President-elect Donald J. Trump is serious about eliminating government waste, and PETA knows a great place to start.
Today, we’re sending a mobile billboard to circle Mar-a-Lago urging him to slash the bloated budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
We’re pulling no punches. The billboard reads, “President Trump: NIH Doesn’t Give a Rat’s A** About Waste. Cut $23 Billion!”
NIH spends nearly half its annual budget—or about $23 billion in 2023—on experiments on animals, which overwhelmingly do not lead to treatments or cures for humans.
The facts: 90% of basic research, most of which involves experiments on animals, fails to lead to effective treatments for humans, and 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals eventually fail in human trials, sometimes causing severe side effects such as anaphylaxis or even death.
Not only do experiments on animals nearly always fail to advance human health, they also make you question your humanity. Take, for instance, the heinous sensory deprivation experiments of Margaret Livingstone or Elisabeth Murray’s career-long scrambling of monkeys’ brains.
At the National Institute of Mental Health’s 75th anniversary symposium, PETA demanded an end to taxpayer-funded tests like those of Elisabeth Murray, in which she scares monkeys with fake but realistic-looking spiders. Take action at PETA.org/Taxes.
Neither of these experimenters has produced a cure or treatment for humans, but they have leached tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers to bankroll their continuing atrocities.
Do you want to talk about government waste? There it is, right in front of us.
Message to RFK Jr.
We’re letting Trump’s pick to helm the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees NIH, know about the waste, too.
Research Modernization Now
PETA has developed a groundbreaking plan, the Research Modernization Deal, that can assist the incoming Trump administration with curbing NIH’s reckless waste of tax dollars.
PETA’s plan is a roadmap to phase out the use of animals in biomedical research, and it details the evidence for why this must be done. It outlines a strategy to implement superior, animal-friendly technology, such as organs-on-chips, advanced computer-modeling techniques, and in vitro methods that use human cells and tissues.
What You Can Do
If you’re a U.S. resident, please urge your representatives to support PETA’s Research Modernization Deal:
No matter where you live, please urge the director of NIH’s BRAIN Initiative to pull the plug on Livingstone’s twisted vision-manipulation experiments on baby monkeys:
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