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PETA reveals in a letter today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Charles River Laboratories—which faces ongoing civil and criminal investigations for its possible violations of monkey-importation laws—a staggering $280 million in taxpayer money since 2018 to run multiple laboratories, conduct experiments on animals, and more. In its letter to NIH, PETA urges the agency to reconsider these contracts and pay, along with Charles River, for the lifetime sanctuary care of the 1,000 monkeys the company reportedly brought into the U.S. illegally, whose fate remains uncertain.

“PETA is calling on NIH to reconsider all contracts with Charles River and send the 1,000 monkeys whose fate hangs in the balance to an accredited sanctuary so they can’t be returned to the monkey-smuggling pipeline,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo.

Charles River is responsible for operating part of NIH’s Animal Center campus in Poolesville, Maryland, where hundreds of monkeys are housed and experimented on. The company also runs multiple National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases laboratories in which experiments on ferrets, rabbits, primates, chickens, ducks, mice, and other rodents are conducted in Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana.

PETA’s letter cites serious issues with Charles River’s oversight, including the escape of a monkey infected with tuberculosis into the laboratory’s HVAC system, posing a threat to humans. The company further admits that imported monkeys may carry dangerous diseases that are transmissible to humans. NIH labs run by Charles River have had multiple animal welfare violations that resulted in the deaths of animals.

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued indictments against Cambodian officials and nationals for allegedly selling monkeys abducted from their forest homes. Like the monkeys caught up in the laundering scheme alleged in the indictments, the origin of the 1,000 monkeys in Charles River’s hands appears to be under investigation.

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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On Friday, PETA supporters and members of Peoria Area Voices for Animals will unfurl a giant “Twenty Twenty-We” banner on the W. Closen Road bridge over I-474 urging everyone to make 2023 the beginning of the end for human supremacy. The unmissable plea features an image of a woman alongside faces of other animals in an effort to tackle speciesism, the archaic belief that other species exist solely for humans to eat and exploit.

When:    Friday, April 28, 4 p.m.

Where:    W. Closen Road bridge between S. Clarence Place and S. Byron Court, Bellevue

“All animals feel pain and fear, desire freedom, love their offspring, have unique personalities, and value their own lives,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA’s campaign is a reminder that animals are someone, not something, and ending speciesism means making kind choices for animals at the market and beyond.”

Despite animals’ extraordinary talents, abilities, and intelligence, people use them as experimentation tools, food, clothing, or playthings because of speciesism. Not only does this mentality contribute to the deaths of billions of animals each year, it also accelerates the climate catastrophe and the spread of zoonotic diseases. To combat speciesism, PETA encourages everyone to buy only cosmetics and household products never tested on animals, eat and wear vegan, and avoid aquariums, roadside zoos, and circuses that have live-animal acts.

PETA’s motto reads, “Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.”

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Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo regarding recent horse deaths at Laurel Park racetrack and the Maryland Racing Commission meeting this morning to discuss an assessment of the safety of the track:

The horsemen and state officials clamoring for an independent review of the dirt track at Laurel Park are pretending that they don’t know which surface is the safest, but everyone in racing knows: It’s not dirt—it’s synthetic. Statistics consistently show, year after year, that the death rate on synthetic tracks is significantly lower than on any other surface. Every track in the U.S., including Laurel, should convert to synthetic immediately. If they don’t, they’re willfully allowing horses to die, and die badly.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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