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PETA supporters wearing monkey masks and holding signs bearing photos of the experimentation industry’s primate victims will gather outside the U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday, demanding that Secretary Deb Haaland act on the fate of 1,000 monkeys brought from Cambodia by Charles River Laboratories, possibly illegally, who for months have been held in legal limbo.

When:    Friday, July 21, 12 noon

Where:    Outside the Department of the Interior, 1849 C St. N.W. (between 18^th Street N.W. and Virginia Avenue N.W.), Washington

Charles River couldn’t prove that the long-tailed macaques, an endangered species, hadn’t been abducted from their forest homes instead of bred in captivity, so they were prevented from being sold to experimenters. They’ve since been held at Charles River facilities. PETA is calling on Haaland to release them to a sanctuary and compel the company to pay for their lifetime care.

PETA isn’t the only one concerned with the shady business practices of Charles River, which faces ongoing civil and criminal investigations for possible violations of monkey-importation laws. More than one-third of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal submitted by PETA asking Charles River to disclose the origin of all nonhuman primates imported by the company, an extraordinarily high number for a proposal brought by shareholder activists.

“Every day these young monkeys remain confined, likely alone, in small steel cages at Charles River harms their physical and mental condition,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “PETA is calling on Haaland to move quickly to get these desperate monkeys to a sanctuary and to finance their lifelong care.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is urging the University of California–San Diego (UCSD) to stop conducting agonizing and ineffective decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity experiments on rats for the U.S. Navy, which bankrolls the tests with more than $1 million in taxpayer funds.

In UCSD experimenter Peter Lindholm’s tests, rats are forced to run on a treadmill for an hour and a half and are electroshocked if they can’t keep up. He also confines them to a decompression chamber for up to 45 minutes at a time to induce the “bends,” attaches a breathing device to their face, and forces them to inhale pure oxygen and radioactive nitrogen.

The Navy also funds decompression studies at Duke University and the universities of Maryland and South Florida. PETA sent letters to the leadership at these institutions urging them to stop conducting the tests and to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that many non-animal research methods are more applicable to humans, including in vitro studies, reanalysis of existing human diver data, machine-learning techniques, and computer modeling. Decompression sickness, commonly called “the bends,” and oxygen toxicity affect species in disparate ways because of major physiological differences between them.

“The Navy can’t claim to be a world leader as long as it continues tormenting animals in barbaric decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity tests that it knows are irrelevant to human health,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on UCSD and secretaries Austin and Del Toro to switch to superior, human-relevant methods, as France and the U.K. have done, and stop wasting taxpayers’ money and animals’ lives.”

Last year, the Navy ended its funding of decompression tests conducted on sheep at the University of Wisconsin–Madison up to two years ahead of schedule following a PETA appeal to Del Toro that was cosigned by retired Rear Admiral Dr. Marion Balsam.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is urging the University of South Florida (USF) to stop conducting agonizing and ineffective decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity experiments on rats for the U.S. Navy, which bankrolls the tests with more than $1 million in taxpayer funds.

In USF experimenter Jay Dean’s tests, rats’ abdomens are cut open, a recording device and battery are embedded inside them, and wires are forced through their back, neck, and skull. He also induces seizures in the rats without providing pain relief, drills into their skulls, and attaches electrodes to their heads before killing them.

The Navy also funds decompression studies at Duke University, the University of California–San Diego, and the University of Maryland. PETA sent letters to the leadership at these institutions urging them to stop conducting the tests and to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that many non-animal research methods are more applicable to humans, including in vitro studies, reanalysis of existing human diver data, machine-learning techniques, and computer modeling. Decompression sickness, commonly called “the bends,” and oxygen toxicity affect species in disparate ways because of major physiological differences between them.

“The Navy can’t claim to be a world leader as long as it continues tormenting animals in barbaric decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity tests that it knows are irrelevant to human health,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on USF and secretaries Austin and Del Toro to switch to superior, human-relevant methods, as France and the U.K. have done, and stop wasting taxpayers’ money and animals’ lives.”

Last year, the Navy ended its funding of decompression tests conducted on sheep at the University of Wisconsin–Madison up to two years ahead of schedule following a PETA appeal to Del Toro that was cosigned by retired Rear Admiral Dr. Marion Balsam.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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PETA is urging the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to stop its agonizing and ineffective decompression sickness experiments conducted on mice for the U.S. Navy, which bankrolls the tests with nearly $1 million in taxpayer funds.

In UMB experimenter Stephen Thom’s tests, over 2,000 mice are confined to a decompression chamber for up to two hours at a time to induce the “bends.” He also inserts probes into their rectums, puts petroleum-based chemicals into their eyes, drills into their skulls, injects chemicals into their brains, and forces them into carbon dioxide gas chambers. The mice are ultimately killed by being bled to death.

The Navy also funds decompression studies at Duke University and the universities of San Diego and South Florida. PETA sent letters to the leadership at these institutions urging them to stop conducting the tests and to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro noting that many non-animal research methods are more applicable to humans, including in vitro studies, reanalysis of existing human diver data, machine-learning techniques, and computer modeling. Decompression sickness, commonly called “the bends,” and oxygen toxicity affect species in disparate ways because of major physiological differences between them.

“The Navy can’t claim to be a world leader as long as it continues tormenting animals in barbaric decompression sickness and oxygen toxicity tests that it knows are irrelevant to human health,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on UMB and secretaries Austin and Del Toro to switch to superior, human-relevant methods, as France and the U.K. have done, and stop wasting taxpayers’ money and animals’ lives.”

Last year, the Navy ended its funding of decompression tests conducted on sheep at the University of Wisconsin–Madison up to two years ahead of schedule following a PETA appeal to Del Toro that was cosigned by retired Rear Admiral Dr. Marion Balsam.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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