Action Alerts

CAARE has uncovered deeply disturbing, horrific experiments on cats at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). According to federal documents obtained by CAARE from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Pitt researchers are filling cats’ bladders with acetic acid to damage the delicate lining of the bladder wall, and then implanting their spines with electrodes.

Mice are tiny, intelligent mammals with a rich and complex social system. In recent years, scientists have published numerous studies demonstrating that mice communicate using an intricate array of sounds, akin to birds and whales. Most of these occur in the ultrasonic range, higher than the human ear can detect.

Though this knowledge should increase respect for mice as sentient beings, in the world of animal experimentation, this means more and crueler ways to abuse them. CAARE has uncovered experiments at Cornell University that examine the brain pathways of mouse sounds, including electrically shocking them until they cry out in distress.

Please join CAARE in opposing this senseless cruelty by sending a letter to decision makers to stop these painful and needless experiments at Cornell.

In a stunning and disappointing decision, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has announced that it has reversed its prior commitment to end all testing on vertebrate animals by 2035.

Abominable experiments on female rats are being carried out at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to purportedly study how prolonged labor can cause muscle injury to reproductive and neighboring organs, like the bowel and bladder.

In response to deeply disturbing and antiquated sensory deprivation experiments on baby monkeys at Harvard Medical School, CAARE has submitted a complaint to two federal oversight agencies to investigate.

The fate of approximately 1,000 long-tailed macaque monkeys hangs in the balance and we urgently need your voice to help save them.

Elon Musk’s medical device company, Neuralink, has once again come under fire for apparent egregious animal-welfare violations. Earlier this year, the company was exposed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine for botched procedures on monkeys that led to prolonged agony and death. Now Neuralink staff members have alerted the press that animals again needlessly suffered and died because animal testing is being rushed. 

The forced swim test is an abhorrent experiment that uses animals to study depression in humans. The test has been duly criticized as being exceptionally cruel and of limited applicability to human depression. It involves trapping mice and rats in inescapable cylinders of water and observing them while they struggle to stay afloat, with the dubious assumption that those who “give up” are depressed.

In an amazing achievement last month, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 (S.5002) to end the FDA’s mandate for animal testing of all new drugs.

Now we must work to get this landmark bill to the House floor for a vote before the end of the year. The bill previously passed in the House (H.R. 2565) but must be voted on again in the House to reconcile it with the bill passed by the Senate.

As the Congressional year winds down, the fate of the FDA Modernization Act could soon be decided. This landmark bill would allow drug developers to apply for FDA approval without relying on outdated animal tests.