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October 6, 2023
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Covington, Los angeles. – Please see the next commentary from PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel in regards to the citations, together with one vital repeat violation, posted by means of the U.S. Division of Agriculture towards the Tulane Nationwide Primate Analysis Heart for its violations of federal animal welfare rules:
Group of workers on the Tulane Nationwide Primate Analysis Heart proceed to make a water-tight case for shutting down this wretched facility, which flushes taxpayer cash down the bathroom each day and endangers the monkeys it imprisons with unchecked incompetence.
U.S. Division of Agriculture inspectors discovered useless rats at the floor and within the ceilings together with rat poison in outside primate enclosures, in line with a just-posted record. The out of doors enclosures are suffering from damaged plastic barrels, fence posts, and damaged panels within the overgrown weeds simply out of doors the breeding facility, the place Canada ducks have nested—and group of workers have failed to wash up their waste. In line with the record, 4 monkeys in simply the previous 3 months have got caught within the webbing of the enclosures, one requiring surgical treatment.
Tulane is likely one of the seven nationwide primate analysis facilities that need $30 million extra in taxpayer investment in a invoice into consideration within the U.S. Senate, however they obviously don’t deserve a unmarried penny of the cash they already get. Assets must be directed towards fashionable, non-animal analysis strategies, and we urge officers to undertake PETA’s Analysis Modernization Deal.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more info, please consult with PETA.org, concentrate to The PETA Podcast, or observe the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.