The NIH has halted funding for animal-only studies, promoting humane, cutting-edge research methods instead.
In a groundbreaking move that will modernize science and spare millions of animals from miserable lives and deaths in laboratories, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced it will no longer allow funding opportunities for animal-only studies!
This means that when NIH is seeking proposals to fund, it will say no to all that propose only experiments on animals.
PETA scientists, researchers, campaigners, and supporters have worked long and hard for this day, from undercover investigations and campaigns that shut down laboratories and ended funding for experiments, to working with regulators and scientists around the world to develop and approve non-animal methods, and more.
We thank NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer, whom PETA has long supported, for listening and moving the U.S. into the 21st century of science. The message to researchers is clear: We know experiments on animals aren’t taking us where we need to go, so we must use state-of-the-art non-animal methods.
As Dr. Kleinstreuer stated in NIH’s announcement: “[W]e’re creating the policy, infrastructure, and partnerships … so that we’re not just shutting down animal labs overnight, we’re actually developing long term solutions that ensure that there are no new animal labs that open up in their place.”
Original source: PETA
https://www.animalagricultureclimatechange.org/animal-testing-stopped/
