Photo Op: Giant PETA ‘Dino’ Will Appear at Local Trump Rally to Urge End to Archaic Animal Tests
For Immediate Release:
January 24, 2025
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
A massive inflatable PETA “dinosaur” sporting a giant election pin will share the message “SLASH the NIH Budget $23 Billion Wasted on Animal Tests in 2024” at President Trump’s rally at the Circa Resort and Casino on Saturday, letting passersby know that ending the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) cruel and outdated experiments on animals will stop the annual waste of billions of tax dollars.
NIH squanders $23 billion annually, nearly half its annual budget, on animal experiments—although 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to effective treatments for humans. In addition, 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals later fail in humans. PETA scientists have developed a strategy to phase out experiments on animals and implement modern, human-relevant research methods.
“NIH kills animals and flushes big money down the drain every year on painful and pointless experiments that benefit no one,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA urges our new leadership, which is rightly intent on trimming the NIH’s bloated budget, to start with these wasteful animal tests.”
When Saturday January 25, 11 a.m.
Where: Circa Resort & Casino, 8 Fremont St., Las Vegas
Contact Tasgola Bruner at 404-693-3285 or [email protected].
Interviews will be available on site and remotely. Photos will be available here after the event.
PETA’s dinosaur with PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. Credit: PETA
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.
For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
Note: PETA supports animal rights, 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.
