The Toronto District School Board—which directs the fourth largest school district in North America, with more than 600 schools—was considering the use of glue traps until PETA contacted district officials. They compassionately agreed that rodent control need not be cruel and are taking steps to ensure that glue traps are never used.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed with PETA in its third high-production volume (HPV) chemicals rule that there is sufficient existing data to drop certain animal testing, sparing almost 2,000 animals from painful oral and lethal toxicity tests!
October 2011 After hearing from a concerned student about experiments at an Indiana high school in which live fish were poisoned with insulin and sugar overdoses and then died, PETA immediately contacted the high school with information on humane alternatives to the animal laboratories. After diligently following up with school district personnel, PETA received confirmation … Read more »