petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-08-31--PETA ‘Lobs’ a Bunch of Coconuts at Publix CEO

Publix Is One of Only a Few Still Selling Coconut Milk Brands That Uses Forced Monkey Labor Tampa , Fla. – Publix CEO Todd Jones will receive a special delivery this week , courtesy of PETA : A bunch of fresh , humanely obtained coconuts to remind him that selling products obtained through forced monkey labor is coco-nuts .
Even though monkeys in Thailand are chained in barren environments , separated from their peers , driven insane , and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for coconut milk sold by Chaokoh , Publix is one of the few holdouts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 25,000 stores around the world—including chains Walgreens , Giant , and Food Lion—have pledged not to sell coconut products obtained through monkey labor after PETA shared with them the cruelty uncovered in its exposé of this practice in the Thai coconut industry .
“ Coconuts are sweet , but the ways in which monkeys in Thailand are deprived and exploited to pick them is anything but , ” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk .
“ Smart , sensitive primates don ’ t deserve to be subjected to bitter lives of forced labor.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letters to the CEOs of Save Mart and Wegmans as well as the president of Woodman ’ s to ask them to reconsider their business relationship with Chaokoh .
PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to abuse in any way ” —opposes speciesism , which is a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .
Greetings from PETA .
I hope this message finds you well .
We ’ ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand ’ s coconut industry .
This investigation revealed that Chaokoh is complicit in an industry that ’ s forcing monkeys—confined for life , sometimes with their teeth removed , always on chains , and often driven insane from being deprived of everything that ’ s natural and important to them—to collect coconuts .
It seems that monkeys used in the coconut industry are illegally captured in their natural habitat as babies .
Then , they endure abusive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” which exploit the animals to entertain visitors through tricks such as riding bicycles and shooting basketballs .
Coercion is used to train them to pick coconuts , as they wouldn ’ t voluntarily do it .
The monkeys are isolated from their peers as they spend their lives chained , transported in cages , and forced to climb trees in order to collect coconuts .
The captive animals display stereotypic types of behavior , such as circling endlessly .
Similar abuse was found at all 13 randomly selected locations .
Chaokoh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sell .
Its refusal to take a position against cruelty to animals is not sitting well with ethical consumers , and your own current position stands in contrast to that of the more than 25,000 other stores that have pledged not to purchase products from any company that depends on forced monkey labor .
We ’ d love to work together to get coconut products involving such labor off your shelves .
May we please hear from you ?

Publix Is One of Only a Few Still Selling Coconut Milk Brands That Uses Forced Monkey Labor
For Immediate Release:
August 31, 2020
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Tampa, Fla. – Publix CEO Todd Jones will receive a special delivery this week, courtesy of PETA: A bunch of fresh, humanely obtained coconuts to remind him that selling products obtained through forced monkey labor is coco-nuts.
Even though monkeys in Thailand are chained in barren environments, separated from their peers, driven insane, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for coconut milk sold by Chaokoh, Publix is one of the few holdouts still selling the brand. More than 25,000 stores around the world—including chains Walgreens, Giant, and Food Lion—have pledged not to sell coconut products obtained through monkey labor after PETA shared with them the cruelty uncovered in its exposé of this practice in the Thai coconut industry.
“Coconuts are sweet, but the ways in which monkeys in Thailand are deprived and exploited to pick them is anything but,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Smart, sensitive primates don’t deserve to be subjected to bitter lives of forced labor.”
The group is also sending coconuts and letters to the CEOs of Save Mart and Wegmans as well as the president of Woodman’s to ask them to reconsider their business relationship with Chaokoh.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
PETA’s letter to Jones follows.
August 31, 2020
Randall Todd Jones
CEO
Publix
Dear Mr. Jones,
Greetings from PETA. I hope this message finds you well. We’ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about reconsidering your business relationship with Chaokoh, a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand’s coconut industry. This investigation revealed that Chaokoh is complicit in an industry that’s forcing monkeys—confined for life, sometimes with their teeth removed, always on chains, and often driven insane from being deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them—to collect coconuts.
It seems that monkeys used in the coconut industry are illegally captured in their natural habitat as babies. Then, they endure abusive training. Investigators visited “monkey schools,” which exploit the animals to entertain visitors through tricks such as riding bicycles and shooting basketballs. Coercion is used to train them to pick coconuts, as they wouldn’t voluntarily do it.
The monkeys are isolated from their peers as they spend their lives chained, transported in cages, and forced to climb trees in order to collect coconuts. The captive animals display stereotypic types of behavior, such as circling endlessly. Similar abuse was found at all 13 randomly selected locations.
Chaokoh produces coconuts for coconut milk that you sell. Its refusal to take a position against cruelty to animals is not sitting well with ethical consumers, and your own current position stands in contrast to that of the more than 25,000 other stores that have pledged not to purchase products from any company that depends on forced monkey labor.
We’d love to work together to get coconut products involving such labor off your shelves. May we please hear from you?
Sincerely,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-08-31--PETA ‘Lobs’ a Bunch of Coconuts at Save Mart CEO

Save Mart Is One of Only a Few Still Selling Coconut Milk Brand That Uses Forced Monkey Labor Modesto , Calif. – Save Mart CEO Nicole Pesco will receive a special delivery this week , courtesy of PETA : a bunch of fresh , humanely obtained coconuts to remind her that selling products obtained through forced monkey labor is coco-nuts .
Even though monkeys in Thailand are chained in barren environments , separated from their peers , driven insane , and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for coconut milk sold by Chaokoh , Save Mart is one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
More than 25,000 stores around the world—including chains Walgreens , Giant , and Food Lion—have pledged not to sell coconut products obtained through monkey labor after PETA shared with them the cruelty uncovered in its exposé of the practice in the Thai coconut industry .
“ Coconuts are sweet , but the ways monkeys in Thailand are deprived and exploited to pick them are anything but , ” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk .
“ Smart , sensitive primates don ’ t deserve to be subjected to bitter lives of forced labor.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and letters to the CEOs of Publix and Wegmans as well as the president of Woodman ’ s to ask them to reconsider their business relationship with Chaokoh .
PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to abuse in any way ” —opposes speciesism , which is a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .
Greetings from PETA .
I hope this message finds you well .
We ’ ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand ’ s coconut industry .
This investigation revealed that Chaokoh is complicit in an industry that ’ s forcing monkeys—confined for life , sometimes with their teeth removed , always on chains , and often driven insane from being deprived of everything that ’ s natural and important to them—to collect coconuts .
It seems that monkeys used in the coconut industry are illegally captured in their natural habitat as babies .
Then , they endure abusive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” which exploit the animals to entertain visitors through tricks such as riding bicycles and shooting basketballs .
Coercion is used to train them to pick coconuts , as they wouldn ’ t voluntarily do it .
The monkeys are isolated from their peers as they spend their lives chained , transported in cages , and forced to climb trees in order to collect coconuts .
The captive animals display stereotypic types of behavior , such as circling endlessly .
Similar abuse was found at all 13 randomly selected locations .
Chaokoh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sell .
Its refusal to take a position against cruelty to animals is not sitting well with ethical consumers , and your own current position stands in contrast to that of the more than 25,000 other stores that have pledged not to purchase products from any company that depends on forced monkey labor .
We ’ d love to work together to get coconut products involving such labor off your shelves .
May we please hear from you ?

