Kategorie: Animals

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After PETA filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over systemic, acute animal suffering, disease issues, and violations of state law at the federally funded University of Washington’s Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare has launched an investigation into the facility.

PETA demanded action after a scathing exposé in The Arizona Republic revealed that the WaNPRC and its breeding facility in Mesa, Arizona, sent diseased monkeys to experimenters at Seattle and across the country. The article reveals that the WaNPRC violated animal health and importation regulations, operated its Arizona breeding facility without state oversight, failed to prevent the introduction and spread of deadly diseases among monkeys, and has been repeatedly cited for multiple violations of animal welfare laws—all while breeding monkeys next to a toxic waste site.

“Even the most cursory investigation reveals that there’s something rotten at the WaNPRC, and science and the monkeys are suffering because of it,” says PETA primate scientist and former WaNPRC researcher Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “PETA is calling on feds to stop funding this laboratory and its breeding facility. It is time to end the animal suffering and embark on a new era of scientific rigor.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—welcomes the investigation but notes that NIH officials have known about the problems at the WaNPRC for years and have continued to use taxpayer dollars to fund experiments that its own scientists acknowledge were tainted by the unintended infections ravaging the monkeys.

In addition to contracting infections resulting from exposure to fungus in the soil and pathogens transmitted in feces, monkeys at the WaNPRC have strangled, died of thirst, been mauled by other animals, and choked to death on their own vomit. Internal documents obtained by PETA reveal that in one recent eight-month period, the center had to treat a staggering 332 traumatic injuries.

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A choir of PETA supporters—some wearing sweaters featuring a stuffed mutilated sheep protruding from the front and back—will gather near the Crown Center Square fountain on Wednesday to urge passersby to shop for only vegan clothing and gifts and never buy wool. They’ll treat the crowd to a delightful concert of classic Christmas carols with a twist—including “Violent Night” and “Let Wool Go, Let It Go.”

When:    Wednesday, December 22, 12 noon

Where:    2405 Grand Blvd., near the Crown Center Square fountain, Kansas City, Missouri

“One PETA exposé after another has revealed that gentle sheep are beaten bloody for wool sweaters, coats, hats, and scarves,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Holiday shoppers can extend the season’s spirit of goodwill to all by leaving wool right where it belongs: on its original owners.”

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

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Please see the following statement from PETA Foundation Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Animal Law Jared Goodman in response to reports that the lease takeover of the Miami Seaquarium is on hold as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investigates the outfit following the recent deaths of Catalina (the third dolphin to die of apparent trauma sustained causes there since 2019), a harbor seal named Coral who died of a chronic infection, and a manatee who died of starvation:

How many more animals need to die before the Miami Seaquarium calls it quits? This abusement park keeps shamelessly shoving incompatible animals into the orca Lolita’s abysmally small tank, which has now apparently led to Catalina the dolphin’s death. PETA welcomes the USDA’s investigation but warns that animals at the Miami Seaquarium will continue to suffer and die until the owners of this callous, exploitative operation finally release them to seaside sanctuaries.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—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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