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Marmoset experiments at UMass
PETA Calls For Investigation After UMass Fails to Report Marmoset Escape to Feds

Marmoset monkeys at UMass were physically harmed on multiple occasions as a result of employees’ improper handling. PETA is calling for action.

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Washington National Primate Research Center at the University of Washington
Dozens of Dead Monkeys: PETA Uncovers Horrors in WaNPRC Necropsy Reports

Needles and gauze left inside monkeys and dead baby monkeys. PETA uncovers horrors incompetence at the Washington National Primate Research Center. PETA demands action.

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Get the 30th Anniversary Edition of Ingrid Newkirk’s ‘Free the Animals’ Today: Available on Audible Now

Order the newly expanded special edition of “Free the Animals”—with thrilling real-life backstories of the most daring animal rescues in U.S. history.

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Starvation, Isolation, Surgeries, Restraint: This Is Sam Smith’s Story

Circling, rocking, ripping out his own hair—Sam Smith the monkey is suffering in an NIH laboratory. Take action to help him today.

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Bad Science and Bad Ethics: NIH’s Monkey Fright Experiments Have It All!

A new study confirms what PETA has been saying all along: Government experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s cruel and deadly experiments on monkeys are useless.

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Companies Cited After PETA Uncovers Monkeys Illegally Shipped Across the U.S., Destined for Torment in Labs

We caught infamous Worldwide Primates violating a law meant to protect the public. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has acted.

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Victory! Kikkoman Stops Funding UW-Madison’s Cruel Tests on Animals

After a plea from PETA, the world’s top soy sauce maker will stop funding tests on animals conducted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Urge others to follow!

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Food Bowls Caked With Crud and Cats’ Skulls Cut Open at Wake Forest

Among other horrors PETA uncovered in laboratories at Wake Forest, one monkey was left dangling by his neck and underarms.

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PETA Calls On Feds: Cut Funding to Monkey Laboratories Amid Chagas Disease Risk

In addition to being cesspools of suffering, monkey breeding and experimentation facilities have failed to address or even admit the potential public health threats that they pose.

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Mother and baby Rhesus Macaque
‘A Major Threat to Primate Conservation’—Experts Condemn Kidnapping Other Primates for Experimentation

The International Primatological Society issued a groundbreaking statement against kidnapping our fellow primates for experimentation. Tell airlines to stop fueling this cruel trade!

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Photos: Texas A&M Did THIS to Dogs—Demand That It Free the Survivors!

Look at what they did to golden retrievers. Texas A&M restrained puppies and subjected them to frightening tests. Demand that the university keep its promise and release the nine survivors today!

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A Mouse Caught Fire During an Experiment at Baylor College of Medicine

PETA has uncovered more violations in Baylor College of Medicine’s laboratories. Mice were fatally scalded in a cage washer, set on fire during surgery, and denied pain relief.

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PETA’s ‘Operation’ Spin-Off Reveals Why Animal Experiments Aren’t a Game

It’s the reality show of board games! Watch the video of PETA’s shocking satirical Operation game spin-off and take action now.

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Emory University’s Lawyers Try to Scrub Reports of Animal Mistreatment

Emory University and the affiliated Yerkes National Primate Research Center are happy to take your tax dollars and violate federal laws, but they want to keep you in the dark.

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PETA Works to Make Sure Open Records Laws Protect Public’s Right to Know

Freedom of information laws can be the start of ending cruelty to animals used in labs. PETA won’t let publicly funded abuse go unseen by the public.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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