EPA sparing animals in new testing methods results in crickets from major animal rights group

Just the News ^ | June 3, 2026 | Amanda Head

[Twotone]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced steps this week to speed up efforts to replace animal testing with so-called "New Approach Methods" for chemical and pesticide safety checks, a historic move that would appear praiseworthy by groups such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), but the animal rights organization has so far been silent.

Another prominent animal rights group, however, praised the move.

Justin Goodman, senior vice president for White Coat Waste, told Just The News exclusively that one of the top priorities for his group was to get the Trump administration to reinstate the president's EPA’s landmark plan to eliminate animal testing and retire lab survivors that the Biden EPA quietly scrapped – a move his group exposed – while legacy animal rights groups gave them a pass.

"We're thrilled that under [EPA] Administrator Lee Zeldin's leadership, the agency is now moving full speed ahead to cut wasteful and cruel animal testing and send survivors to loving homes," he said after the EPA's announced changes Tuesday.

The move keeps pace with the agency's goal of completely terminating all mammalian animal testing by 2035 and is a continuation of plans launched during President Donald Trump’s first term that the Biden administration had put on hold.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: animaltesting; crickets; epa; leezeldin; peta

[dfwgator]

All these groups are subsidiaries of the DNC.

[j.havenfarm]

I keep seeing these videos on instagram of rescued beagles being adopted. You have to be one wicked SOB to participate in the atrocities they visited in these animals.