Save Mart Is One of Only a Few Still Selling Coconut Milk Brand That Uses Forced Monkey Labor
For Immediate Release:
August 31, 2020
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Modesto, Calif. – Save Mart CEO Nicole Pesco will receive a special delivery this week, courtesy of PETA: a bunch of fresh, humanely obtained coconuts to remind her that selling products obtained through forced monkey labor is coco-nuts.
Even though monkeys in Thailand are chained in barren environments, separated from their peers, driven insane, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for coconut milk sold by Chaokoh, Save Mart is one of the few holdouts still selling the brand. More than 25,000 stores around the world—including chains Walgreens, Giant, and Food Lion—have pledged not to sell coconut products obtained through monkey labor after PETA shared with them the cruelty uncovered in its exposé of the practice in the Thai coconut industry.
“Coconuts are sweet, but the ways monkeys in Thailand are deprived and exploited to pick them are anything but,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Smart, sensitive primates don’t deserve to be subjected to bitter lives of forced labor.”
The group is also sending coconuts and letters to the CEOs of Publix and Wegmans as well as the president of Woodman’s to ask them to reconsider their business relationship with Chaokoh.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
PETA’s letter to Pesco follows.
August 31, 2020
Nicole Piccinini Pesco
CEO
Save Mart
Dear Ms. Pesco,
Greetings from PETA. I hope this message finds you well. We’ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about reconsidering your business relationship with Chaokoh, a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand’s coconut industry. This investigation revealed that Chaokoh is complicit in an industry that’s forcing monkeys—confined for life, sometimes with their teeth removed, always on chains, and often driven insane from being deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them—to collect coconuts.
It seems that monkeys used in the coconut industry are illegally captured in their natural habitat as babies. Then, they endure abusive training. Investigators visited “monkey schools,” which exploit the animals to entertain visitors through tricks such as riding bicycles and shooting basketballs. Coercion is used to train them to pick coconuts, as they wouldn’t voluntarily do it.
The monkeys are isolated from their peers as they spend their lives chained, transported in cages, and forced to climb trees in order to collect coconuts. The captive animals display stereotypic types of behavior, such as circling endlessly. Similar abuse was found at all 13 randomly selected locations.
Chaokoh produces coconuts for coconut milk that you sell. Its refusal to take a position against cruelty to animals is not sitting well with ethical consumers, and your own current position stands in contrast to that of the more than 25,000 other stores that have pledged not to purchase products from any company that depends on forced monkey labor.
We’d love to work together to get coconut products involving such labor off your shelves. May we please hear from you?
Sincerely,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-08-31--PETA ‘Lobs’ a Bunch of Coconuts at Wegmans CEO

Wegmans Is One of Only a Few Still Selling Coconut Milk Brand That Uses Forced Monkey Labor Rochester , N.Y. – Wegmans CEO Colleen Wegman will receive a special delivery this week , courtesy of PETA : A bunch of fresh , humanely obtained coconuts to remind her that selling products obtained through forced monkey labor is coco-nuts .
Even though monkeys in Thailand are chained in barren environments , separated from their peers , driven insane , and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for coconut milk sold by Chaokoh , Wegmans is one of the few holdouts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 25,000 stores around the world—including chains Walgreens , Giant , and Food Lion—have pledged not to sell coconut products obtained through monkey labor after PETA shared with them the cruelty uncovered in its exposé of this practice in the Thai coconut industry .
“ Coconuts are sweet , but the ways in which monkeys in Thailand are deprived and exploited to pick them is anything but , ” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk .
“ Smart , sensitive primates don ’ t deserve to be subjected to bitter lives of forced labor.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ letters to the CEOs of Save Mart and Publix as well as the president of Woodman ’ s to ask them to reconsider their business relationship with Chaokoh .
PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to abuse in any way ” —opposes speciesism , which is a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .
Greetings from PETA .
I hope this message finds you well .
We ’ ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand ’ s coconut industry .
This investigation revealed that Chaokoh is complicit in an industry that ’ s forcing monkeys—confined for life , sometimes with their teeth removed , always on chains , and often driven insane from being deprived of everything that ’ s natural and important to them—to collect coconuts .
It seems that monkeys used in the coconut industry are illegally captured in their natural habitat as babies .
Then , they endure abusive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” which exploit the animals to entertain visitors through tricks such as riding bicycles and shooting basketballs .
Coercion is used to train them to pick coconuts , as they wouldn ’ t voluntarily do it .
The monkeys are isolated from their peers as they spend their lives chained , transported in cages , and forced to climb trees in order to collect coconuts .
The captive animals display stereotypic types of behavior , such as circling endlessly .
Similar abuse was found at all 13 randomly selected locations .
Chaokoh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sell .
Its refusal to take a position against cruelty to animals is not sitting well with ethical consumers , and your own current position stands in contrast to that of the more than 25,000 other stores that have pledged not to purchase products from any company that depends on forced monkey labor .
We ’ d love to work together to get coconut products involving such labor off your shelves .
May we please hear from you ?

Wegmans Is One of Only a Few Still Selling Coconut Milk Brand That Uses Forced Monkey Labor
For Immediate Release:
August 31, 2020
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Rochester, N.Y. – Wegmans CEO Colleen Wegman will receive a special delivery this week, courtesy of PETA: A bunch of fresh, humanely obtained coconuts to remind her that selling products obtained through forced monkey labor is coco-nuts.
Even though monkeys in Thailand are chained in barren environments, separated from their peers, driven insane, and forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for coconut milk sold by Chaokoh, Wegmans is one of the few holdouts still selling the brand. More than 25,000 stores around the world—including chains Walgreens, Giant, and Food Lion—have pledged not to sell coconut products obtained through monkey labor after PETA shared with them the cruelty uncovered in its exposé of this practice in the Thai coconut industry.
“Coconuts are sweet, but the ways in which monkeys in Thailand are deprived and exploited to pick them is anything but,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Smart, sensitive primates don’t deserve to be subjected to bitter lives of forced labor.”
The group is also sending coconuts and letters to the CEOs of Save Mart and Publix as well as the president of Woodman’s to ask them to reconsider their business relationship with Chaokoh.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
PETA’s letter to Wegman follows.
August 31, 2020
Colleen Wegman
CEO
Wegmans
Dear Ms. Wegman,
Greetings from PETA. I hope this message finds you well. We’ve sent you these coconuts in the hope of cracking open some dialog about reconsidering your business relationship with Chaokoh, a brand sold by your company and implicated in a recent PETA Asia exposé of Thailand’s coconut industry. This investigation revealed that Chaokoh is complicit in an industry that’s forcing monkeys—confined for life, sometimes with their teeth removed, always on chains, and often driven insane from being deprived of everything that’s natural and important to them—to collect coconuts.
It seems that monkeys used in the coconut industry are illegally captured in their natural habitat as babies. Then, they endure abusive training. Investigators visited “monkey schools,” which exploit the animals to entertain visitors through tricks such as riding bicycles and shooting basketballs. Coercion is used to train them to pick coconuts, as they wouldn’t voluntarily do it.
The monkeys are isolated from their peers as they spend their lives chained, transported in cages, and forced to climb trees in order to collect coconuts. The captive animals display stereotypic types of behavior, such as circling endlessly. Similar abuse was found at all 13 randomly selected locations.
Chaokoh produces coconuts for coconut milk that you sell. Its refusal to take a position against cruelty to animals is not sitting well with ethical consumers, and your own current position stands in contrast to that of the more than 25,000 other stores that have pledged not to purchase products from any company that depends on forced monkey labor.
We’d love to work together to get coconut products involving such labor off your shelves. May we please hear from you?
Sincerely,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-08-31--PETA Calls For State Audit of UC Campuses After COVID-19–Related Animal Killings for ‘Non-Essential’

PETA Calls For State Audit of UC Campuses After COVID-19–Related Animal Killings for ‘Non-Essential’ Experiments

Following Euthanasia of Animals as Part of Schools ' COVID-19 Response Plans , Group Questions Why Extraneous Experiments Were Ever Conducted or Funded by Taxpayers Sacramento , Calif. – Today , PETA sent a letter to the state auditor urging an audit of the use of public money , personnel , property , equipment , and space by University of California ( UC ) campuses in Berkeley , Davis , Los Angeles , San Diego , and San Francisco for animal experiments deemed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic .
This apparently led to the euthanasia of animals in UC laboratories @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that in the last fiscal year , those campuses received $ 428 million in state appropriations , some of which may have gone toward funding animal experiments that were ultimately postponed or canceled .
In March , UC-Berkeley implemented a plan “ to ramp down , curtail , or postpone , animal research experiments ” ; UC-Davis urged its staff to “ ramp down all noncritical on-campus research activities ” ; UC-Los Angeles requested that its experimenters “ ramp down or terminate research ” ; UC-San Diego urged experimenters to “ [ c @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and UC-San Francisco informed its staff that “ [ i ] n mouse facilities , breeding should be reduced to the minimum possible ; no increases in cage counts will be permitted and all researchers should plan for additional reductions of cage counts in the future.
” These directives likely led to the killing of hundreds or more animals whom the schools deemed extraneous .
PETA questions why state funds were wasted on experiments considered non-essential .
“ The experiments on animals carried out on UC campuses were undoubtedly cruel , and apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala .
“ PETA is calling on state officials to follow the money and prevent taxpayer waste—and animal suffering—in laboratories that should never have received funding in the first place.
” Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives , as more than 90 % of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fails to lead to treatments for humans .
( Please read under “ Lack of benefit for humans ” here . )
And 95 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials .
PETA ’ s letter to California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle is available upon request .
The group—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to experiment on ” —opposes speciesism , a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org or click here .

