them upside down in a stunner , slit their throats , and rip their feathers out .
And snakes are commonly nailed to trees before their bodies are cut open from one end to the other as they ’ re skinned alive .
Help PETA Secure More Victories for Animals Mulberry ’ s decision to ban these cruelly obtained materials is a sign of the times .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Diane von Furstenberg , Paul Smith , Victoria Beckham , Vivienne Westwood , and others in making the compassionate decision to ban exotic skins from all its designs .
Join PETA in calling on LVMH , which owns Louis Vuitton , to stop selling items made with exotic skins and fur , too .
Call On LVMH to Drop Exotic Skins and Fur

Following years of urging by PETA – and as conservation experts warn that the trade in exotic skins risks fuelling the spread of diseases like COVID-19 – luxury fashion brand Mulberry has confirmed a ban on exotic skins in all its future collections.
The spring/summer 2020 season marks the brand’s first-ever departure from using the skins of alligators, crocodiles, ostriches, lizards, or snakes in its designs. Mulberry already has a fur-free policy.
“[W]e have spent a lot of time determining and then continually reviewing our sustainability metrics and targets …. At an early stage of this process we decided not to use exotics in our collections and this remains our position.” – Rosie Wollacott, Group Sustainability Manager, Mulberry
Exotic Skins and COVID-19
The COVID-19 outbreak is believed to have originated in a Chinese market where wild and exotic animals, both alive and dead, were sold for human consumption. The intensive farming of exotic animals for both their flesh and their skin poses a similar risk of animal-to-human transmission of newly evolved viruses. Exotic-animal farms are breeding grounds for pathogens and increase the risk of future pandemics.
Cruelty Behind Exotic Skin Handbags
Behind every handbag or wallet made with exotic skins is an animal who suffered tremendously. PETA and our affiliates have released several exposés of the exotic skins industry.
Alligators are kept in fetid water inside dank, dark sheds before their necks are hacked open and metal rods are shoved into their heads in an attempt to scramble their brains, often while they’re fully conscious.
One-year-old ostriches are transported by lorry to abattoirs, where workers turn them upside down in a stunner, slit their throats, and rip their feathers out. And snakes are commonly nailed to trees before their bodies are cut open from one end to the other as they’re skinned alive.
Help PETA Secure More Victories for Animals
Mulberry’s decision to ban these cruelly obtained materials is a sign of the times. The British luxury brand joins Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, Paul Smith, Victoria Beckham, Vivienne Westwood, and others in making the compassionate decision to ban exotic skins from all its designs.
Join PETA in calling on LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, to stop selling items made with exotic skins and fur, too.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--COVID-19 Proves We Can’t Waste Time on Animal Tests—Help PETA End Them

With over 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. alone , we need effective treatments and vaccines .
We can ’ t waste time on ineffective animal testing—and lucky for us and the whole world , the U.S. government agrees .
In a watershed moment in history , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has responded to the pandemic by prioritizing human clinical trials over animal testing .
Now PETA is asking the FDA to seize this opportunity to stop requiring cruel , wasteful animal tests for all drugs—not just treatments for COVID-19 .
Despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the FDA has insisted for decades that there is no way to bring a new drug to human clinical trials without first testing it on thousands of animals .
But in the face of pressure to develop medicines to prevent or treat COVID-19 quickly and safely , the FDA has taken actions proving that this is not the case .
Last month , for the first time in history , both the FDA and the U.S. National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) greenlighted a landmark human clinical trial of a vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Companies are usually required to spend years putting animals through the agony of new product tests before human clinical trials are allowed to begin , even though those animal tests don ’ t predict whether a drug will work in humans .
But in this case , the company started developing a COVID-19 vaccine in January , and by March , the FDA and NIH both agreed : It ’ s time to see if this vaccine is effective in humans .
And that ’ s just the tip of the iceberg—there are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the planning stages .
Ninety-five percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans .
Skipping irrelevant animal tests avoids the delay in bringing lifesaving drugs to market and allows resources to be focused instead on human-relevant , non-animal test methods .
It also avoids the possibility of abandoning a drug that might save human lives just because it doesn ’ t work in animals !
The writing is on the wall : Animal tests are a barrier to getting quick , safe , and effective medicines and vaccines for humans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on animals and asking human volunteers to give blood have sped up access to potentially lifesaving treatments for COVID-19 .
The most readily available treatment for COVID-19 and other diseases—called convalescent plasma—comes directly from humans who have recovered from the illness .
This treatment doesn ’ t use a single animal—just the antibodies made by the human immune system to fight off infection .
The FDA has already allowed several people to receive convalescent plasma as part of its treatment for COVID-19 and is expanding this effort .
In all animal tests , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and personalities—are treated as if they were inanimate laboratory equipment .
They ’ re burned , mutilated , restrained , and pumped full of toxic chemicals and deadly pathogens .
We can ’ t imagine the terror that every single animal trapped in a laboratory must feel day in and day out .
The FDA has been saying for years that the only way to guarantee that new medicines are developed quickly is to prioritize human-relevant testing approaches instead of relying on traditional animal testing .
In its 2017 Predictive Toxicology Roadmap @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology—not animal tests—is the key to better predicting the safety and effectiveness of a medicine for humans .
Now it ’ s time for the agency to put these words into action .
Here ’ s how to help .
Everyone can help animals by urging the FDA not to limit its expansion of human clinical trials to the development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines but instead to apply it to all new drugs and medical treatments in the future and not waste any more time on animal testing .
Recovered from COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FDA is asking people who have recovered from this illness to consider donating blood for use in these clinical trials .
A single donation can treat up to four ill people—no animals required .
Find Out How to Donate Blood

With over 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. alone, we need effective treatments and vaccines. We can’t waste time on ineffective animal testing—and lucky for us and the whole world, the U.S. government agrees.
© iStock.com/Svetlana Pazhiltseva
In a watershed moment in history, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has responded to the pandemic by prioritizing human clinical trials over animal testing. Now PETA is asking the FDA to seize this opportunity to stop requiring cruel, wasteful animal tests for all drugs—not just treatments for COVID-19.
Despite the existence of human-relevant, non-animal tests, the FDA has insisted for decades that there is no way to bring a new drug to human clinical trials without first testing it on thousands of animals. But in the face of pressure to develop medicines to prevent or treat COVID-19 quickly and safely, the FDA has taken actions proving that this is not the case.
Last month, for the first time in history, both the FDA and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) greenlighted a landmark human clinical trial of a vaccine without first requiring extensive animal tests. Companies are usually required to spend years putting animals through the agony of new product tests before human clinical trials are allowed to begin, even though those animal tests don’t predict whether a drug will work in humans.
But in this case, the company started developing a COVID-19 vaccine in January, and by March, the FDA and NIH both agreed: It’s time to see if this vaccine is effective in humans. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg—there are many similar trials up and running and in the planning stages.
Ninety-five percent of drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans. Skipping irrelevant animal tests avoids the delay in bringing lifesaving drugs to market and allows resources to be focused instead on human-relevant, non-animal test methods. It also avoids the possibility of abandoning a drug that might save human lives just because it doesn’t work in animals!
The writing is on the wall: Animal tests are a barrier to getting quick, safe, and effective medicines and vaccines for humans onto the market.
