PETA Mouse At VP Debate: Wasteful Spending, Unnecessary Suffering! NIH Animal Studies Must Stop

PETA Mouse At VP Debate: Wasteful Spending, Unnecessary Suffering! NIH Animal Studies Must Stop – They Help No One, Bring Few Effective Treatments To Market For Humans

Editor’s note: While it is not known what the presidential candidates’ positions are on this topic, Senator Rand Paul has been incredibly vocal and strong in this fight to defend animals from needless, cruel, and inhumane tests with the FDA Modernization Act and the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 (after the FDA ignored the original law that requires them to phase out animal-based research as a requirement for research companies to submit new drugs for approval.  

Here’s statement for the Staten Islander from Dr. Katherine Roe, former NIH researcher and chief scientist within the Laboratory Investigations Department at PETA:

PETA is making sure candidates from both sides of the aisle know that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is wasting billions of dollars each year on cruel taxpayer funded experiments that consistently FAIL to lead to cures or treatments for Americans. The NIH needs to stop throwing away money terrorizing and killing millions of monkeys, dogs, cats, mice, and other animals, and start focusing on human-relevant research. PETA’s Research Modernization Deal outlines a strategy to phase out cruel and ineffective animal experiments and phase in modern innovative research that will help patients. Whoever wins in November needs to take action to help people and animals.

An additional question was sent over after receiving the quote above, specifically about the candidates’ known positions, if any: 

Q- Are the current candidate’s views known about this issue? Have either of them expressed an opinion one way or the other?

A- From Dr. Katherine Roe:

To the best of our knowledge, neither candidate has made public their personal or political views on the use of animals in experimentation. However, any presidential candidate should make improving the health of Americans a top priority.

PETA’s objective is to ensure both candidates are well-versed in the inherent harms and ineffectiveness of animal-based experimentation. Despite the failure of animal experiments to lead to new treatments and cures for Americans, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to funnel billions of dollars each year into worthless and cruel procedures on animals.  It is critical that whoever wins in November make phasing out the use of costly animal experimentation and increasing our investment in modern, human-relevant research an immediate goal of their administration.

From PETA’s original announcement: