Thing is, PETA is right about a lot of things. It's just that they're so extreme about how they present things that it diminishes what truth they had when they started out with whatever investigation or article they write.
PETA
uncovered some abuse at a contract research laboratory that many of the big animal pharmaceuticals-including my employer- hire for testing of products such as tick and flea medications.
It was horrible. We all like to think that it could never happen in our labs, but sometimes you just don't know about someone when you hire them. The result in my workplace is that all contract research organizations now have to be audited before we will enter into a contract with them, regardless of whatever certification the lab might have.
Even still, we'll never be able to catch everything. And though I haven't heard anyone admit this within the industry, I personally think that despite the inflammatory nature and heated rhetoric of PETA, the work they do does lead to improvements in animal welfare, and thus PETA is not a wholly negative organization even from a corporate animal health company perspective.
Come to think of it though, I remember a colleague from one of our facilities on the other side of the world saying something like they have an open door policy. They let PETA come in, and they can look at the books, watch the technicians handling animals, because that site has one of the highest seals of approval you can get, from Temple Grandin.