Avoiding misleading tests on animals and asking human volunteers to give blood have sped up access to potentially lifesaving treatments for COVID-19. The most readily available treatment for COVID-19 and other diseases—called convalescent plasma—comes directly from humans who have recovered from the illness.
This treatment doesn’t use a single animal—just the antibodies made by the human immune system to fight off infection. The FDA has already allowed several people to receive convalescent plasma as part of its treatment for COVID-19 and is expanding this effort.
In all animal tests, the animals—with their complex emotions, sensitivities, and personalities—are treated as if they were inanimate laboratory equipment. They’re burned, mutilated, restrained, and pumped full of toxic chemicals and deadly pathogens. We can’t imagine the terror that every single animal trapped in a laboratory must feel day in and day out.
The FDA has been saying for years that the only way to guarantee that new medicines are developed quickly is to prioritize human-relevant testing approaches instead of relying on traditional animal testing. In its 2017 Predictive Toxicology Roadmap, it noted that new, human-relevant technology—not animal tests—is the key to better predicting the safety and effectiveness of a medicine for humans.
Now it’s time for the agency to put these words into action. Here’s how to help.
Everyone can help animals by urging the FDA not to limit its expansion of human clinical trials to the development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines but instead to apply it to all new drugs and medical treatments in the future and not waste any more time on animal testing.
Recovered from COVID-19 and want to help animals?
The FDA is asking people who have recovered from this illness to consider donating blood for use in these clinical trials. A single donation can treat up to four ill people—no animals required.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--Anjelica Huston Joins PETA’s Call for NIH to Stop Terrifying Monkeys

When PETA showed Hollywood A-lister Anjelica Huston footage from NIH ’ s horrific and wasteful “ monkey fright ” experiments , she knew that she had to take action .
The PETA honorary director wrote a letter to NIH Director Francis Collins , asking him to stop funding these cruel experiments and pointing out that in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic , it ’ s more important than ever to ensure that our country is making smart scientific and fiscal decisions .
Pointing out that our tax dollars could be better spent combating the shortage of basic medical supplies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Katherine Roe writes that Elisabeth Murray ’ s monkey fright experiments are not only irrelevant to humans but also shockingly cruel .
With toilet paper in high demand during the COVID-19 lockdown , PETA sent members of Congress each a specialty roll with the message “ $ 36 Million Down the Toilet for NIH Monkey Fright Experiments .
Wipe It Out !
” Driving cars emblazoned with the message “ End Monkey Fright Tests !
” a caravan of PETA protesters honked their horns outside the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Francis Collins , and the home of government monkey experimenter Elisabeth Murray .
Neighbors who were homebound as a result of COVID-19 came out to observe the ruckus .
PETA Shares an Open Letter to NIH Officials From Monkeys Suffering in Murray ’ s Experiments The directors of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health complained of the stress and anxiety of the COVID-19 lockdown .
Twenty-three monkeys trapped in Elisabeth Murray ’ s laboratory—who experience the stress and frustration of confinement and isolation every day—wrote them a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to avoid spreading the highly contagious coronavirus and spent more time online , PETA launched an ad blitz on social media focused on Elisabeth Murray ’ s cruel and wasteful experiments .
Even as the world awaits cures for deadly diseases , NIH squanders research money by sucking out parts of monkeys ’ brains and then scaring them with fake “ snakes ” and “ spiders.
” Government Experimenter Fears Images From Cruel Lab Will Get Into ‘ Wrong Hands ’ In an interview uncovered by PETA , experimenter Elisabeth Murray let it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taxpayers who care about animals—and paid for her experiments—to see what happens to vulnerable monkeys in her laboratory , saying , “ You know , to be honest with you , we don ’ t usually take photos of that sort of thing because we are all afraid they ’ ll fall into the wrong hands.
” Brandishing blown-up images of monkeys used and abused in Elisabeth Murray ’ s experiments , PETA protesters descended on the Department of Health & Human Services building to demand an end to the tests .
Neuroscientist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Plug on Monkey Fright Experiments In a letter to National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) Director Francis Collins and Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) Secretary Alex Azar , PETA scientist Katherine Roe made the scientific and ethical argument for pulling the plug on Elisabeth Murray ’ s “ monkey fright ” experiments .
PETA ’ s factsheet on the experiments provides a description of what Murray does to monkeys in her laboratory and why the experiments are catastrophically flawed .
After receiving 43 hours of never-before-seen video @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carried out at the National Institutes of Health by government experimenter Elisabeth Murray , PETA publicized footage from the twisted tests on its website .
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Funded by millions in taxpayer dollars, National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray sucks out or burns parts of monkeys’ brains, confines the animals to a metal box, and then terrorizes them with rubber snakes and spiders. PETA is waging a campaign to end these experiments—and you can help.
For more detailed information about the horrors that monkeys in Murray’s laboratory endure, click here.
Rooting for Rocket Raccoon? Help Guard the Galaxy’s Other Vivisection Victims, PETA’s ‘Monkey’ Urges Cosplayers
June 16, 2023
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, viewers learn how a young Rocket Raccoon escaped his tormentor, the High Evolutionary—but millions of real animals imprisoned in laboratories are far less lucky. Representing his namesake and the dozens of other macaques now languishing in the laboratory of National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray, Beamish the “monkey” urged attendees of Awesome Con in Washington, D.C., to use their greatest superpower—their voice—to speak up for animals like Rocket.
Making Waves in the Sunshine State: ‘Monkey’ Sheds Light on Misery in Elisabeth Murray’s Laboratory
May 12, 2023
A dozen PETA supporters—including one dressed as Beamish, a rhesus macaque imprisoned in the government laboratory of serial monkey tormentor Elisabeth Murray—lined the sidewalk outside The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology in Jupiter, Florida, to protest against Murray’s grisly fright experiments. Inside, Murray spoke at the annual meeting of the Florida Consortium on the Neurobiology of Cognition. The unmissable demonstration grabbed the attention of passing drivers and students on scooters, who honked their horns and rang their bells, respectively, in support.
Beamish the ‘Monkey’ Crashes Tormentor’s Talk at Vanderbilt University
March 22, 2023
A troop of protesters, including Beamish the “monkey,” rallied at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, to expose the pain and trauma that primates endure in the laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray, who was scheduled to give a talk in a building nearby. Beamish’s real-life namesake has been a prisoner of Murray’s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health since 2010.
NIH Pumps Millions of Dollars Into Scofflaw Supplier of Monkeys to Murray’s Laboratory
January 5, 2023
Monkey supplier Alpha Genesis Inc. is so hopelessly incapable of following basic animal welfare laws that the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined it $12,600 in 2017 and issued it an official warning just last month. The company’s scofflaw status, however, doesn’t appear to worry the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which pays it millions each year to fill the laboratory cages of monkey torturers such as Elisabeth Murray. While the company basks in profits snatched from the pockets of unsuspecting taxpayers, monkeys at its facilities have died from trauma, neglect, and freezing temperatures. PETA is calling on NIH to cancel its $17 million in contracts with the notorious primate dealer.
Beamish on the Brain: At Neuroscience Conference, PETA Puts Tortured Monkey’s Story Front and Center
November 14, 2022
As thousands of attendees—many of them monkey experimenters, including Elisabeth Murray herself—streamed into the San Diego Convention Center for the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, PETA circled the building with a mobile billboard featuring distressing footage of Beamish, a monkey currently imprisoned in Murray’s laboratory. Meanwhile, activists distributed leaflets spotlighting the pointless suffering that Beamish and thousands of other monkeys endure in excruciating and deadly brain experiments every year.
