Infant Monkey’s Arm Broken, Amputated at Emory University: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
August 7, 2024

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding a just-posted U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report that cites Emory University for a critical violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act after an infant monkey escaped through a hole in a cage and broke his right arm, requiring amputation above the elbow. In a complaint to the National Institutes of Health, PETA urges the agency to investigate and eliminate Emory’s funding.

Emory University has once again demonstrated its ongoing inability to abide by federal law, and PETA is calling on the National Institutes of Health to cut funding to this lawbreaking institution with a shameful, yearslong rap sheet. Emory has proved incapable of keeping monkeys secure in their cages, maintaining their health, and protecting them from pathogens. Now an infant monkey has lost his arm because of the primate laboratory’s utter carelessness. The university should be barred from housing any monkeys in its facility and certainly shouldn’t be paid for doing it.

Emory received $485 million in tax funds last year alone—money the school should redirect toward non-animal research methods.

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