Boob Jobs on Baby Rats, Brain Damage in Pigs—This Is Ivy League Science?

Ivy League universities have long touted themselves as elite institutions with high research standards, but there's one big problem: They all subject animals to gruesome, deadly, and pointless experiments.

Still, for decades, these universities have loudly claimed their commitment to "replacing, reducing, and refining" the use of animals in experiments, something known as the 3Rs principle, while quietly brain-damaging pigs, punching holes in rabbits' jaws, and more.

PETA challenges all eight of the U.S.'s Ivy Leagues: Prove your commitment, because there seems to be no evidence that it is real.

The Ivy Leagues collectively gobbled up more than $1 BILLION in funding from the National Institutes of Health for experiments on animals in 2024 alone.

Unfortunately, it looks like universities are using their supposed commitment to the 3Rs as a smokescreen to placate the public while they continue to harm and kill monkeys, pigs, rabbits, rats, mice, and others in their laboratories. Here is just one of many examples:

Cornell University experimenters gave week-old female rats boob jobs by cutting open their backs. The rats suffered miniature human breast implants that moved, rotated, or flipped for 12 weeks before experimenters killed and dissected them. Others forced mice to binge on alcohol for months, while limiting their access to water, and subjected them to the cruel tail suspension and forced swim tests.

Experiments on animals are bad science and have no place at institutions of higher learning. Studies show that 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, fails to lead to treatments for humans, while 95% of new drugs that test safe and effective in animals later fail in humans.

Please take action today and encourage Ivy League universities to prove their commitment to the 3Rs principle and move toward compassionate and effective non-animal research.