Vomiting, Dehydration, and Extreme Weight Loss: Federal Records Expose Agony for More Monkeys in Murray’s Lab
October 27, 2022
Fittingly named after silent film stars, monkeys Chaplin, Chaney, and Lloyd—along with their fellow prisoners Hightop, Skyline, and Spitler—were silenced and their autonomy was stripped away in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory. The six monkeys were deprived of water, restrained via a headpost implanted in their skull, and forced to watch videos of moving animated shapes, “earning” scant droplets of juice only if they looked at certain points on the screen. Read more about the years of suffering that these monkeys endured—and that some are still enduring—for Murray’s ludicrous experiments.
Search Party Blankets Bethesda With ‘MISSING’ Posters in Pursuit of Experimenter’s Moral Compass
August 14, 2022
Elisabeth Murray’s penchant for mutilating and terrorizing monkeys in her laboratory makes it clear that she has lost her sense of moral direction. Concerned community members aided the search for it by plastering “MISSING” posters throughout downtown Bethesda, Maryland, and the area surrounding her condominium community.
PETA’s Roving ‘Rhesus Macaque’ Calls On Metro Riders to Help Put the Brakes on Cruelty
August 11, 2022
Next stop: animal liberation! PETA’s “monkey” mascot Beamish hopped aboard the Metro in Washington, D.C., to share the heart-rending story of his real-life namesake with morning commuters, many of whom were appalled to learn that he was languishing in solitary confinement in a dismal NIH laboratory at that very moment.
Wake-Up Call on Wheels: PETA Broadcasts Mobile Message in Elisabeth Murray’s Neighborhood
July 28, 2022
Blasting footage of Beamish—one of the hundreds of monkeys Elisabeth Murray has cut open, mutilated, and terrorized in her laboratory—PETA’s mobile billboard rolled up in front of Murray’s condominium complex to warn her neighbors of the monkey tormenter in their midst.
Animal Advocates Festoon Murray’s Neighborhood With Flyposters
June 25, 2022
Swimming, playing, roaming outdoors—rhesus macaques delight in many of the same activities that humans do. But while the sunny June days lure humans outside, monkeys in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory remain imprisoned in a sterile fluorescent-lit room, where many of them have been unable to glimpse the outdoors for over a decade. Seeking to grab the attention of cyclists and walkers relishing the warm weather—including perhaps Murray herself—PETA supporters peppered the path near her condo complex with reminders of the soul-crushing torment experienced by monkeys in her laboratory.
‘Monkey’ Turns Heads at D.C.’s Awesome Con
June 4, 2022
Even amid a sea of cosplayers, PETA’s “monkey” mascot Beamish can’t be missed. The plucky primate waved to crowds entering the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to attend Awesome Con—Washington, D.C.’s comic convention—as a human sidekick doled out leaflets telling his heart-wrenching story to the curious onlookers.
Full-Page Washington Times Ad Spotlights Nick Nack’s Heart-Wrenching Story
May 18, 2022
Years of isolation, painful surgeries, and worthless tests have left Nick Nack so distraught that he rips out his own hair. Not a moment of his life has been his own—not what he eats, where he sleeps, or with whom he interacts. PETA’s ad in The Washington Times gives voice to Nick Nack and the other monkey prisoners of Murray’s laboratory, who are desperate to take back control of their own lives.
Elisabeth Murray Is Doing Junk Science—Even Primate Experimenters Agree!
April 19, 2022
Distraught from years of social isolation, monkeys in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory circle in their cages, rock back and forth, and even rip out their own hair. Experimenting on them won’t tell us the first thing about normal emotional responses in humans—a new study confirms it. Evaluating the effects of solitary confinement on monkeys’ behavior in common laboratory tests, experimenters with the California National Primate Research Center concluded that the results of such tests “may be severely confounded” by keeping monkeys caged alone. Elisabeth Murray, are you paying attention?
PETA’s ‘Monkey’ Mascot Dashes to the National Mall to Inform Runners About Elisabeth Murray’s Lab of Horrors
April 3, 2022
Set against a dazzling backdrop of blooming pink trees, the 2022 Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington, D.C., attracted 17,000 participants, thousands more spectators—and one “rhesus macaque.” PETA’s roving “monkey” mascot Beamish informed athletes and others on the bustling National Mall about the plight of his real-life namesake, imprisoned just a short car ride away in the laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In their natural environment, macaques love to roam, climb, and swim—but Beamish has spent the past 14 years at NIMH confined to a cramped steel cage, unable to feel the sun on his back or the cool dirt beneath his feet.
PETA to Prospective Mars Colonizer Elon Musk: Take Elisabeth Murray With You!
March 30, 2022
Elon Musk is dreaming of colonizing Mars, and PETA has found the perfect companion for his mission: fellow monkey tormenter Elisabeth Murray. While the South African billionaire infamously has holes drilled in monkeys’ skulls and has chips implanted in their brains, Murray continues her own meddling in monkeys’ heads, cutting open their skulls and pumping their brains with toxic acid. It’s a match made for Mars—and Earth’s monkeys (and compassionate humans everywhere) would be happy to see them go.
Tormented ‘Monkey’ Brings Beamish’s Story out of the Laboratory, Into the Neighborhood
March 10, 2022
To spread the word about the egregious cruelty and waste of Elisabeth Murray’s $50 million experiments, PETA’s larger-than-life monkey mascot Beamish—named for a real-life rhesus macaque currently imprisoned in her laboratory—greeted Murray’s neighbors as they left her leafy condo complex and headed to work. While Murray perhaps sipped her coffee and perused the newspaper nearby in her spacious residence, the actual Beamish continued to languish in a desolate steel cage barely bigger than his own body.
Callers Demand That NIMH Stop Mutilating Monkeys’ Brains; NIMH Blames Humans With Mental Illness
January 31, 2022
Hundreds of outraged callers kept the phone ringing off the hook at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) when they contacted the agency to decry the appalling and worthless monkey fright experiments of Elisabeth Murray. But rather than taking accountability for the grisly tests—on which NIMH has squandered $50 million and hundreds of monkeys’ lives—an NIMH representative told callers that the agency was forced to brain-damage and terrify monkeys because not enough humans with mental illness, including PTSD, had signed up to be test subjects. It seems that neither Murray nor the minions tasked with defending her indefensible experiments got the memo that there are modern, human-relevant research methods to answer her questions about the brain—no cutting into monkeys’ or humans’ skulls required.
Activists Dragg ed Off in Handcuffs While Occupying HHS Lobby in Behalf of Tormented Monkeys
January 25, 2022
Chanting, “Elisabeth Murray has blood on her hands!” seven PETA supporters were arrested after refusing to leave the lobby of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headquarters in protest of Elisabeth Murray’s cruel experiments on monkeys. The protest had begun earlier outside HHS, where PETA’s “monkey” mascot Beamish and other activists unfurled a massive banner demanding that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) end the gruesome tests. NIH, which is overseen by HHS, has poured $50 million in taxpayer funds into these experiments despite their utter irrelevance to humans.