Following Euthanasia of Animals as Part of Schools' COVID-19 Response Plans, Group Questions Why Extraneous Experiments Were Ever Conducted or Funded by Taxpayers
For Immediate Release:
August 31, 2020
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Sacramento, Calif. – Today, PETA sent a letter to the state auditor urging an audit of the use of public money, personnel, property, equipment, and space by University of California (UC) campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco for animal experiments deemed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. This apparently led to the euthanasia of animals in UC laboratories.
In its letter, PETA notes that in the last fiscal year, those campuses received $428 million in state appropriations, some of which may have gone toward funding animal experiments that were ultimately postponed or canceled. In March, UC-Berkeley implemented a plan “to ramp down, curtail, or postpone, animal research experiments”; UC-Davis urged its staff to “ramp down all noncritical on-campus research activities”; UC-Los Angeles requested that its experimenters “ramp down or terminate research”; UC-San Diego urged experimenters to “[c]onsider culling non-essential animals”; and UC-San Francisco informed its staff that “[i]n mouse facilities, breeding should be reduced to the minimum possible; no increases in cage counts will be permitted and all researchers should plan for additional reductions of cage counts in the future.” These directives likely led to the killing of hundreds or more animals whom the schools deemed extraneous. PETA questions why state funds were wasted on experiments considered non-essential.
“The experiments on animals carried out on UC campuses were undoubtedly cruel, and apparently not even the schools can justify them,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on state officials to follow the money and prevent taxpayer waste—and animal suffering—in laboratories that should never have received funding in the first place.”
Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives, as more than 90% of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fails to lead to treatments for humans. (Please read under “Lack of benefit for humans” here.) And 95% of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.
PETA’s letter to California State Auditor Elaine M. Howle is available upon request. The group—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or click here.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-01--Your Guide to Coconut Products That Aren’t Made With Monkey Labor

Not all coconut products are made the same way .
In fact , some producers based in Thailand force monkeys @ @ @ @ @ them chained and confined to cages for extended periods of time .
These naturally social @ @ @ @ @ from each other and denied the freedom to move around .
However , it ’ @ @ @ @ @ that are produced using these cruel methods , whether you ’ re looking for coconut @ @ @ @ @ , oil , or any other coconut-based vegan products .
The products below are made @ @ @ @ @ t use monkey labor to harvest coconuts .
Let your local grocery stores know that @ @ @ @ @ by asking them to stop stocking coconut products that hurt monkeys : Note : PETA @ @ @ @ @ LLC Associates Program , an affiliate advertising program designed to provide websites with a means @ @ @ @ @ advertising and linking to Amazon.com .

In 2019, PETA Asia investigators visited eight farms where monkeys are forced to pick coconuts—including those for one of Thailand’s major coconut milk producers, Chaokoh—as well as several monkey-training facilities and a coconut-picking competition. At each one, they documented that these sensitive animals were abused and exploited. Since being alerted to this situation nearly a year ago, Chaokoh and the Thai government have failed to take meaningful action to end the use of forced monkey labor. They are relying on a misleading and inadequate audit system instead of going directly to inspect the farms themselves. This allows them to remain willfully ignorant of the extent of forced monkey labor in their coconut supply chain.
In 2020, a new PETA Asia investigation found that monkeys are still being used at many farms and that monkey schools are still in operation and coconut-picking competitions using monkeys are still taking place. Even though many retailers around the world have stopped purchasing Thai coconut products, the Thai coconut industry, including Chaokoh and the Thai Food Processors Association, and Thailand’s ambassador to the U.S. are all actively attempting to mislead global retailers and consumers about the continued use of monkey labor.
Reportedly, many monkeys are illegally abducted from their families when they’re just babies. They’re fitted with rigid metal collars and kept chained or tethered for extended periods.
Denied the freedom to move around, socialize with others, or do anything else that is important to them, these intelligent animals slowly lose their minds. Driven to desperation, they pace and circle endlessly on the barren, trash-strewn patches of dirt where they’re chained.
Following PETA Asia’s investigations, nearly 40,000 stores, including Albertsons, Kroger, Publix, Target, Walmart, and Wegmans, stopped purchasing this brand’s products, and the majority will no longer buy any coconut products derived from Thai monkey labor.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Tim Stark of ‘Tiger King’ Ordered to Surrender Animals From ‘Wildlife in Need’

An Indiana judge has granted the state ’ s motion ordering roadside zoo owner Tim Stark to surrender all animals ( excluding big cats ) from Wildlife in Need ( WIN ) by September 18 , pending the final outcome of the litigation charging Stark and WIN with charity fraud .
This means the small exotic cats , primates , porcupines , foxes , wallabies , otters , bears , parrots , owls , and other animals relegated to his shoddy roadside zoo will soon be placed in new homes .
The new ruling omits big cats only because the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tigers , lions , and tiger/lion hybrids imprisoned at WIN was already secured per a federal court order that resulted from PETA ’ s successful Endangered Species Act lawsuit .
The Indiana judge also ordered Stark to ensure that all animals at WIN receive continued care prior to their removal , and he warned the Tiger King villain against further intimidating or threatening those involved in implementing the order—the latter of which was specified after Stark was filmed ( below ) outside a courtroom yelling at witnesses .
It ’ s been a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PETA action , the infamous animal exploiter ’ s exhibitor ’ s license was permanently revoked last month , meaning that he can never again legally use frightened bear cubs , sloths , spider monkeys , or any other species regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in his cruel animal encounters .
The good news came after he and WIN were assessed a total of $ 340,000 in civil penalties— $ 40,000 of which was assessed against him individually .
This is a warning to the entire big-cat cub-petting industry : Your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you can help PETA get animals out of the hands of other cruel exhibitors : Take Action to Help Animals at Roadside Zoos

An Indiana judge has granted the state’s motion ordering roadside zoo owner Tim Stark to surrender all animals (excluding big cats) from Wildlife in Need (WIN) by September 18, pending the final outcome of the litigation charging Stark and WIN with charity fraud. This means the small exotic cats, primates, porcupines, foxes, wallabies, otters, bears, parrots, owls, and other animals relegated to his shoddy roadside zoo will soon be placed in new homes.
The new ruling omits big cats only because the process of finding new homes for the tigers, lions, and tiger/lion hybrids imprisoned at WIN was already secured per a federal court order that resulted from PETA’s successful Endangered Species Act lawsuit.
VICTORY! Tim Stark of #TigerKing just lost his lawsuit to PETA. He'll no longer be able to separate big-cat cubs from their moms, force them to interact with the public, & declaw them. This could be the beginning of the end of the cub-petting industry! https://t.co/OYJqtAFGCI — PETA | #BreakingTheChain (@peta) August 5, 2020
The Indiana judge also ordered Stark to ensure that all animals at WIN receive continued care prior to their removal, and he warned the Tiger King villain against further intimidating or threatening those involved in implementing the order—the latter of which was specified after Stark was filmed (below) outside a courtroom yelling at witnesses.
It’s been a rough few months for Stark—after years of PETA action, the infamous animal exploiter’s exhibitor’s license was permanently revoked last month, meaning that he can never again legally use frightened bear cubs, sloths, spider monkeys, or any other species regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in his cruel animal encounters. The good news came after he and WIN were assessed a total of $340,000 in civil penalties—$40,000 of which was assessed against him individually.
This is a warning to the entire big-cat cub-petting industry: Your days are numbered.
Find out how you can help PETA get animals out of the hands of other cruel exhibitors:


