AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk A/S Stick Up for Animals!
Animals win again, not once but twice! After discussions with PETA, pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk A/S both quickly agreed not to use the forced swim test on small animals.
AstraZeneca is the 12th-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, and Novo Nordisk A/S is close behind it at number 15. These industry leaders are helping PETA end abusive and pointless forced swim tests on small animals worldwide.
In these tests, experimenters drop animals—including mice, rats, guinea pigs, hamsters, and gerbils—into inescapable containers of water and watch them frantically struggle to free themselves. The panicked animals desperately search for an escape route, even diving underwater, and fight to stay afloat. Some companies claim that the experiments could help humans suffering from depression, but that assertion has been widely discredited by experts in the field.
AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk A/S join other pharmaceutical industry leaders, including Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, and Roche, in banning companywide use of these cruel and pointless tests. You can help PETA score more victories for animals used in forced swim experiments by urging Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer to get on this growing list today.