Called Out in the Caller: PETA Slams NIH for Wasting $50 Million on Junk Science
January 21, 2022
Emblazoned across the top of The Daily Caller website, PETA’s large banner ad blasts the National Institutes of Health for squandering millions in taxpayer funds on experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s ghoulish monkey terror tests.
Elisabeth Murray’s Ho-Ho-Horrible Monkey Terror Tests Earn Her Coal for the Holidays
December 23, 2021
Serial monkey tormentor Elisabeth Murray is on PETA’s “naughty” list this year for cutting open, brain-damaging, and traumatizing monkeys. So just in time for Christmas Eve, we teamed up with Santa to send her the perfect stocking stuffer: a bag of coal.
Activists Plaster Poles, Decorate Doorknobs in Murray’s Neighborhood
November 20, 2021
Sweatpants-clad joggers and latte-sipping shoppers spotted posters and leaflets decrying Elisabeth Murray’s gruesome terror tests on monkeys throughout her leafy neighborhood and a nearby shopping complex. In addition to peppering the neighborhood with posters, activists completed the scene by leaving behind door hangers notifying Murray’s neighbors of her grim experiments.
With Protest in Experimenter’s Neighborhood, Activists Hammer Home a Message: End Monkey Terror Tests Now!
September 25, 2021
The call to end experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s ghoulish monkey fright tests came to her street one sunny Saturday morning, when activists staged a peaceful but passionate protest outside her residence. The demonstration hit home with some of her neighbors, who stopped to thank the protesters or raised a fist in solidarity as they jogged by.
PETA Blasts NIH Director for Secretly Greenlighting High-Risk Virus-Engineering Experiments
September 13, 2021
Elisabeth Murray’s worthless and deadly terror tests on brain-damaged macaques are far from the only disturbing experiments to receive National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins’ warped stamp of approval. Following The Washington Post’s explosive revelation that Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci have been secretly approving and funding high-risk “gain-of-function” research—pathogen-engineering experiments that can make deadly viruses even more contagious or virulent—PETA rushed an ad into The Washington Times demanding that the NIH director be booted from his position.
PETA Slaps NIH With Free-Speech Lawsuit After Agency Blocks Criticism of Its Monkey Torture on Social Media
September 9, 2021
Feel like telling the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that its monkey torture tests are garbage? NIH wants you to keep your mouth shut—and it’s apparently willing to violate the First Amendment in order to make that happen. PETA is suing the agency for blocking comments containing words such as “monkey,” “experiment,” “testing,” and “torture” on its social media pages.
Ad: Famed Primatologist Biruté Galdikas Slams NIH for Monkeying Around With Monkeys’ Brains
August 23, 2021
Esteemed primate expert Dr. Biruté Galdikas is outraged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is wasting her tax dollars to scramble monkeys’ brains for crude, pointless fright experiments. PETA’s hard-hitting full-page ad in The Washington Post quotes her powerful letter to NIH Director Francis Collins: “The world has marched on and left unimaginative repetitive studies of no particular value, like Dr. Murray’s, behind in the dust.”
Bestselling Author and Animal Expert Sy Montgomery Pens Letter to NIH: ‘I Am Shocked’
August 3, 2021
When naturalist and New York Times bestselling author Sy Montgomery caught wind of the ghastly cruelty occurring in National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory, she couldn’t remain silent. “I was sickened to learn that the torments [monkeys in Murray’s laboratory] endure include neurotoxic injections, repeated restraint, food and fluid restriction, trauma-inducing psychological tests, and other harms,” she writes in a pointed letter to NIH Director Francis Collins. “I am shocked that this egregious cruelty is occurring at the nation’s premier biomedical research agency.”
Billboard-on-Wheels Drives Nightmare at NIH out of the Shadows
July 31, 2021
The screams of monkeys trapped at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) echoed through the streets of Bethesda, Maryland, as PETA’s attention-grabbing mobile billboard cruised through town. Elsewhere in Bethesda, at NIH, monkeys in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory endure a nightmare that would make anyone scream: Experimenters saw open their skulls, scramble their brains with toxic injections, restrain them for hours at a time, blast puffs of air into their eyes, deprive them of food and fluids, and more.
PETA Blasts the Backward Experiments of Elisabeth Murray in Impossible-to-Miss Ads
July 26, 2021
While science leaps forward with revolutionary technology, including advanced imaging techniques involving consenting humans, National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray remains stuck in the mud of the past. PETA slams her medieval monkey tests—for which she’s burned through $49 million in taxpayer funds without yielding a single treatment for humans—in ads popping up all over Washington, D.C.
Flurry of Fly Posters, Deluge of Door Hangers Blanket NIH Experimenter’s Neighborhood
July 20, 2021
Monkey defenders dropped by National Institutes of Health (NIH) experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s neighborhood and the area near NIH to bedeck telephone poles, neighbors’ doors, and sidewalks with a message in behalf of macaques imprisoned and exploited in Murray’s ghastly fright experiments.
Bolstered by 179,000 Signatures, Activists Bring Home a Message to NIH Director Collins
July 7, 2021
A troop of primates—one a statue, the others human—converged in Maryland for a peaceful demonstration outside the home of NIH Director Francis Collins, urging him to end the exploitation and imprisonment of rhesus macaques for experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s ghoulish and crude monkey terror tests. Covered head to toe with the signatures of more than 179,000 opponents of these barbaric experiments, PETA’s larger-than-life macaque statue served as the protest’s solemn mascot.
PETA President Delivers Monkey Statue to NIH Director's Home PETA activists led by President Ingrid Newkirk are outside the home of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins with an urgent message from over 179,000 supporters. Add your voice now! https://peta.vg/366f Posted by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) on Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Giant ‘Spider’ With a Message Descends on HHS: Arachno to Monkey Terror Tests!
May 25, 2021
Flanked by chanting protesters, PETA’s eight-legged behemoth appeared on the concrete plaza outside the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At NIH, experimenter Elisabeth Murray uses fake spiders of her own to terrify trapped macaques whose brains she has damaged with toxins. The amount of suffering endured by the hundreds of monkeys she’s killed (costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, without producing a single treatment for humans) eclipses even PETA’s massive arachnid.
PETA’s Birthday Gift to NIH Director Is a Compelling Reason to End Monkey Tests
April 13, 2021
NIH Director Francis Collins, a devoted Christian, cites C.S. Lewis as a major influence—so PETA sent him a compilation of the prominent Christian thinker’s essays, Compelling Reason, for his birthday on April 14. Contained in the book, Lewis’ 1947 essay “Vivisection,” a searing condemnation of experiments on animals, offers yet another compelling reason why Collins should end NIH’s monkey fright tests.
Elisabeth Murray’s Latest Experiment Shapes Up to Be Nonsense, PETA Reveals
March 24, 2021
Serial animal tormentor Elisabeth Murray has taken on a (not-so-)burning question with $17 million of your tax money: Do monkeys think that cartoon shapes have feelings? PETA’s blog post about her latest experiment—which involved restraining macaques and depriving them of water to make them cooperate—demonstrates that it’s time for her and the National Institutes of Health to shape up and stop wasting money and lives on nonsensical experiments on monkeys.