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Get Out Your Hankie: New Film Tells Story of Dog Presumed Dead

Edith always knew she deserved a starring role , and now she finally has one .
The formerly chained dog , a fluffy black chow mix , is the star—along with dozens of other chained or penned dogs—of Breaking the Chain , a groundbreaking new documentary about PETA fieldworkers ’ efforts to improve the lives of neglected “ backyard dogs ” produced by Oscar winner Anjelica Huston .
Edith ( then called “ Fluffy ” ) spent years yearning for a chance to show what she was capable of .
The opportunity finally came on a chilly spring day when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spotted the aging , unkempt dog behind a rundown trailer in rural North Carolina .
They put straw in her doghouse to keep her warm and dry , cleaned up her small patch of dirt , gave her some treats and ear scratches , took photos , and jotted down the owner ’ s name and address .
The next day at the Sam Simon Center—our headquarters in Norfolk , Virginia—PETA staffers Emily Allen and Jes Cochran were going through the volunteers ’ photos and did a double take when they saw “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whom Jes had been visiting at another address for years and had delivered a doghouse to , transported to PETA ’ s mobile clinic for a free spay surgery , and routinely given lots of toys , treats , food , fresh water , and tummy rubs .
However , two years earlier , Edith had disappeared , and Jes hadn ’ t known what had happened to her .
The life of every chained dog is heartbreaking , but Edith had struck a chord with Jes , who had been visiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wriggling bundle of soft black fur .
As the years passed , Edith ’ s puppy-like optimism and enthusiasm had never dimmed .
Unlike many other chained dogs , who go mad from intensive confinement , she had never become fearful or aggressive .
She always greeted Jes like an old friend , with face licks and by flopping over onto her back for tummy rubs .
Edith never really cared about treats or toys—all she wanted was attention .
When Edith disappeared , Jes assumed the worst , knowing the many dangers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including contagious diseases , heartworms , exposure , heat exhaustion , dehydration , and attacks by loose dogs or cruel people .
You ’ ll have to watch the documentary to find out whether Edith and Jes were reunited .
It ’ s available now on video-on-demand platforms such as Apple TV , iTunes , and Prime Video .
Breaking the Chain will also be shown at the Richmond International Film Festival and the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival in September and October .
Don ’ t miss it !

Edith always knew she deserved a starring role, and now she finally has one. The formerly chained dog, a fluffy black chow mix, is the star—along with dozens of other chained or penned dogs—of Breaking the Chain, a groundbreaking new documentary about PETA fieldworkers’ efforts to improve the lives of neglected “backyard dogs” produced by Oscar winner Anjelica Huston.
Edith (then called “Fluffy”) spent years yearning for a chance to show what she was capable of. The opportunity finally came on a chilly spring day when two PETA volunteers out delivering straw bedding spotted the aging, unkempt dog behind a rundown trailer in rural North Carolina. They put straw in her doghouse to keep her warm and dry, cleaned up her small patch of dirt, gave her some treats and ear scratches, took photos, and jotted down the owner’s name and address.
The next day at the Sam Simon Center—our headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia—PETA staffers Emily Allen and Jes Cochran were going through the volunteers’ photos and did a double take when they saw “Fluffy.” She sure looked like Edith, whom Jes had been visiting at another address for years and had delivered a doghouse to, transported to PETA’s mobile clinic for a free spay surgery, and routinely given lots of toys, treats, food, fresh water, and tummy rubs. However, two years earlier, Edith had disappeared, and Jes hadn’t known what had happened to her.
The life of every chained dog is heartbreaking, but Edith had struck a chord with Jes, who had been visiting her since she was a young, wriggling bundle of soft black fur. As the years passed, Edith’s puppy-like optimism and enthusiasm had never dimmed. Unlike many other chained dogs, who go mad from intensive confinement, she had never become fearful or aggressive. She always greeted Jes like an old friend, with face licks and by flopping over onto her back for tummy rubs. Edith never really cared about treats or toys—all she wanted was attention.
When Edith disappeared, Jes assumed the worst, knowing the many dangers that “backyard dogs” face, including contagious diseases, heartworms, exposure, heat exhaustion, dehydration, and attacks by loose dogs or cruel people.
You’ll have to watch the documentary to find out whether Edith and Jes were reunited.
Breaking the Chain is streaming FREE on Prime Video for one month.
The incredibly moving documentary, #BreakingTheChain, is now streaming for FREE on @PrimeVideo & only $0.99 across all other video-on-demand services for the next month. The film shows how PETA fieldworkers spend every day helping animals in need. https://t.co/q2e4Jr6Lgo pic.twitter.com/bH9UcktRmC — PETA (@peta) November 10, 2020
The film is also available on other video-on-demand platforms such as Apple TV, iTunes, and Google Play.
Breaking the Chain will also be shown at the Richmond International Film Festival and the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival in September and October. Don’t miss it!


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Don’t Let Your Masks Harm Animals! How to Dispose of Them Responsibly

Face masks—a vital tool to reduce the spread of COVID-19—aren ’ t going away anytime soon , but when we throw them away , these necessary items can harm the environment and the animals who share our planet .
The good news ?
We can all do our part by taking a little extra care to make sure our masks don ’ t hurt fellow animals !
The Problem With Throwing Away Face Masks Already , mask litter has polluted parks , sidewalks , and our city streets .
Reports have been shared of wildlife tangled in the elastic straps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Dolphins , turtles , and other marine animals can easily choke or suffer from fatal bowel obstructions when they mistake personal protective equipment for food .
Like all other plastic materials , masks pose a risk to our waterways , where they ’ ll degrade into even smaller pieces of microplastic .
When plastic breaks down , it also releases hazardous chemicals that can exacerbate oceanic acidification .
What You Can Do to Protect Animals From Disposable Face Masks Properly dispose of your masks !
Check to see if your local recycling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them away in a receptacle .
Be sure to cut the ear straps to help prevent wildlife from getting entangled in them .
If you work outside the medical field , consider buying reusable masks that are easily washable .
Not only will you help reduce our overwhelming use of plastic , you can also show off your personality ( by letting the world know where you stand on speciesism ) while doing your part to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus .
Clip those bands , and crush your cans .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk .
Animals of all kinds often mistake trash for food or shelter .
Securely cover your garbage cans and recycling bins at home to ensure that they can ’ t get into them and get stuck inside .

Face masks—a vital tool to reduce the spread of COVID-19—aren’t going away anytime soon, but when we throw them away, these necessary items can harm the environment and the animals who share our planet.
The good news? We can all do our part by taking a little extra care to make sure our masks don’t hurt fellow animals!
The Problem With Throwing Away Face Masks
Already, mask litter has polluted parks, sidewalks, and our city streets. Reports have been shared of wildlife tangled in the elastic straps common to most plastic, disposable masks. Dolphins, turtles, and other marine animals can easily choke or suffer from fatal bowel obstructions when they mistake personal protective equipment for food.
The environmental impact of disposable PPE could be catastrophic with so many masks, gloves etc now in circulation – please dispose of your PPE responsibly https://t.co/WPK3nXsoP7 — Amy Ockelford (@RSPCA_Amy) August 24, 2020
Like all other plastic materials, masks pose a risk to our waterways, where they’ll degrade into even smaller pieces of microplastic. When plastic breaks down, it also releases hazardous chemicals that can exacerbate oceanic acidification.
What You Can Do to Protect Animals From Disposable Face Masks
Properly dispose of your masks! Check to see if your local recycling facility takes disposable masks, or throw them away in a receptacle. Be sure to cut the ear straps to help prevent wildlife from getting entangled in them.
If you work outside the medical field, consider buying reusable masks that are easily washable. Not only will you help reduce our overwhelming use of plastic, you can also show off your personality (by letting the world know where you stand on speciesism) while doing your part to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Clip those bands, and crush your cans.
Remember, all trash puts animals at risk. Animals of all kinds often mistake trash for food or shelter. Securely cover your garbage cans and recycling bins at home to ensure that they can’t get into them and get stuck inside.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Walmart to Get ‘Pecked’ for Buying From Filthy, Cruel Egg Supplier

