Pune: ‘Mouse,’ ‘Rabbit,’ ‘Monkey,’ and ‘Dog’ Plead to be Spared Cruel Animal Tests During World Week for Animals in Laboratories
During the World Week for Animals in Laboratories (21st-27th April), PETA India and Hope for Paws Pune supporters put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits and geometric masks depicting a mouse, rabbit, dog, and monkey. They held signs that read, “Animals Are Not Ours to Experiment On,” and “Stop Animal Tests,” while greeting passersby in Pune to urge support for the position that animal experiments must be replaced by modern non-animal means.
Countless monkeys, dogs, mice, rabbits and other animals are mutilated, burned, blinded, cut open, poisoned, and drugged in laboratories every year. These tests are cruel, and their results are inapplicable to humans because of the vast physiological variation among species. Modern, non-animal research methods are reliable, human-relevant, and more cost-efficient than those involving animals.
India is already moving away from experiments on animals. PETA India’s efforts helped achieve a ban on cruel tests on animals for cosmetics and their ingredients, a ban on the importation of animal-tested cosmetics, and a ban on testing household products on animals in India. The New Drugs and Clinical Trials (Amendment) Rules, 2023 passed by the Government of India encourages the use of modern non-animal methods and technology.
PETA India scientists have developed the groundbreaking Research Modernisation Deal: a road map for strategically optimising India’s investment in research to cure disease and advance human wellbeing by focusing on methods such as advanced in vitro and in silico technologies that outperform animal-based methods.
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