PETA Blog: Murray’s Medieval Monkey Tests Should Be Tossed in the Trash Bin of History
March 4, 2021
With just a tap or a click, you can chat in real time with someone on the other side of the planet, check in on astronauts on the International Space Station via a live video feed from space, or order a to-go coffee from your favorite java hut. But at the National Institutes of Health—supposedly the world’s premier medical research agency—monkey tormentor Elisabeth Murray is still strapping macaques into restraint chairs that were developed in the 1950s. PETA has a message for animal experimenters like her: It’s time to ditch the primitive tests and join the 21st century.
PETA Ad Starkly Contrasts the Rich Lives of Macaques in Their Natural Habitat With the Lives of Those Suffering at NIH
February 24, 2021
In nature, rhesus macaques spend their days exploring woodlands, devouring delicious fruits and seeds, grooming one another, swimming, and leaping from branch to branch. Meanwhile, in laboratories like Elisabeth Murray’s at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), monkeys just like them are subject to experimenters’ whims for their entire lives—trapped in small metal cages and unable to explore, socialize, forage for treats, or do anything else that matters to them. In Washington, D.C., viewers tuning in to the news saw the lives of the free animals vividly juxtaposed with those of captive macaques during the airing of PETA’s ad on CBS and NBC.
PETA’s Pandemic Present to NIH, NIMH Directors Is a Mask With a Message
February 16, 2021
There’s no masking the truth about Elisabeth Murray’s experiments on brain-damaged macaques: They’re inexcusably cruel and scientifically nonsensical. PETA sent National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins and National Institute of Mental Health Director Joshua Gordon face coverings featuring a simple message—end animal experiments!—to encourage them to mask up and own up to the unjustifiability of tormenting monkeys in these tests.
PETA Blog Exposes the Crooked Branches and Twisted Roots of Elisabeth Murray’s ‘Family Tree’
February 4, 2021
In the four decades that Elisabeth Murray has been tormenting and killing monkeys, she’s taught her bloody craft to at least 21 people—and the poisoned apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Murray’s “children” have gone on to inject viruses and chemicals into monkeys’ brains, starve and drug mice, and addict rats to cocaine and alcohol. She herself is the speciesist academic spawn of notorious experimenter Mortimer Mishkin, whose monstrously cruel experiments involved inflicting brain damage in monkeys and lobotomizing them.
Infographic Highlights Waste of Animal Lives, Taxpayer Money at ‘National Institutes of Horrors’
January 5, 2021
If you had been one of the more than 568,000 animals imprisoned or used at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Maryland campuses in 2019, you may have found yourself baked to death because of a malfunctioning heating system, denied post-surgical pain relief, killed because you were accidentally fed the wrong diet, or stuck in a room with the lights on continuously for five months. NIH funnels more than $17.6 billion into experiments on animals every year, among them the worthless and cruel tests conducted on macaques by Elisabeth Murray.
PETA Video Exposes NIMH’s Sickening Legacy of Monkey Terror Experiments
December 5, 2020
Experimenters at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)—or should it be called the “National Institute of Monkey Hell”?—conducted tests on baby monkeys that included tearing them away from their mothers and locking them in cages barely bigger than their bodies. As PETA’s video shows, experimenters also heavily sedated the mothers and watched as the confused and terrified babies frantically tried to wake them up. PETA was able to put an end to these experiments on baby monkeys in 2015, but NIMH—a part of the National Institutes of Health—is still terrifying monkeys in the laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray.
PETA’s Massive Banner on the Beltway Urges NIH to Give the Red Light to Monkey Experiments
November 24, 2020
On a bridge over the Capital Beltway, less than a mile from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), activists grabbed the attention of morning commuters—and, surely, NIH—with a massive banner urging the agency to end Elisabeth Murray’s barbaric fright experiments on monkeys. Many passing rush-hour motorists honked their support for PETA’s unmissable message.
PETA Exposes: Elisabeth Murray, NIH Heads Rake in Big Bucks to Torment Animals
November 3, 2020
Wish you made $337,000 a year? You would if you were Joshua Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, tasked with overseeing Elisabeth Murray’s terror tests on monkeys and other painful, useless animal experiments. Francis Collins, who oversees even more pointless experiments on thousands of animals every year as director of the National Institutes of Health, and Murray herself also make sums tidy enough to put them in the top 10% of wage earners in the U.S.—and their salaries are coming out of taxpayer pockets like yours. Get the details.
‘Chalktivists’ to National Institute of Mental Health Director: ‘End the Monkey Torture’
October 31, 2020
Chalk it up to their dedication to monkeys: Activists left a pointed message for Joshua Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), on the sidewalks and streets near his home, urging him to end Elisabeth Murray’s ghoulish fright tests on monkeys. NIMH is the part of NIH in which Murray conducts these tests.
Student Activist to NIH: Modernize Your N euroscience, End Tests on Animals
October 31, 2020
Writing for an NIH-sponsored essay contest about ethics and neuroscience innovation, Students Against Speciesism (SOS) activist Presley Hill condemned experiments on nonconsenting animals, such as those on brain-damaged monkeys in NIH experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory. “Neuroscience is the future, and the future is now—experimenting on animals for medicine is an irrelevant practice given the access we have to technology and past research,” she wrote. “Science cannot progress if we continue to rely on outdated, unethical methods.”
Tech-Savvy Teen Develops Video Game for PETA, Urges Murray to Declare ‘Game Over’ on Her Experiments
October 14, 2020
Players of California high school student Archit Kumar’s gripping new video game control an animated monkey who dashes over tables and hops barrels of toxins in a desperate bid for freedom from Murray’s laboratory. The game draws attention to the plight of the unwilling players in her real-life experiments: the countless monkeys she has tormented in her decades of cruel tests. Check out Kumar’s game here.
© Archit Kumar
Blog Post Breaks Down NIH Waste, Cruelty by the Numbers
October 12, 2020
Monkeys like Wilfork, Gronk, and Jaws who suffer in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory aren’t the only ones tormented at NIH: Annually, the agency imprisons or experiments on over 4,000 monkeys and hundreds of thousands of other animals at its Maryland campus. NIH wastes billions in taxpayer dollars funding failed animal experiments like Murray’s every year. Get the numerical breakdown.
Primatologists, Psychiatrists, Other Experts Slam ‘Immeasurably Cruel’ Monkey Experiments in Video
October 1, 2020
Describing them as “immeasurably cruel,” “outdated and barbaric,” and “the stuff of horror movies,” the experts whose statements are featured in this video roundly condemn the fright experiments on monkeys at the National Institutes of Health on both scientific and ethical grounds. Read the experts’ full statements here.
Former Primate Experimenter Criticizes ‘Limited Benefits,’ ‘Considerable Harms’ of Fright Tests in Washington Examiner Ad
September 29, 2020
PETA’s ad in the Washington Examiner features the words of John Gluck, Ph.D., a professor and former primate experimenter, who says of Murray’s horrendous and wasteful monkey fright tests, “It is concerning that … these experiments continue at the nation’s most prestigious research facility.”
PETA Denounces Scary NIH Monkey Experiments, Government Waste With Bikeshare Ads on Capitol Hill
September 28, 2020
In the era of social distancing, PETA’s ads on Capital Bikeshare stands get up close and personal right where it counts: in the seat of U.S. government on Capitol Hill, where decisions about NIH funding are made. The agency’s scarily cruel fright experiments on monkeys—which the ads point out have sucked up $36 million in government funds—have been going on for three decades, despite being irrelevant to human illness.
