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Experiments on animals are cruel and unethical, but did you know they’re also pointless af?
The most recent independent study shows that 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to treatments for humans. Yet the biggest funder of research in the world, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), spends nearly half its annual budget on experiments on animals. 🤦
We need a better way—and PETA scientists have come up with it. Research Modernization NOW outlines a path to ending funding for strategies that don’t work (like experiments on animals) and investing in research relevant to humans.
The U.S. urgently needs this plan—help us put it into action!
NIH has failed to take effective steps to address the following problems:
- Ninety-five percent of all new drugs that test safe and effective in experiments on animals fail in human clinical trials.
- Some new drugs tested on animals have an even higher failure rate. Here are a few examples.
- HIV vaccine—100%
- Strokes—100%
- Sepsis—100%
- Alzheimer’s disease—99.6%
- Cancer—96.6%
- Up to 89% of preclinical studies—many of which use animals— can’t be reproduced, which is a major red flag in scientific research.
A 2018 Pew Research Center poll found that most Americans (52%) oppose the use of animals in experimentation. Those who support it—the minority—assume that the benefits to humans outweigh the harm to animals. But now we know that experiments on animals don’t help humans. ❌
That’s where PETA’s Research Modernization NOW comes in. It maps out a strategy that includes the following:
- Eliminating the use of animals ASAP in areas where it has already been shown to be ineffective.
- Critically reviewing more research areas to see where animal use can be phased out.
- Redirecting funds from experiments on animals to non-animal research.
- Introducing an ethical harm-benefit analysis system into U.S. policies in charge of the use of animals in biomedical research.
- Educating and training scientists in non-animal research approaches.
What You Can Do
We need all lawmakers to understand how much money NIH wastes. Please sign our petition to your members of Congress urging them to introduce legislation enacting Research Modernization NOW—you can help end cruel, useless experiments on animals and hype modern, non-animal research methods. 👏👏👏