‘Suffering Baby Monkeys’ to Haunt Harvard Med School Leadership at Town Hall

For Immediate Release:
November 20, 2024

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Boston –

PETA supporters will converge outside the Armenise Amphitheater on Thursday, holding giant images of monkeys trapped in laboratories and signs reading, “Harvard’s Margaret Livingstone Kidnaps Babies,” as Harvard Medical School’s elites gather inside for an all-staff town hall meeting.

The action is part of PETA’s campaign urging the school to shut down Livingstone’s shockingly cruel experiments on baby monkeys. Livingstone has torn infants away from their mothers, forced them to wear goggles simulating disorienting strobe lights for 12 hours a day, and implanted electrodes in their brains. She’s even sewn some monkeys’ eyes shut. After years of torment, she kills and dissects many of the animals.

“Margaret Livingstone has put infant monkeys through hell for decades and collected more than $33 million in taxpayer money without producing a single treatment or cure for humans,” says PETA Chief Scientist Dr. Katherine Roe. “PETA calls for an end to this despicable sham and for Harvard to invest in animal-free research that actually helps humans.”

Where: Outside the Armenise Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, 210 Longwood Ave., Boston

When: Thursday, November 21, 2 p.m.

*Like this monkey, infant monkeys in Livingstone’s laboratory are caged alone. Photo: PETA*

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.