Good News for Animals Summer 2023

Good News for Animals

PETA Exhibit Shows Visitors a Better Way P ETA’s new traveling exhibit, “Without Consent,” shows the long history of suffering that humans have inflicted on

They’re deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them. Many are kept isolated inside steel cages with nothing to see or do. Almost all of them will be killed if they survive the tests and their current living conditions. Through the exhibit’s 24 panels, visitors can read the stories of animals who have been subjected to these and other harrowing experiments: • Dogs forced to inhale cigarette smoke for months or electroshocked so many times that they gave up even trying to escape • Newborn monkeys taken from their mothers and raised alone in a “pit of despair” to induce devastating mental illness

nonconsenting animals in laboratories. The good news is that visitors will realize that although we can’t change terrible things in the past, we can help create a better future. Featuring nearly 200 real-life stories, this landmark exhibit establishes a timeline of U.S. laboratory experimentation on nonconsenting animals—and on vulnerable and oppressed humans as well. Right now, tens of millions of nonhuman animals—who are living, feeling beings just like us—are being held prisoner in laboratories throughout the U.S. and Canada. ‘Without Consent’ by the Numbers u Since 2021, the exhibit has traveled to 28 cities across the country. u We’ve shared information about the horrors of experimentation with over 15,000 engaged visitors online. u Over 56,000 website visitors have contacted their legislators to oppose animal testing and urge them to endorse the Research Modernization Deal (RMD).

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• Hamsters addicted to street drugs and forced to fight • Mice cut up while still alive and conscious • Cats deafened, drowned, and paralyzed There’s a better way—and PETA scientists have developed it. The Research Modernization Deal (RMD) outlines a roadmap and strategy for ending experiments on animals and for conducting human-relevant research. The RMD has been endorsed by esteemed physicians in many fields, patient advocacy groups, and professional medical organizations, including Last year, PETA launched Abduction, a unique virtual reality (VR) experience that puts viewers in an animal’s place—giving them a sense of what sentient beings snatched from their homes or bred in laboratories to become unwilling test subjects endure. Abduction has hit college campuses across the country—many of which house laboratories in which animals are imprisoned and tormented. In this eerie experience, viewers enter a mysterious truck and put on a VR headset. They soon find themselves seemingly stranded in the desert with fellow humans, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and put through a terrifying ordeal similar to what animals go through in laboratories. They watch as their friends are subjected to experiments—inspired by real ones performed on animals—knowing that they’ll be next. “Many students don’t know that on their college campuses, frightened and confused animals are being tormented, mutilated, and killed in cold, barren laboratories, with no way to escape or even understand what’s happening to them,” says peta2 Senior Director Rachelle Owen. “PETA is on a mission to open young people’s eyes to this cruelty and motivate them to join our call for a switch to superior, non-animal research.” Abduction is just one example of the innovative ways PETA helps young people understand the reality of experimentation on animals—and why we must take action to end it. To see if Abduction is coming to a school near you, visit PETA.org/Abduction . Abduction Offers ‘Close Encounters’ on College Campuses

the National Medical Association and the National Hispanic Medical Association. We’ve sent it to the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies—except for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is already working with PETA scientists to advance reliable, non-animal testing methods. To find the exhibit on tour near you and to learn more about the RMD, visit PETA.org/ConsentTour . You can also experience “Without Consent” for free online at WithoutConsent.peta.org and share it with others.

Since Abduction’s premiere last fall, this VR experience has been presented at 32 schools in 16 states plus Washington, D.C., and exhibited at South by Southwest—reaching 2,381 viewers and counting. It’s also available for free in the Meta Quest Store for anyone with an Oculus headset!

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