‘Save Me and $22 Billion’: Guess Who Made a Big Squeak at the Vice Presidential Debate?
PETA’s giant “mouse” mascot shared the message “Save Me and $22 Billion: End NIH Animal Experiments!” outside the vice presidential debate in New York City—urging candidates to end the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) annual waste of billions of tax dollars on cruel and archaic experiments on animals.
PETA calls on all candidates to redirect taxpayers’ money to modern, human-relevant research that leaves animals in peace.
In September, PETA’s “mouse” mascot appeared outside the Trump-Harris debate in Philadelphia to challenge billions wasted on animal tests.
In August, PETA’s mouse mascot made a big squeak at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Earlier this summer, PETA’s mouse crashed the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
PETA’s mouse supports ending wasteful spending by the National Institutes of Health.
This agency squanders nearly half its annual budget on animal experiments—even though 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to effective treatments for humans and 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials, sometimes causing serious side effects such as anaphylaxis or even death.
The National Institutes of Health throws away public funds to prop up a broken system that wastes critical time and money harming animals in worthless experiments that benefit only the grantees.
Support PETA’s Research Modernization Deal
Experiments on animals have continued for decades with little oversight and no human-relevant results.
We urge all candidates and officials to support redirecting taxpayer funds to cutting-edge, non-animal research that could actually yield treatments and cures for humans.
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Note: PETA supports animal rights and opposes all forms of animal exploitation and educates the public on those issues. PETA does not directly or indirectly participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office or any political party.
