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Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo regarding the critical violation posted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against the University of Kansas Medical Center after a monkey died during surgery:

Leaving a sentient being lying prone on a surgical table, unconscious and entirely helpless, in the hands of an untrained and unqualified assistant is reckless beyond the pale, and the resulting death was unfortunately predictable. According to a just-posted report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a vervet monkey who was undergoing surgery to implant a head cap—a steel plate on the monkey’s skull—died after being left for 90 minutes in the hands of an untrained resident assistant. A surgeon and an assistant began the procedure, but the surgeon left after an hour. Less than 30 minutes later, complications arose that the assistant couldn’t handle. It was “assumed,” the report says, that the ventilator doing the monkey’s breathing for him was placed properly. But the monkey’s oxygen levels fell, and eventually his pulse was lost. The animal died, likely because of an improperly placed ventilator tube, the report says.

This gross incompetence does not deserve to be rewarded with taxpayer money. In a complaint filed today, PETA has asked the National Institutes of Health to cancel all federal funding of this facility.

The University of Kansas should redirect its resources toward modern, non-animal research methods that will actually help humans, and we urge officials there to adopt PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.

For more information on 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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New University of Massachusetts (UMass) Chancellor Javier Reyes will receive an unusual welcome gift from PETA today: a boxful of appeals to end the school’s cruel and unnecessary menopause experiments on marmosets.

The package includes a plush marmoset dubbed “Anakin” wearing a QR code that links to the story of the real Anakin—a marmoset who was abused and killed in experimenter Agnès Lacreuse’s lab—an infographic about the experiments, a scientific critique by PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe, an image of a marmoset imprisoned by Lacreuse, and sticky notes that say, “Don’t forget to shut down the monkey lab!”

UMass experimenters screw electrodes onto monkeys’ skulls, cut into their necks, deprive them of water, restrain them for hours at a time, and torment them in various other ways, purportedly to study menopause—which marmosets don’t even experience. To simulate menopause, experimenters surgically remove the monkeys’ ovaries, administer hormone-manipulating drugs, and use hand warmers on their bodies to mimic hot flashes.

“Zip-tying tiny monkeys into restraints and cutting them open to study a condition that doesn’t affect them is as absurd as it is barbaric,” says PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “PETA is calling on Chancellor Reyes to use the ‘uncommon vision’ with which he is credited to end the pointless torment of marmosets at UMass and embrace modern, animal-free research that is actually relevant to humans.”

UMass’ extensive history of animal welfare violations includes severely burning a monkey—who died three days later—with hand warmers, failing to alert an attending veterinarian to sick animals, and permitting a monkey to escape, then injuring the animal’s tail so badly during recapture that it had to be amputated.

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 offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the recovery of the group’s “Hell on Wheels” life-size chicken transport truck, which appears to have been stolen from the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood on the night of Monday, July 3, or the morning of Tuesday, July 4. A police report has been filed. PETA will also provide a year’s supply of an array of delicious vegan chicken to tipsters whose information leads to the truck’s location.

The 2016 Ford E-350 Super Duty Box Truck—with Virginia license plate number VHA5528—is hard to miss: It’s white and covered with images of real chickens crammed into crates on their way to a slaughterhouse. The group is on a tour, driving the truck to cities around the U.S., where it has circled eateries blasting actual recorded sounds of the birds’ cries and a subliminal message every 10 seconds suggesting that people go vegan. The cab has large decals that read, “Hell on Wheels,” with a logo of a chef holding a dead chicken.

“The ‘Hell on Wheels’ truck encourages people to go vegan by showing them the horrific suffering endured by birds destined for slaughter, and for it to have vanished is extremely upsetting,” says PETA Vice President Tracy Reiman. “If you know who took the truck or where it may be, PETA wants to hear from you so we can get our lifesaving message back on the road.”

“Hell on Wheels” was in the Portland area to honor the hundreds of birds who died after a transporter carrying them overturned on I-5—prompting PETA and Direct Action Everywhere to report to the scene and rescue one lucky bird survivor.

Tips can be submitted to Info@peta.org or by calling the Portland Police Bureau at 503-823-0000 using case number 23-175631.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and offers a free vegan starter kit on its website. 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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