Advocate

Sensitive, intelligent cephalopods (octopi, squid, and cuttlefish) can feel pain. They can—and do—suffer in experiments. These facts make it clear: the U.S. government must urgently adopt safeguards for these sentient creatures.

Arizona State University is cruelly putting monkeys in restraints, drilling screws into their skulls, implanting electrodes in their brains, and keeping them restrained for hours every day in experiments that last for years. Please take a moment to demand that ASU end these torturous experiments.

Request that the USDA perform a surprise inspection of Covance Laboratories, Inc. to check on how the staff treats the animals there.

In a single day, 27 NASA primates were killed rather than being given the chance to live the rest of their lives in a sanctuary. Demand accountability for this indiscriminate killing. Ask NASA's Inspector General to investigate this waste and misconduct.

Wild Mauritian monkeys are stolen from their homes and ripped from their families to be used in cruel experimentation. Urge the U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius, David Reimer, to fight for the end of this cruel and unnecessary trade in wild-caught monkeys.

Petco sells products manufactured by Marshall BioResources—a company that breeds dogs, ferrets, minipigs, and other animals to be sold to laboratories across the country for painful experiments. Help shut down this dog factory farm by telling Petco to cut ties with Marshall BioResources.

Virginia Commonwealth University is pumping captive monkeys full of drugs and then cutting them off with no pain relief. Please take 1 minute to demand that they ban experiments that inflict unmitigated pain and distress on nonhuman primates.

At the University of Houston researchers are damaging the vision of baby monkeys, drilling holes in their skulls, implanting coils and injecting them with chemicals. Please take 1 minute to call on our government's National Eye Institute to cut its funding for these brutal experiments.

Animal research facilities are not currently required to employ a full-time—or even part-time—vet. This has resulted in countless cases of needless suffering and death. Please demand change for animals trapped in labs.