After a meeting with PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new policy the agency says will spare approximately 750 rats, rabbits, or guinea pigs each year from tests in which pesticides would have been applied to their shaved skin, after which the animals who didn’t die during the tests would have been killed.
Hundreds of Animals to Be Spared Pesticide Tests Annually Following PETA Prompt
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— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind