Forced Swim Test

University of Bristol experimenters must drop these dead-end experiments and switch to superior, human-relevant methods before it comes back to bite them.

After hearing from PETA, three independent medical research funding bodies rejected cruel near-drowning tests on animals.

In a newly published paper, PETA scientists present a watertight case for ending two inescapably cruel experiments on animals.

The forced swim test is no longer to be used as a model of human depression or for studies of anxiety in the UK.

PETA and world-leading academics and scientists are calling for an end to the forced swim test and for the Home Office to implement an immediate policy ban.

In this archaic experiment, small animals are forced into beakers of water and made to swim for their lives.

The Home Office must act immediately to end the use of the outrageously crude and cruel forced swim test.

Activists gathered outside the Home Office to demand an end to near-drowning tests on animals with a 40,000-strong PETA petition.

Forced swimming experiments cause mice, rats, and other small animals to suffer for dead-end science. A new PETA campaign highlights their ordeal with a satirical image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

Love Island star Lucie Donlan “treads water” to highlight the cruelty of the forced swim test on animals.