In Video, Student Activists Bring to Life Beamish’s Heart-Wrenching Story of Suffering
September 24, 2020
Activists with PETA’s youth-led Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS) program gave voice to tormented monkey Beamish, whose skull was cut open and whose brain was mutilated before he was trapped in a small metal box and terrified with lifelike rubber spiders and snakes. Macaques like him have been enduring this fate in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory for over three decades.
Video Spotlights Celebrities Who Have Spo ken Out for Monkeys in Murray’s Laboratory
September 9, 2020
Lights … camera … action! In this compilation video, PETA puts the spotlight on the famous figures who have lent their voices to the campaign against monkey fright experiments at NIH—from Real Time host Bill Maher to award-winning actors James Cromwell and Anjelica Huston.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=753160225260447
PETA Scientist Pens Pointed Scientific Critique of NIH’s Monkey Terror Tests
September 1, 2020
In her in-depth scientific critique of Elisabeth Murray’s monkey fright experiments at NIH, PETA scientist Dr. Katherine Roe explains the suffering that these tests cause, their inapplicability to humans, and the various animal-free alternatives that actually benefit humans with mental illness. Read her full critique here.
Mobile Billboard Takes Heartbreaking Footage of Murray’s Experiments to the Streets
August 31, 2020
Broadcasting footage of the terrified monkeys used in Elisabeth Murray’s gruesome experiments, PETA’s mobile billboard circled NIH and the neighborhoods of Murray and NIH Director Francis Collins, spreading awareness of the cruel tests.
Actor James Cromwell Takes On ‘American Horror Story’ at NIH in Message to Agency’s Employees
August 26, 2020
Over 10,000 NIH employees received a voicemail from Emmy Award–winning star of FX’s American Horror Story James Cromwell, in which he urges them to ask Director Francis Collins to end the agency’s terror tests on monkeys. “[Elisabeth] Murray’s so-called ‘research’ has gone unchecked for 30 years,” Cromwell says in the message. “How many monkeys have died for her hideous pseudo-science? How many human lives could be saved if we stopped funding this madness?”
PETA’s Christian Outreach Division Appeals to NIH Director Francis Collins’ Christian Values in Bethesda Magazine Ad
August 21, 2020
In its ad in Bethesda Magazine—which features the letter that PETA’s Christian outreach division, LAMBS, previously sent NIH Director Francis Collins—LAMBS urges Collins to follow Jesus’ example of compassion and mercy by ending NIH’s painful monkey fright tests.
In Video, ‘Students Opposing Speciesism’ Condemns Terror Tests on Monkeys Like Guinness
August 11, 2020
A video from the PETA-backed youth movement Students Opposing Speciesism calls attention to the suffering of monkeys like Guinness, who was cut open, inflicted with brain damage, and terrorized in Elisabeth Murray’s NIH laboratory. “Experiments like these wouldn’t be acceptable if performed on a human, and it’s speciesist to think they are acceptable when performed on any other animal,” the video points out.
PETA Urges NIH Employees to ‘Demand Better’ in Facebook Ad
July 23, 2020
PETA’s ad just for National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees features the heartbreaking image of Wilfork—one of the many monkeys Elisabeth Murray has tormented in her laboratory over the past three decades—and urges the employees to e-mail us to find out how they can help animals like him.
PETA Tells Murphy’s Story of Being Treated as a Test Tube in Elisabeth Murray’s Laboratory
July 20, 2020
PETA’s heartrending illustrated video tells the story of Murphy, a monkey in NIH experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory who was torn away from his mother as a baby, subjected to invasive surgery in which his skull was cut open and part of his brain was suctioned out, and terrified with realistic spiders and snakes.
Elisabeth Murray’s Nightmare for Monkeys Exposed in Areawide Ad Blitz
July 14, 2020
PETA’s attention-grabbing mobile billboard drove through the Bethesda, Maryland, neighborhoods of experimenter Elisabeth Murray and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins and past NIH to warn people about Murray’s ghoulish monkey fright experiments. Ads pointing out the $36 million in taxpayer funds that she has wasted on these tests also went up on Capital Bikeshare stands around Washington, D.C., and D.C. viewers of NBC, CBS, and ABC caught an airing of our TV ad about the cruel experiments.
Starved, Isolated, Brain-Damaged, and More—Blog Exposes the Scariest Things Monkeys Endure in Murray’s Laboratory
July 13, 2020
Being experimented on in Elisabeth Murray’s lab would be terrifying—a section of your skull would be carved out, toxins would be injected into your brain, you’d be trapped in an inescapable metal box, and more. Read 10 reasons why these experiments are terrifying for the macaques locked in her laboratory.
‘WANTED’ Posters Demanding an End to Monkey Experiments Hit Bus Shelters Near National Institutes of Health
July 12, 2020
Bus riders in the Washington, D.C., area will want Elisabeth Murray’s experiments to end after seeing the frightened face of one of the many monkeys she has tormented in her experiments on “WANTED” posters that popped up at bus shelters near the National Institutes of Health.
Activists Adoorn Homes in Murray’s Neighborhood With a Message: Your Neighbor Torments Monkeys
July 2, 2020
Activists spread the word to Elisabeth Murray’s neighbors about the “monkey fright night” in her laboratory with door hangers that detail the pain and terror that monkeys have endured in her experiments for over three decades.
Documents Reveal More Misery for Monkeys in Elisabeth Murray’s Pain Factory
June 25, 2020
PETA has obtained documents from NIH revealing that in addition to being terrorized with fake spiders, monkeys in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory are subjected to multiple craniotomies (brain surgeries), repeated sedation and restraint, starvation to force them to cooperate, and more. PETA filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture alleging what we believe are serious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
Activists Blanket National Institute of Mental Health Director’s Neighborhood With Fliers Calling Out Murray’s Experiments
June 23, 2020
The neighbors of Joshua Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, have a supporter of monkey torture in their midst—and it’s secret no longer, thanks to fliers posted around his neighborhood calling out the monkey fright experiments that he allows at his institution.
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PETA Urges American Psychological Association President: Study Elisabeth Murray’s Brain!
June 23, 2020
PETA wrote a letter to American Psychological Association President Sandra Shullman urging her to include a study of Elisabeth Murray’s brain in an upcoming issue of its journal Behavioral Neuroscience, which Murray will be co-editing. PETA proposes that the non-invasive study—which, unlike Murray’s terror tests on monkeys, would actually be human-relevant—compare Murray’s brain activity while she looks at a heartbreaking photo of one of the monkeys she torments to that of a sample of the empathetic 52% of Americans who oppose animal experimentation.
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PETA Urges James Bond Producer Barbara Broccoli to Help Monkeys Named After Characters in the Film Franchise
June 18, 2020
In our letter to Barbara Broccoli, PETA calls on the James Bond producer to condemn the National Institutes of Health’s fright experiments on monkeys, in which animals named after Goldfinger, Oddjob, Jaws, Le Chiffre, and other Bond villains are mutilated, tormented, and killed.
Poster-Hanging Activists Tell Elisabeth Murray: An End to Your Experiments is ‘WANTED’
June 12, 2020
Elisabeth Murray’s experiments on monkeys are so cruel, they should be criminal—yet instead of stopping them, the government funds them. Activists called Murray out for her cruelty with “WANTED” posters that they hung on lampposts, telephone poles, and other places in the Washington, D.C., area.
