PETA Applauds End to Cruel Sepsis Experiments on Beagles, Vows Continued Pressure to End All Sepsis Experiments on Animals: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
May 5, 2025

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Please see the following statement from PETA Director of Science Advancement and Outreach Dr. Emily Trunell regarding the announcement from National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya that the agency is stopping cruel and pointless sepsis experiments on beagles:

Washington—After more than a decade of agitation, tens of thousands of emails to NIH officials from PETA supporters, and a 2021 landmark lawsuit, PETA welcomes the long-overdue news that NIH is canceling at least one of the appalling sepsis experiments that inflicted prolonged suffering on animals in federal and federally funded laboratories. Since 2013, PETA has argued for the complete termination of these cruel and scientifically worthless experiments on ALL animals—and we will continue to fight until every last one is ended. It is also critical to underscore that the beagles tormented and killed in these now-terminated painful experiments were purchased from Envigo. This notorious facility was shut down after PETA’s undercover investigation exposed the nightmarish conditions in which thousands of dogs were warehoused. PETA’s investigation led to the historic rescue of 4,000 dogs.

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.