Release of Shocking PETA Investigative Video Prompts Call for Company to Examine Ties to Factory Farm Edmonton , Alta .
– Walmart shoppers will get an eyeful on Thursday , when a “ flock of chickens ” will lead a PETA protest against the retailer over its ties to Trillium Farm Holdings , an egg producer whose widespread , severe abuse of hens has just been exposed in a PETA undercover investigation .
Where : Walmart , 1203 Parsons Rd .
N.W .
( at the intersection with 13 Avenue N.W . )
, Edmonton The protesters will screen footage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of dead hens were found , many left to decompose alongside the survivors in small , cramped cages .
PETA ’ s investigator documented a severely injured bird still alive in a trash bin—a supervisor had clumsily attempted but failed to kill the bird and let her suffer for two more days before another worker finally killed her .
Another worker was seen pulling a live hen ’ s head off with his hands .
“ Chickens are curious individuals who have distinct personalities , but most importantly , they feel pain and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch .
“ PETA is calling on Walmart to reconsider its ties with this supplier and asking kind people to choose vegan foods that no animal suffered for.
” PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to eat ” —opposes speciesism , a human-supremacist worldview .
The group is also holding protests outside other Walmart stores in cities in the U.S. and across Canada , including Vancouver and Montréal .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .

Release of Shocking PETA Investigative Video Prompts Call for Company to Examine Ties to Factory Farm
For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2020
Contact:
Nicole Meyer 202-483-7382
Edmonton, Alta. – Walmart shoppers will get an eyeful on Thursday, when a “flock of chickens” will lead a PETA protest against the retailer over its ties to Trillium Farm Holdings, an egg producer whose widespread, severe abuse of hens has just been exposed in a PETA undercover investigation.
When: Thursday, September 3, at 12 noon
Where: Walmart, 1203 Parsons Rd. N.W. (at the intersection with 13 Avenue N.W.), Edmonton
The protesters will screen footage from the investigation, in which hundreds of dead hens were found, many left to decompose alongside the survivors in small, cramped cages. PETA’s investigator documented a severely injured bird still alive in a trash bin—a supervisor had clumsily attempted but failed to kill the bird and let her suffer for two more days before another worker finally killed her. Another worker was seen pulling a live hen’s head off with his hands.
“Chickens are curious individuals who have distinct personalities, but most importantly, they feel pain and fear as intensely as any human does,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is calling on Walmart to reconsider its ties with this supplier and asking kind people to choose vegan foods that no animal suffered for.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
The group is also holding protests outside other Walmart stores in cities in the U.S. and across Canada, including Vancouver and Montréal.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--PETA Calls For State Audit of Iowa State University After COVID-19–Related Animal Killings for ‘Non-

PETA Calls For State Audit of Iowa State University After COVID-19–Related Animal Killings for ‘Non-Essential’ Experiments

Following Euthanasia of Animals as Part of School 's COVID-19 Response Plans , Group Questions Why Extraneous Experiments Were Ever Conducted or Funded by Taxpayers Ames , Iowa – Today , PETA sent a letter to the state auditor urging an audit of the use of public money , personnel , property , equipment , and space by Iowa State University ( ISU ) for animal experiments deemed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic .
This apparently led to the euthanasia of animals in the school ’ s laboratories .
In its letter , PETA notes that in the last fiscal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 469 million in state appropriations , some of which may have gone toward funding animal experiments that were ultimately postponed or canceled .
In March , ISU asked its staff to “ prioritize ongoing essential [ animal ] research , ” “ [ c ] onsider delaying new projects and delaying acquisition of new animal subjects , ” and “ [ r ] educe rodent breeding to only numbers required to maintain lines.
” The university also urged experimenters “ to begin identification of non-critical animal assets … and assist in arrangements for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the killing of hundreds or more animals the school deemed extraneous .
PETA questions why state funds were wasted on experiments considered non-essential .
“ ISU ’ s experiments on animals were undoubtedly cruel , and apparently not even the school can justify them , ” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala .
“ PETA is calling on state officials to follow the money and prevent taxpayer waste—and animal suffering—in laboratories that should never have received funding in the first place.
” Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fails to lead to treatments for humans .
( Please read under “ Lack of benefit for humans ” here . )
In addition , 95 % of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials .
PETA ’ s letter to Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand is available upon request .
The group—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to experiment on ” —opposes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more information , please visit PETA.org or click here .

Following Euthanasia of Animals as Part of School's COVID-19 Response Plans, Group Questions Why Extraneous Experiments Were Ever Conducted or Funded by Taxpayers
For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2020
Contact:
Amanda Tumbleson 202-483-7382
Ames, Iowa – Today, PETA sent a letter to the state auditor urging an audit of the use of public money, personnel, property, equipment, and space by Iowa State University (ISU) for animal experiments deemed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. This apparently led to the euthanasia of animals in the school’s laboratories.
In its letter, PETA notes that in the last fiscal year, the university received nearly $469 million in state appropriations, some of which may have gone toward funding animal experiments that were ultimately postponed or canceled. In March, ISU asked its staff to “prioritize ongoing essential [animal] research,” “[c]onsider delaying new projects and delaying acquisition of new animal subjects,” and “[r]educe rodent breeding to only numbers required to maintain lines.” The university also urged experimenters “to begin identification of non-critical animal assets … and assist in arrangements for their disposition.” These directives likely led to the killing of hundreds or more animals the school deemed extraneous. PETA questions why state funds were wasted on experiments considered non-essential.
“ISU’s experiments on animals were undoubtedly cruel, and apparently not even the school can justify them,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on state officials to follow the money and prevent taxpayer waste—and animal suffering—in laboratories that should never have received funding in the first place.”
Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives, as more than 90% of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fails to lead to treatments for humans. (Please read under “Lack of benefit for humans” here.) In addition, 95% of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.
PETA’s letter to Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand is available upon request. The group—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or click here.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Kentucky Derby Bettors Told, ‘Hold Your Tickets,’ in New Ad Touting Lawsuit Victory

PETA Says Others Should Sue if Trainers Cheat , After Bettor Settles Doping , Racketeering , Fraud Lawsuit Louisville , Ky. – Following the $ 20,000 settlement in a first-of-its-kind , PETA-supported lawsuit brought by a bettor against a horse trainer and an owner for illegally doping a horse before a harness race , PETA is placing ads on the websites of the Las Vegas Review-Journal , Louisville Courier-Journal , WLKY-TV in Louisville , and the Lexington Herald-Leader , alerting Kentucky Derby bettors that they , too , can sue if they ’ re cheated out of rightful winnings by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the precedent-setting lawsuit that has sent chills down horse trainers ’ and owners ’ spines , Illinois-based bettor Jeff Tretter alleged that trainer Robert Bresnahan Jr. and owner J.L .
Sadowsky LLC illegally influenced the outcome of a January 2016 race at the Meadowlands , a harness track in New Jersey , by doping the horse Tag Up and Go , a long shot who went on to win the race .
Unbeknownst to bettors , Tag Up and Go had tested positive for the banned substance erythropoietin , which stimulates red blood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s oxygen-carrying capacity .
“ Trainers should know : If they dope horses , they risk a lawsuit , ” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo .
“ PETA is alerting Kentucky Derby bettors to hang onto their tickets in case they end up taking horse abusers and cheaters to court.
” PETA notes that last year ’ s Kentucky Derby winner , Maximum Security , was disqualified for interference .
Later , his trainer , Jason Servis—along with 26 others—was indicted for drugging horses .
Trainer Bob Baffert—who has horses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s derby—recently had disqualifications after two of his horses failed post-race drug tests .
Just last week , the California Horse Racing Board announced that it would pursue the disqualification of the Baffert-trained Thoroughbred Justify , who tested positive for a banned substance in the 2018 Santa Anita Derby .
Justify ’ s win in this race qualified him to run in the Kentucky Derby and thus enabled his Triple Crown victory , something that should not have happened .
Performance-enhancing drugs often mask horses ’ pain , allowing them to race and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disabling .
Illegal doping and the overuse of medication frequently lead to broken bones , other injuries , and death .
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 .