Activists Chalk Elisabeth Murray’s Neighborhood for Monkeys
June 4, 2020
Armed with washable blue spray chalk and stencils, activists left Elisabeth Murray an unmistakable message on roads and sidewalks in her neighborhood: “End Monkey Fright Tests!”
PETA’s Christian Outreach Division Urges NIH Director to Be Merciful and End Monkey Fright Experiments
June 4, 2020
After National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, who identifies as Christian, was awarded the 2020 Templeton Prize for his work integrating science and faith, PETA’s Christian outreach division, LAMBS, sent him a letter urging him to emulate Christ’s compassion by ending Elisabeth Murray’s cruel monkey fright experiments at NIH.
Bill Maher Joins PETA’s Call for NIH to Stop Torturing Monkeys NOW
May 28, 2020
Instead of preparing for a real health crisis (e.g., COVID-19), NIH is spending millions in taxpayer dollars frightening monkeys with rubber snakes. Political commentator, comedian, and Real Time host Bill Maher breaks down the hypocrisy in his latest “New Rules” video for PETA and explains how you can take action to help.
Elisabeth Murray’s Protocols Expose Additional Mistreatment of Monkeys in NIH Laboratory
May 26, 2020
PETA received 67 pages of documents in response to our Freedom of Information Act request to the National Institutes of Health for copies of Elisabeth Murray’s experimental protocols. These show her written intentions to mutilate, experiment on, and kill monkeys in her laboratory. Read the 10 things you should know about these experiments.
For some experiments, monkeys are forced to wear a collar and are strapped into a “restraint chair” much like this one.
PETA Calls Out NIH With Online Ads in The New York Times and The Washington Post
May 14, 2020
Ads alerting taxpayers to the millions of dollars that NIH wastes tormenting monkeys with rubber spiders went live on the websites of two of the most widely circulated newspapers in the U.S., The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Scientist Condemns Monkey Fright Experiments in Mental Health Awareness Month Op-Ed
May 13, 2020
In her op-ed for Mental Health Awareness Month, PETA scientist Emily Trunnell calls out the National Institute of Mental Health for wasting funds on cruel and ineffective tests, such as Murray’s fright experiments on monkeys and the forced swim test on mice, while millions of Americans suffer from mental health conditions exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Tax dollars should be spent on modern, human-relevant research methods that offer real hope,” she writes, “not on senselessly terrorizing animals.”
A PETA scientist lays out how experiments on animals are not only cruel, they're also wasting money and time.
Animals are being terrorized in government labs while mental health patients wait for treatments. #StopAnimalTests https://t.co/cSseDCMs0e — PETA (@peta) May 13, 2020
Anjelica Huston Calls on NIH to Stop Terrifying Monkeys
May 5, 2020
When PETA showed Hollywood A-lister Anjelica Huston footage from NIH’s horrific and wasteful “monkey fright” experiments, she knew that she had to take action. The PETA honorary director wrote a letter to NIH Director Francis Collins, asking him to stop funding these cruel experiments and pointing out that in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to ensure that our country is making smart scientific and fiscal decisions.
PETA Scientist Slams Wasteful Monkey Fright Experiments in Op-Ed
April 29, 2020
Pointing out that our tax dollars could be better spent combating the shortage of basic medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, PETA scientist Katherine Roe writes that Elisabeth Murray’s monkey fright experiments are not only irrelevant to humans but also shockingly cruel.
PETA Urges Congress to Cut Crappy ‘Monkey Fright’ Experiments With Toilet Paper Delivery
April 22, 2020
With toilet paper in high demand during the COVID-19 lockdown, PETA sent members of Congress each a specialty roll with the message “$36 Million Down the Toilet for NIH Monkey Fright Experiments. Wipe It Out!”
PETA Rolls Into Murray’s Neighborhood With a Drive-By Protest
April 22, 2020
Driving cars emblazoned with the message “End Monkey Fright Tests!” a caravan of PETA protesters honked their horns outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH) headquarters, the home of NIH Director Francis Collins, and the home of government monkey experimenter Elisabeth Murray. Neighbors who were homebound as a result of COVID-19 came out to observe the ruckus.
PETA Shares an Open Letter to NIH Officials From Monkeys Suffering in Murray’s Experiments
April 16, 2020
The directors of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health complained of the stress and anxiety of the COVID-19 lockdown. Twenty-three monkeys trapped in Elisabeth Murray’s laboratory—who experience the stress and frustration of confinement and isolation every day—wrote them a letter.
Wi th People in ‘Lockdown,’ PETA Launches Ad Blitz on Social Media
April 2, 2020
As more people stayed home to avoid spreading the highly contagious coronavirus and spent more time online, PETA launched an ad blitz on social media focused on Elisabeth Murray’s cruel and wasteful experiments. Even as the world awaits cures for deadly diseases, NIH squanders research money by sucking out parts of monkeys’ brains and then scaring them with fake “snakes” and “spiders.”
Government Experimenter Fears Images From Cruel Lab Will Get Into ‘Wrong Hands’
March 17, 2020
In an interview uncovered by PETA, experimenter Elisabeth Murray let it slip that she doesn’t want taxpayers who care about animals—and paid for her experiments—to see what happens to vulnerable monkeys in her laboratory, saying, “You know, to be honest with you, we don’t usually take photos of that sort of thing because we are all afraid they’ll fall into the wrong hands.”
PETA Supporters Protest NIH Monkey Experiments
March 5, 2020
Brandishing blown-up images of monkeys used and abused in Elisabeth Murray’s experiments, PETA protesters descended on the Department of Health & Human Services building to demand an end to the tests.
PETA Neuroscientist Calls on NIH and HHS to Pull the Plug on Monkey Fright Experiments
February 24, 2020
In a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, PETA scientist Katherine Roe made the scientific and ethical argument for pulling the plug on Elisabeth Murray’s “monkey fright” experiments. PETA’s factsheet on the experiments provides a description of what Murray does to monkeys in her laboratory and why the experiments are catastrophically flawed.
PETA Releases Never-Before-Seen Video of Government ‘Monkey Fright’ Experiments
February 24, 2020
After receiving 43 hours of never-before-seen video of cruel “monkey fright” experiments carried out at the National Institutes of Health by government experimenter Elisabeth Murray, PETA publicized footage from the twisted tests on its website.
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petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--COVID-19 Prompts PETA Call for Loyola University Chicago to Shut Down Animal Labs

School Laboratories to Consider Terminating Studies , Which Will Likely Involve Killing Many Animals Chicago – Because of the COVID-19 outbreak , Loyola University Chicago is telling experimenters to consider terminating studies , which will likely involve killing many animals .
PETA fired off a letter today to the university ’ s president , Jo Ann Rooney , demanding to know why the school conducts noncritical animal experiments .
The group is also asking the public to e-mail the university via this action alert to urge it to be transparent regarding the number of animals it deems nonessential and euthanizes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all current and new animal experiments .
“ Loyola University Chicago ’ s use of intelligent and sensitive animals in experiments as though they were nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment is shameful , ” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala .
