Build Back Kinder: PETA Ad Appeals to Biden to Ban Failed Animal Experiments
For Immediate Release:
January 6, 2022
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Build Back Better may have had a tough journey, but PETA is offering President Joe Biden another path to a progressive legacy that has bipartisan support: building back kinder by ending useless animal experiments. Scattered all around the nation’s capital are new bus shelter ads urging the president to “Ban Failed Animal Research Now.” PETA is urging the White House to embrace its Research Modernization Deal.
The National Institutes of Health squanders nearly half its annual budget on animal experiments—$19.5 billion in 2020—even though 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials and 90% of basic research, most of it involving animals, fails to lead to treatment for humans. Developed by PETA scientists, the Research Modernization Deal provides a strategy for phasing out the use of animals and implementing high-tech, cutting-edge, animal-free methods that are more likely to yield results relevant to humans. Late last year, after reviewing the strategy, members of the European Parliament voted in favor of developing a timed action plan to phase out animal experiments.
“Embracing animal-free research—including organs-on-a-chip technology, sophisticated computer simulations, and three-dimensional cultures of human cells—would prevent needless suffering, advance science, and define the Biden presidency as forward-thinking,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Emily Trunnell. “Reliance on animal experiments is slowing progress in disease research—PETA’s proposal would move government-funded science forward.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