PETA Says Others Should Sue if Trainers Cheat, After Bettor Settles Doping, Racketeering, Fraud Lawsuit
For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2020
Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382
Louisville, Ky. – Following the $20,000 settlement in a first-of-its-kind, PETA-supported lawsuit brought by a bettor against a horse trainer and an owner for illegally doping a horse before a harness race, PETA is placing ads on the websites of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Louisville Courier-Journal, WLKY-TV in Louisville, and the Lexington Herald-Leader, alerting Kentucky Derby bettors that they, too, can sue if they’re cheated out of rightful winnings by trainers who have drugged horses.
In the precedent-setting lawsuit that has sent chills down horse trainers’ and owners’ spines, Illinois-based bettor Jeff Tretter alleged that trainer Robert Bresnahan Jr. and owner J.L. Sadowsky LLC illegally influenced the outcome of a January 2016 race at the Meadowlands, a harness track in New Jersey, by doping the horse Tag Up and Go, a long shot who went on to win the race. Unbeknownst to bettors, Tag Up and Go had tested positive for the banned substance erythropoietin, which stimulates red blood cell production, thereby increasing the blood’s oxygen-carrying capacity.
“Trainers should know: If they dope horses, they risk a lawsuit,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is alerting Kentucky Derby bettors to hang onto their tickets in case they end up taking horse abusers and cheaters to court.”
PETA notes that last year’s Kentucky Derby winner, Maximum Security, was disqualified for interference. Later, his trainer, Jason Servis—along with 26 others—was indicted for drugging horses. Trainer Bob Baffert—who has horses scheduled to run in this year’s derby—recently had disqualifications after two of his horses failed post-race drug tests. Just last week, the California Horse Racing Board announced that it would pursue the disqualification of the Baffert-trained Thoroughbred Justify, who tested positive for a banned substance in the 2018 Santa Anita Derby. Justify’s win in this race qualified him to run in the Kentucky Derby and thus enabled his Triple Crown victory, something that should not have happened.
Performance-enhancing drugs often mask horses’ pain, allowing them to race and train with injuries that would otherwise be disabling. Illegal doping and the overuse of medication frequently lead to broken bones, other injuries, and death.
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.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--PETA Calls For State Audit of Purdue University After COVID-19–Related Animal Killings for ‘Non-Esse

PETA Calls For State Audit of Purdue University After COVID-19–Related Animal Killings for ‘Non-Essential’ Experiments

Following Euthanasia of Animals as Part of School 's COVID-19 Response Plan , Group Questions Why Extraneous Experiments Were Ever Conducted or Funded by Taxpayers West Lafayette , Ind .
– Today , PETA sent a letter to the state auditor urging an audit of the use of public money , personnel , property , equipment , and space by Purdue University for animal experiments deemed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic .
This apparently led to the euthanasia of animals in the school ’ s laboratories .
In its letter , PETA notes that in the last fiscal year , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in state appropriations , some of which may have gone toward funding animal experiments that were ultimately postponed or canceled .
In March , Purdue asked its staff to “ ramp-down noncritical research ” and “ [ i ] dentify and label the animals on your protocols that are the most critical to save ” if an “ emergency reduction in population is necessary.
” These directives likely led to the killing of hundreds or more animals the school deemed extraneous .
PETA questions why state funds were wasted on experiments considered non-essential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ animals were undoubtedly cruel , and apparently not even the school can justify them , ” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala .
“ PETA is calling on state officials to follow the money and prevent taxpayer waste—and animal suffering—in laboratories that should never have received funding in the first place.
” Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives , as more than 90 % of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fails to lead to treatments for humans .
( Please read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” here . )
In addition , 95 % of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials .
PETA ’ s letter to Indiana State Auditor Tera Klutz is available upon request .
The group—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to experiment on ” —opposes speciesism , a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org or click here .

Following Euthanasia of Animals as Part of School's COVID-19 Response Plan, Group Questions Why Extraneous Experiments Were Ever Conducted or Funded by Taxpayers
For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2020
Contact:
Amanda Tumbleson 202-483-7382
West Lafayette, Ind. – Today, PETA sent a letter to the state auditor urging an audit of the use of public money, personnel, property, equipment, and space by Purdue University for animal experiments deemed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. This apparently led to the euthanasia of animals in the school’s laboratories.
In its letter, PETA notes that in the last fiscal year, the university received nearly $406 million in state appropriations, some of which may have gone toward funding animal experiments that were ultimately postponed or canceled. In March, Purdue asked its staff to “ramp-down noncritical research” and “[i]dentify and label the animals on your protocols that are the most critical to save” if an “emergency reduction in population is necessary.” These directives likely led to the killing of hundreds or more animals the school deemed extraneous. PETA questions why state funds were wasted on experiments considered non-essential.
“Purdue’s experiments on animals were undoubtedly cruel, and apparently not even the school can justify them,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is calling on state officials to follow the money and prevent taxpayer waste—and animal suffering—in laboratories that should never have received funding in the first place.”
Numerous published studies have shown that animal experimentation wastes resources and lives, as more than 90% of highly promising results from basic scientific research—much of it involving animal experimentation—fails to lead to treatments for humans. (Please read under “Lack of benefit for humans” here.) In addition, 95% of new medications that are found to be safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.
PETA’s letter to Indiana State Auditor Tera Klutz is available upon request. The group—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or click here.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Urge Texas A&M Board to Release 29 Dogs Serving Life Sentences in Lab

Urge Texas A & M Board to Release 29 Dogs Serving Life Sentences in Lab The notorious canine muscular dystrophy ( MD ) laboratory at Texas A & M University should permanently close its doors .
Following an intensive PETA campaign—including the release of video footage—in 2019 , Texas A & M bowed to pressure and permanently ended its MD laboratory dog-breeding program .
However , it 's still warehousing 29 dogs , most of them golden retrievers , in barren metal cages , even though the lead experimenter has retired and the program appears to have no funding for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how much pain and suffering Texas A & M has inflicted on the dogs over the course of their lives .
At least 15 of them—including Baguette , Barbara , Brioche , and Cheddar—are carriers for the gene that causes MD but do n't have it themselves and are healthy .
PETA has repeatedly offered to take the dogs and place them in permanent and loving homes , but Texas A & M President Michael Young has ignored our offers and denied them everything that would have made their lives decent , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
That 's why your help is needed .
Please use the link below and join thousands of PETA supporters in calling on the members of The Texas A & M University System Board of Regents to use their authority and order a release of all remaining dogs from the canine MD laboratory .
An end to these horrific experiments is in sight , and we wo n't give up until that dog lab is empty !

Gutted! That’s the only way to describe Texas A&M University’s canine muscular dystrophy laboratory.
Exposed! First, we released video footage showing the horrors of the laboratory.
Stopped! Then we ended the breeding program that had produced dozens of sick golden retrievers afflicted with a canine form of muscular dystrophy.
Saved! More than 50 dogs were released for adoption.
Finished! The lead experimenter retired. The funding dried up.
Now the last nine healthy dogs transferred from the laboratory are going to real homes.
PETA was determined to free all the healthy dogs released from this laboratory. But even though Texas A&M had promised that all the dogs would be released for adoption, PETA obtained records showing that nine healthy dogs had been betrayed and transferred to the veterinary school teaching program instead!
We never gave up on these golden retrievers. We campaigned hard—and now the dogs will be in homes before the end of the year!
This victory was hard-fought. Here’s how we did it.
PETA first exposed the laboratory in late 2016, with the release of video footage revealing that golden retrievers and other dogs had been deliberately bred to develop a crippling and painful form of canine muscular dystrophy. Many of the dogs struggled to walk and were forced to eat a soupy gruel, as solid food was too difficult for them to swallow. They were used in painful experiments involving biopsies and a device that stretched their muscle tissue. Despite 40 years of these experiments, no cure for muscular dystrophy has been developed.
PETA’s campaign involved multiple colorful protests on campus; various federal complaints and lawsuits, including a groundbreaking First Amendment lawsuit settled in PETA’s favor; airplane banners, TV ads, and billboards; and disruptions of sporting events and meetings of the Board of Regents.
Five hundred physicians along with numerous scientists, veterinarians, and people with MD joined PETA’s campaigns, as did numerous celebrities, including Sir Paul McCartney, James Cromwell, Bill Maher, Lily Tomlin, Pamela Anderson, Casey Affleck, Richard Linklater, Nikki Sixx, and Ryan Tannehill.
Thanks to the more than 6 million messages that PETA supporters sent Texas A&M demanding that the administration take action to help the ailing dogs, 60 dogs in total have been or will soon be freed from this laboratory, with the promise of a better future.
Thank you to all our supporters who helped win this historic victory for dogs in laboratories.
Now please take a minute to urge Harvard University to close Margaret Livingstone’s laboratory. She has spent her entire 40-year career tearing baby monkeys away from their mothers and sewing their eyes shut—or making sure they never see a human or monkey face—just to see how badly it damages their brain and visual development.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--UAB Whistleblower Comes Forward; Feds to Investigate University Lab

