Amanda Tumbleson 202-483-7382
Pittsburgh – Spiking COVID-19 cases are compromising Pennsylvania’s reopening plan, and PETA is calling on the governor and the Pennsylvania Department of Health to cut cruel animal experiments statewide starting with tests on animals whom institutions deemed to be non-essential in response to the pandemic and protect human health by having staff not come into laboratories to conduct worthless experiments.
In its letter, PETA points out that during the initial COVID-19 shutdown, universities in Pennsylvania issued guidance deeming many of their experiments and the animals used in them extraneous, which resulted in the apparent euthanasia of numerous animals in their laboratories, including the following: