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Please see the following statement by PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding Duke University’s recent violations of animal welfare regulations, including the apparent deaths of two puppies and the failure to feed pigs for an entire weekend:

It’s stunning that Duke University employees starved pigs over an entire weekend and couldn’t even manage to get a veterinarian to assist a dog with a difficult birth. According to the inspection report, an experimenter’s failure “may have led to the loss of two of the four pups.” Duke—which received more than $731 million last year from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—is unable or unwilling to comply with minimum animal welfare laws. PETA has filed a complaint with NIH, calling on it to turn off the money spigot to the school.

Last year, Duke used tens of thousands of animals in its laboratories, including 677 rabbits, 317 hamsters, 182 monkeys, 173 ferrets, 28 dogs, and four cats. According to federal reports, 1,433 animals in Duke’s laboratories were used in painful experiments and of these, 366 weren’t given adequate pain relief. These animals feel pain and value their lives just as much as any Duke employee, so the university would do well to modernize its research program by leaving cruel and archaic experiments on animals behind and using only sophisticated, human-relevant research methods instead. 

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Right now and for the next month, sightseers aboard the Seattle Center Monorail will get an eyeful of more than just the Space Needle. Ten screens at the Seattle Center station are displaying can’t-be-missed messages calling for an end to cruel monkey experiments, such as those conducted at the University of Washington (UW). The 10 displays follow recent news that animal experimentation is largely to blame for two species of macaques’ new endangered status—highlighting the urgent need for UW to stop using and importing monkeys.

The ads are located at 370 Thomas St., less than a mile away from the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) at UW.

“Monorail riders will be horrified to learn that Seattle is home to a secretive underground laboratory that cuts into endangered monkeys’ skulls, sickens the animals with diseases, and takes babies from their mothers,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “UW must shut this hellscape down and stop pushing monkeys to the brink of extinction.”

The WaNPRC is plagued by controversy—including multiple serious violations of federal animal protection laws and state animal health and import regulations as well as disease and toxic waste exposures at its breeding facility in Arizona. Experimenters have left needles, gauze, and other surgical equipment inside monkeys’ bodies, infant monkeys have died from undiagnosed diseases and malnourishment, and staff have admitted to destroying data. These horrors and more are why PETA advocates for a shift away from cruel and archaic experiments on animals and toward humane, modern research methods, as detailed in its Research Modernization Deal.

Additional information about UW and the WaNPRC’s lengthy history of documented federal Animal Welfare Act violations is available here.

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A Hero to Animals Award from PETA is on its way to Kara Long, a senior at the University of California–Davis and an organizer for her school’s Students Opposing Speciesism (SOS) hub, for her commitment to exposing wrongdoing at and shutting down the notorious California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) affiliated with UC-Davis. Thousands of monkeys—including ones who may be just hours old—are psychologically traumatized, infected with deadly viruses, inflicted with painful diseases, and killed in the center’s cruel and wasteful experiments.

Long, a longtime vegan because of her belief that all animals deserve to be treated with respect, teamed up with PETA to start a petition now signed by over 62,500 people calling on UC-Davis to stop experimenting on animals, hosted an on-campus protest featuring students wearing monkey costumes in cages, and gave a presentation to the student senate that persuaded it to pass a resolution condemning the CNPRC’s many animal welfare violations and demanding that the center replace its monkey tests with modern, non-animal research methods.

“The monkeys tormented inside the CNPRC have an indefatigable ally in Kara Long,” says PETA Senior Director of SOS Rachelle Owen. “PETA salutes her for her unwavering commitment to exposing and ending monkeys’ suffering and for advocating for a world free from shameful animal experiments. She will keep going until this hellhole is out of the monkey-torturing business.”

Macaques at the CNPRC are purposely kept thirsty to compel them to comply with experimenters in exchange for a few drops of water or juice. Experimenters have strapped masks onto monkeys’ heads and forced them to breathe in toxic inhalants. In another study, macaques were infected with SIV, a primate virus that has failed to be a surrogate model for HIV infection, leading to severe and painful symptoms—including weight loss, tremors, and skin lesions. They were all killed and dissected.

SOS is a PETA-backed, youth-led revolt against speciesism, the archaic belief that other animals are inferior and exist solely for humans to exploit.

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