Insider Contacted PETA About Animal Suffering and Death in Organ-Transplant Laboratory at the University of Alabama–Birmingham Birmingham , Ala. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) will investigate a University of Alabama–Birmingham xenotransplantation laboratory—where the organs of genetically modified pigs are transplanted into baboons—after a whistleblower gave documents , photos , and video footage to PETA that reveal acute animal suffering and scores of apparent violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act .
According to the whistleblower , experimenters did not follow proper protocols for animal care , failed to comply with common veterinary standards , used expired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ records to hide their failure to relieve animals ’ suffering .
Among the whistleblower ’ s other allegations , a pig ’ s kidney had been transplanted into a baboon named Laja in January 2019 .
In a video taken in June 2019 to show the “ success ” of the surgery , Laja appears emaciated and is missing a lot of hair as she repetitively circles and somersaults in her cage , a sign of extreme psychological distress .
As she got sicker—not better—following the transplant , fluid built up in her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her ulcerated surgery incision , and she developed an open sore on her thigh .
Rather than properly treating the wounds , experimenters reportedly applied Woolite laundry detergent to them to hide the poor condition of her skin .
She was killed in September 2019 .
A photograph shows a baboon ’ s miserable post-operative condition after a pig ’ s heart was transplanted into her body .
The intravenous tube can be seen leaking .
The baboon reportedly died within two days .
E-mails shared by the whistleblower reveal that experimenters discussed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her from growing too large for her organs to be removed and transplanted into another animal .
“ Sensitive monkeys and pigs are being used in grisly Frankenstein experiments that have never worked , ” says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Alka Chandna , Ph.D. “ The school apparently can ’ t even comply with simple animal protection laws .
University President Ray Watts should close this laboratory now.
” PETA is also urging the CEO of United Therapeutics—the company that has bankrolled these experiments with $ 19.5 million over five years—to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presumed organ-donation consent laws would increase organ availability , thus alleviating the shortage and saving more human lives .
PETA—whose motto reads , in part , that “ animals are not ours to experiment on ” —opposes speciesism , which is a human-supremacist worldview .
For more information , please visit PETA.org .

Insider Contacted PETA About Animal Suffering and Death in Organ-Transplant Laboratory at the University of Alabama–Birmingham
For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2020
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Birmingham, Ala. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will investigate a University of Alabama–Birmingham xenotransplantation laboratory—where the organs of genetically modified pigs are transplanted into baboons—after a whistleblower gave documents, photos, and video footage to PETA that reveal acute animal suffering and scores of apparent violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.
According to the whistleblower, experimenters did not follow proper protocols for animal care, failed to comply with common veterinary standards, used expired or incorrect medications, and falsified veterinary-care records to hide their failure to relieve animals’ suffering.
Among the whistleblower’s other allegations, a pig’s kidney had been transplanted into a baboon named Laja in January 2019. In a video taken in June 2019 to show the “success” of the surgery, Laja appears emaciated and is missing a lot of hair as she repetitively circles and somersaults in her cage, a sign of extreme psychological distress. As she got sicker—not better—following the transplant, fluid built up in her abdomen, pockets of fluid collected along her ulcerated surgery incision, and she developed an open sore on her thigh. Rather than properly treating the wounds, experimenters reportedly applied Woolite laundry detergent to them to hide the poor condition of her skin. She was killed in September 2019.
A photograph shows a baboon’s miserable post-operative condition after a pig’s heart was transplanted into her body. The intravenous tube can be seen leaking. The baboon reportedly died within two days. E-mails shared by the whistleblower reveal that experimenters discussed underfeeding a pig in order to keep her from growing too large for her organs to be removed and transplanted into another animal.
“Sensitive monkeys and pigs are being used in grisly Frankenstein experiments that have never worked,” says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Alka Chandna, Ph.D. “The school apparently can’t even comply with simple animal protection laws. University President Ray Watts should close this laboratory now.”
PETA is also urging the CEO of United Therapeutics—the company that has bankrolled these experiments with $19.5 million over five years—to rethink its funding, noting that implementing presumed organ-donation consent laws would increase organ availability, thus alleviating the shortage and saving more human lives.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Urgent From PETA: Hot-Weather Survival Tips for Animals

Medford , Ore. – With a heat advisory in effect for the Medford area , animals—who can quickly succumb to heatstroke if left outdoors or in a parked car—are at risk .
Twenty-seven animals have died this year from heat–related causes .
Anyone who leaves animals outside or in vehicles to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty .
The following tips will help keep animal companions safe in hot weather : • Never leave an animal inside a hot vehicle .
Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars , and a dog trapped inside can die from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the shade with the windows slightly open , which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car .
PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for help with intervening in life-or-death situations .
• Keep animals indoors .
Unlike humans , dogs can sweat only through their footpads and cool themselves by panting , so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences .
Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately .
• Avoid hot pavement .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ asphalt temperatures can climb to 140 degrees , causing pain , burns , and permanent damage to dogs ’ paws after just a few minutes of contact .
Walk dogs on grass whenever possible , and avoid walking in the middle of the day .
Never run with dogs in hot weather—they ’ ll collapse before giving up , at which point , it may be too late to save them .
PETA has released a warm-weather public service announcement featuring Mckenna Grace .
For more information , visit PETA.org .

For Immediate Release:
September 2, 2020
Contact:
Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
Medford, Ore. – With a heat advisory in effect for the Medford area, animals—who can quickly succumb to heatstroke if left outdoors or in a parked car—are at risk. Twenty-seven animals have died this year from heat–related causes.
Anyone who leaves animals outside or in vehicles to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty.
The following tips will help keep animal companions safe in hot weather:
Never leave an animal inside a hot vehicle. Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars, and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car. PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for help with intervening in life-or-death situations.
Temperatures can quickly soar in parked cars, and a dog trapped inside can die from heatstroke within minutes—even if the car is in the shade with the windows slightly open, which has little to no effect on lowering the temperature inside the car. for help with intervening in life-or-death situations. Keep animals indoors. Unlike humans, dogs can sweat only through their footpads and cool themselves by panting, so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences. Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately.
Unlike humans, dogs can sweat only through their footpads and cool themselves by panting, so even brief sun exposure can have life-threatening consequences. Anyone who sees animals in distress and is unable to help should note their locations and alert authorities immediately. Avoid hot pavement. When outdoor temperatures reach the 80s, asphalt temperatures can climb to 140 degrees, causing pain, burns, and permanent damage to dogs’ paws after just a few minutes of contact. Walk dogs on grass whenever possible, and avoid walking in the middle of the day. Never run with dogs in hot weather—they’ll collapse before giving up, at which point, it may be too late to save them.
PETA has released a warm-weather public service announcement featuring Mckenna Grace. For more information, visit PETA.org.