“ The COVID-19 pandemic should be a moral and scientific reckoning for the school , which conducts deadly experiments on animals it keeps inside small steel cages .
If it can ’ t prove that the experiments are essential—and its response to the pandemic indicates that they ’ re not—it must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money on them once the pandemic is over.
” Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives , as more than 90 % of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fail to lead to treatments for humans .
( Please read under “ Lack of benefit for humans ” here . )
And 95 % of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials .
PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ —opposes speciesism , which is a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org or click here .
PETA ’ s letter to the university is available here .

School Laboratories to Consider Terminating Studies, Which Will Likely Involve Killing Many Animals
For Immediate Release:
May 5, 2020
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Chicago – Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Loyola University Chicago is telling experimenters to consider terminating studies, which will likely involve killing many animals.
PETA fired off a letter today to the university’s president, Jo Ann Rooney, demanding to know why the school conducts noncritical animal experiments. The group is also asking the public to e-mail the university via this action alert to urge it to be transparent regarding the number of animals it deems nonessential and euthanizes in response to COVID-19 and to stop all current and new animal experiments.
“Loyola University Chicago’s use of intelligent and sensitive animals in experiments as though they were nothing more than disposable laboratory equipment is shameful,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “The COVID-19 pandemic should be a moral and scientific reckoning for the school, which conducts deadly experiments on animals it keeps inside small steel cages. If it can’t prove that the experiments are essential—and its response to the pandemic indicates that they’re not—it must not be permitted to continue squandering taxpayer money on them once the pandemic is over.”
Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives, as more than 90% of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fail to lead to treatments for humans. (Please read under “Lack of benefit for humans” here.) And 95% of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or click here.
PETA’s letter to the university is available here.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--Anjelica Huston Urges NIH to Stop Spending Millions on Monkey-Fright Tests as People Die from COVID-

Anjelica Huston Urges NIH to Stop Spending Millions on Monkey-Fright Tests as People Die from COVID-19

While the Nation Grappled With a Lack of Ventilators , NIH Was Damaging Monkeys ' Brains and Scaring Them With Fake Snakes and Spiders Washington – Because frontline medical workers are battling COVID-19 without even basic protective equipment , Oscar winner Anjelica Huston has sent a letter on PETA ’ s behalf to Francis Collins , director of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) , urging him to slash the agency ’ s bloated budget for expensive and ineffective animal experiments and instead pursue human-relevant research that stands a chance of producing results .
“ People are dying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and even hospital beds , and many Americans are now confronting difficult choices about the best way to use their shrinking resources .
NIH is in a similar position , ” writes Huston .
“ Studies that are pointless , wasteful , or extremely cruel should be ended now , and that means the emphasis should be placed on non-animal studies , because they offer real promise.
” She takes particular aim at NIH experimenter Elisabeth Murray ’ s “ psychology experiments ” on monkeys , which , as Huston points out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million in taxpayer funding over the past 13 years , even though they ’ ve never led to the development of a single treatment for humans .
In the tests , Murray cuts into monkeys ’ heads , saws off a portion of their skulls , and injects toxins into their brains before they ’ re placed alone inside a small metal cage and deliberately frightened with rubber snakes and spiders .
Eventually , they ’ re killed .
Huston concludes , “ I urge you in the strongest possible terms to end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s priorities so that your focus is on human-relevant research and human health.
” Huston ’ s letter follows a drive-by protest held by PETA outside Collins ’ and Murray ’ s homes and the NIH building on April 21 .
PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to experiment on ” —opposes speciesism , which is a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .

While the Nation Grappled With a Lack of Ventilators, NIH Was Damaging Monkeys' Brains and Scaring Them With Fake Snakes and Spiders
For Immediate Release:
May 5, 2020
Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382
Washington – Because frontline medical workers are battling COVID-19 without even basic protective equipment, Oscar winner Anjelica Huston has sent a letter on PETA’s behalf to Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging him to slash the agency’s bloated budget for expensive and ineffective animal experiments and instead pursue human-relevant research that stands a chance of producing results.
“People are dying for lack of ventilators, effective treatments, and even hospital beds, and many Americans are now confronting difficult choices about the best way to use their shrinking resources. NIH is in a similar position,” writes Huston. “Studies that are pointless, wasteful, or extremely cruel should be ended now, and that means the emphasis should be placed on non-animal studies, because they offer real promise.”
She takes particular aim at NIH experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s “psychology experiments” on monkeys, which, as Huston points out, have received more than $36 million in taxpayer funding over the past 13 years, even though they’ve never led to the development of a single treatment for humans. In the tests, Murray cuts into monkeys’ heads, saws off a portion of their skulls, and injects toxins into their brains before they’re placed alone inside a small metal cage and deliberately frightened with rubber snakes and spiders. Eventually, they’re killed.
Huston concludes, “I urge you in the strongest possible terms to end these monkey-fright experiments and reorder your agency’s priorities so that your focus is on human-relevant research and human health.”
Huston’s letter follows a drive-by protest held by PETA outside Collins’ and Murray’s homes and the NIH building on April 21.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-05-05--Urgent From PETA: Hot-Weather Survival Tips for Animals

Phoenix – With an excessive heat advisory in effect for the Phoenix area , animals—who can quickly succumb to heatstroke if left outdoors—are at risk in hot weather .
In the past two years , there have been at least 114 hot weather–related animal deaths—and these are just the ones that have been reported .
Most aren ’ t .
Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty .
The following tips will help keep animal companions safe in hot weather : • Keep animals indoors .
Unlike humans , dogs can sweat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by panting , so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences .
Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately .
• Never leave an animal inside a hot vehicle .
Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars , and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open , which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car .
PETA offers an emergency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life-or-death situations .
• Avoid hot pavement .
When outdoor temperatures reach the 80s , asphalt temperatures can climb to 140 degrees , causing pain , burns , and permanent damage to dogs ’ paws after just a few minutes of contact .
Walk dogs on grass whenever possible , and avoid walking in the middle of the day .
Never run with dogs in hot weather—they ’ ll collapse before giving up , at which point , it may be too late to save them .
PETA has released a warm-weather public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more information , visit PETA.org .

For Immediate Release:
May 5, 2020
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Phoenix – With an excessive heat advisory in effect for the Phoenix area, animals—who can quickly succumb to heatstroke if left outdoors—are at risk in hot weather. In the past two years, there have been at least 114 hot weather–related animal deaths—and these are just the ones that have been reported. Most aren’t.
Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty.
The following tips will help keep animal companions safe in hot weather:
Keep animals indoors. Unlike humans, dogs can sweat only through their footpads and cool themselves by panting, so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences. Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately.
Unlike humans, dogs can sweat only through their footpads and cool themselves by panting, so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences. Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately. Never leave an animal inside a hot vehicle. Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars, and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car. PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for help with intervening in life-or-death situations.
Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars, and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car. for help with intervening in life-or-death situations. Avoid hot pavement. When outdoor temperatures reach the 80s, asphalt temperatures can climb to 140 degrees, causing pain, burns, and permanent damage to dogs’ paws after just a few minutes of contact. Walk dogs on grass whenever possible, and avoid walking in the middle of the day. Never run with dogs in hot weather—they’ll collapse before giving up, at which point, it may be too late to save them.
PETA has released a warm-weather public service announcement featuring Mckenna Grace. For more information, visit PETA.org.