Animal Testing

Following discussions with PETA and our affiliates, British multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline confirmed that it has permanently ended the use of the forced swim test on mice and other animals.

We need a COVID-19 vaccine, and we can’t waste time on ineffective animal testing. Luckily for us, medicines regulators agree.

PETA has joined forces with Cruelty Free Europe, Eurogroup for Animals, and Cruelty Free International to speak out against coronavirus tests on animals.

A PETA US investigator at the Cleveland Clinic in the US found mice paralysed, mutilated in Frankensteinian surgeries, and left to die in agony.

As EU legislators review the law designed to protect animals used in experiments, we’re calling for a moratorium on all experiments on animals.

We’ve collated these rescue stories for you – each one a testament to what can happen when compassionate people work together.

Social distancing requirements have temporarily halted physical demonstrations and marches, but that isn’t stopping us from speaking up for animals.

Air France is the only major airline that continues to transport monkeys to laboratories, despite the failure of primate experimentation to lead to cures and treatments for diseases.

We must turn our backs on the industries that exploit, abuse, and kill billions of animals every year. Doing so is easier than you might think.

Rabbits purr when they’re happy and jump into the air when excited, yet humans torment hundreds of thousands of them each year in European Union laboratories. Will you help these animals?