Head of Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit and PETA help an online meeting to deliberate on the introduction of modern veterinary and biomedical research, training for the protection of animals and approaches to wildlife protection.
The world’s largest animal right organization – the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) top officials Ingrid Newkirk, Founder and President and Shalin Gala, Vice President held an online meeting with Salman Sufi, Head of Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit. Following potential collaboration topics were discuss in the meeting:
- Helping provinces and universities transition to using more effective, ethical, and economical non-animal simulation models for veterinary education to replace the cruel kidnapping and killing of dogs and other animals for such training.
- Implementing an education program to help people better appreciate how to share the world with animals and care for them.
- Assisting with repatriation efforts for non-native species who have been cruelly trafficked into Pakistan to be kept as household pets and decorations.
PETA also mentioned in its statement that it “will be sending follow-up information to Mr. Sufi for his consideration in implementing other strategic important reforms, including replacing the use of animals in medical training, classroom dissection exercises, and biomedical research with superior, state-of-the-art methods, as well as setting up a national non-animal research methods database and working to implement PETA’s Research Modernization Deal in Pakistan”.
PETA is an international nonprofit charitable organization based in Virginia, USA, with entities all around the world. It was founded in 1980 and is dedicated to establishing and defending the rights of all animals while working under the simple principle that “animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way”.