Medical Testing

Inspire students to be interested in STEM fields by exploring the innovative non-animal methods being developed to fight COVID-19.

With hospitals overrun with COVID-19 patients desperate for treatment, there was no time to waste on animal trials in developing life-saving ventilators.

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.

This is why testing on animals in the search for a Parkinson’s cure must stop.

The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and biotech company Epithelix have joined forces to promote the use of human cell–based testing methods that replace the use of animals.

Viagra has consistently passed safety tests on animals, yet when it was used in a clinical trial for pregnant women whose placentas were underperforming, 11 babies died.

Over 100,000 supporters signed an open letter to the European Commission and the European Chemicals Agency demanding that Europe become a world leader in progressive and innovative science by ending cruel experiments.

Not only is using animals in potentially agonising experiments cruel, it’s also bad science.