PETA ‘Mouse’ to Call Out Cruel Animal Tests Outside Republican National Convention

For Immediate Release:
July 12, 2024

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

PETA’s “mouse,” bearing the messages “NIH Wasted $22 Billion on Animal Tests Last Year” and “Save Me and $22 Billion: End Animal Experiments!” will call on candidates and officials to end the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) wasteful spending of billions in tax money every year on animal experiments that have continued for decades with no oversight or results.

Where: Outside Fiserv Forum, 1111 N. Vel R. Phillips Ave., Milwaukee

When: Monday, July 15, and Tuesday, July 16, starting at 11 a.m.

The 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.

“NIH squanders public funds to prop up a broken system that wastes critical time and money harming animals in worthless experiments that benefit no one but the grantees,” says PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “PETA calls on all candidates to redirect taxpayer funds to cutting-edge, non-animal research that could actually yield treatments and cures for humans.”

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 the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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.