Austin, Dec. 9 -- Spiking COVID-19 cases are compromising Texas' reopening plan, and PETA is calling on the governor and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to cut cruel animal experiments statewide-starting with tests on animals, many of whom institutions deemed to be non-essential in response to the pandemic-and protect human health by having staff not come into laboratories to conduct worthless experiments.
In its letter, PETA points out that during the initial COVID-19 shutdown, universities in Texas issued guidance deeming many of their experiments-and the animals used in them-extraneous, which resulted in the apparent euthanasia of numerous animals in their laboratories, including the following:
Baylor University asked it...