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--PETA to Elon Musk: Put Neuralink Chip in Your Own Brain, Leave Pigs Alone

On August 28 , entrepreneur Elon Musk introduced Gertrude—one of several pigs he is using in experiments—during a webcast demonstration of the latest project by his company Neuralink : implanting coin-sized computer chips in pigs ’ brains to attempt to demonstrate that brainwaves can be tracked .
Aware that there would be a backlash against his use of pigs , he used a PR reel to say that he and his staff care for animals .
However , this “ humane washing ” can ’ t cover up the cruelty , notion of human supremacy , speciesism , or bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the internet shouldn ’ t come at the expense of pigs—our fellow Earthlings—who feel pain , fear , and confusion and deserve consideration just as humans do .
Scientifically , Musk ’ s demo didn ’ t show anything that hasn ’ t been done before .
Like most of his “ breakthroughs , ” this one is long on hype and short on evidence that what he ’ s predicting can actually happen .
PETA challenges Musk to behave like a true pioneer by implanting a Neuralink chip in his own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensitive pigs who didn ’ t volunteer for surgery , don ’ t appreciate that he provides them with pats and a straw cell , and should be left out of pie-in-the-sky projects .
If Musk were truly forward-thinking , he ’ d consider how future generations will judge his use of other life-forms—in other words , how he ’ ll be judged for his speciesism .
One video clip shows a pig made to trot on a treadmill—and her ears have had giant notches cut in them , just as is done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Might doesn ’ t make right : From outfitting our cars to experimenting with brainwaves , Musk must know that there are ethical ways to achieve his goals—and exploiting pigs in experiments isn ’ t one of them .
Pigs—They ’ re Just Like Us Pigs are known to dream , recognize their own names , memorize complicated routes , and lead complex social lives on a par with those of primates .
People who run animal sanctuaries that include pigs note that they ’ re like humans in many ways : They @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soccer balls , and getting massages .
Please , to ask Musk to leave pigs alone , and then click below to speak out for those being used and killed in other experiments , too :

When it comes to exploiting animals, Elon Musk is a true leader.
Earlier this year the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) against the University of California–Davis for egregious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act by experimenters there who were contracted by Neuralink—one of Musk’s companies—to implant its brain chips into 23 monkeys, causing “extreme suffering.”
Now comes word that the company itself is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General after a federal prosecutor referred PCRM’s complaint to that office—a highly unusual move that likely reflects the severity of the violations.
In interviews with former Neuralink employees, Reuters also revealed that the company’s experiments have been riddled with incompetence, including one in which 25 pigs had the wrong size device implanted in their heads and another in which pigs had a device implanted on the wrong vertebra. It appears that the mistakes may be, in part, chalked up to Musk’s “demands to move fast.”
Company veterinarian Sam Baker advised his colleagues to immediately kill one of the pigs to end her suffering. ‘Based on low chance of full recovery … and her current poor psychological well-being, it was decided that euthanasia was the only appropriate course of action,’ Baker wrote colleagues about one of the pigs a day after the surgery, adding a broken heart emoji.
Reuters also reported Neuralink’s gruesome death toll so far: “The company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, following experiments since 2018.” It added, “The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records on the number of animals tested and killed.”
That last line says it all about the company’s attitude toward its victims.
According to documents obtained by PCRM, 15 of the 23 monkeys whose skulls experimenters drilled into and whose brains were implanted with the Neuralink chips have since died.
“Pretty much every single monkey [who] had had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects,” said Jeremy Beckham, PCRM’s research advocacy director.
According to the group, “Neuralink and UC Davis staff failed to provide dying monkeys with adequate veterinary care, used an unapproved substance known as ‘Bioglue’ that killed monkeys by destroying portions of their brains .… Macaque monkeys used in the experiment were caged alone, had steel posts screwed to their skulls, suffered ‘facial trauma,’ seizures following brain implants, and recurring infections at implant sites.”
One of the monkeys implanted with the chip was euthanized after developing a skin infection. Another was also euthanized after researchers discovered they were missing fingers and toes, “possibly from self-mutilation or some other unspecified trauma.” A necropsy revealed that one of the other monkeys who died had suffered a brain hemorrhage.
“PETA challenges Elon Musk to behave like a pioneer and implant the Neuralink chip in his own brain.” —PETA President Ingrid Newkirk
In August 2020, Musk introduced Gertrude—one of several pigs used—during a webcast demonstration. The experiment involved implanting coin-size computer chips in pigs’ brains in order to attempt to demonstrate that brainwaves can be tracked.
One clip showed a pig forced to trot on a treadmill. Giant notches had been cut in her ears, just as is done without painkillers to pigs on filthy farms. Aware that there would be backlash against his use of pigs, Musk used a PR reel to claim that he and his staff care about animals. But no amount of “humane washing” can cover up the cruelty, speciesism, and bad science that underlie all such experiments.
In a separate experiment, Musk implanted a computer chip in a monkey’s skull, apparently to see if the animal could “play video games using his mind.” He claimed that the monkey “looks totally happy,” but he’s no primatologist. If he were, he’d never suggest that an animal strapped to a chair with a metal device implanted in his skull and forced to watch video games all day would be anything but miserable.
Attempts to connect human brains to the internet shouldn’t come at the expense of pigs or monkeys—our fellow Earthlings—who feel pain, fear, and confusion and deserve consideration. Scientifically, Musk’s demos didn’t show anything that hasn’t been shown before. Like most of his supposed breakthroughs have been, they were long on hype and short on evidence that what he was predicting can actually happen.
Smart, sensitive pigs deserve far more than a few pats on the head and a cell lined with straw—they should be left in peace to socialize, play, make nests, and relax in the sun. The intelligent monkey whose mutilation Musk admittedly oversaw should be free to live with his troop members, scamper along tree branches, and forage for fruit, flowers, nectar, and other tasty foods in his natural habitat—not be imprisoned inside a lab and used as a test subject.
ATTN @Neuralink and @elonmusk: Involuntary brain surgery and denying Gertrude and other pigs their natural lives as individuals is speciesism, not science. pic.twitter.com/36RBYrjpkU — PETA (@peta) September 1, 2020
Pigs and Monkeys Are Just Like Us Pigs are known to dream, recognize their own names, memorize complicated routes, and lead complex social lives. Humans who run animal sanctuaries that include pigs note that they’re like us in many ways: They enjoy listening to music, playing with soccer balls, and getting massages. Monkeys have learned to use cameras and iPhones to look at themselves, indicating their self-awareness. They’re also empathic, unlike the speciesist humans who torment them. In many recorded instances, monkeys have risked their lives to help others.
In December 2021, Musk—the TIME 2021 Person of the Year, who has a long history of harming animals by shooting squid, mice, and tardigrades (aka “water bears”) into space as well as implanting a computer chip into a monkey’s skull and coin-size computer chips into pigs’ brains—announced a new proposal: to send a “Noah’s Ark” of animals to Mars.
“[T]he next really big thing is to build a self-sustaining city on Mars and bring the animals and creatures of Earth there. Sort of like a futuristic Noah’s ark. We’ll bring more than two, though—it’s a little weird if there’s only two,” Musk said.
Any more than zero would be more than a little weird—it’d be cruel.
Again, Musk should focus on humans, who can choose to participate, and stop exploiting animals in curiosity-driven experiments.
Another exploitative and pointless endeavor of Musk’s involves SpaceX—of which Musk is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer—and 128 baby glow-in-the-dark bobtail squid as well as 5,000 tardigrades. These animals were sent to the International Space Station, where they were to be experimented on in the name of “research.”
News of the squid’s and tardigrades’ doomed trip followed a similar December 2020 stunt, in which mice—some of whom had first been injected with drugs at The Jackson Laboratory, causing their muscle mass to double unnaturally—were launched aboard a SpaceX rocket. These experiments and the slew mentioned below are cruel wastes of time, with no relevance to astronauts or other humans.
Having outfitted cars with vegan leather, Musk must know that there are ethical ways to achieve his goals. Exploiting animals in experiments isn’t one of them.
Please, share this post on Twitter to ask Musk to leave animals alone. Then click below to speak out for those being used and killed in other experiments:


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-02--Possible Corruption, Monkey Escapes: Time for Primate Center Closure

There 's an open secret at the Washington National Primate Research Center ( WaNPRC ) that monkeys imprisoned there frequently escape from their cages—a blatant violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act ( AWA ) —and sometimes go missing for days .
Worse , documents obtained by PETA show that not all the escapes are reported to university authorities , as required .
PETA has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) , but we need your help to turn up the heat on this federally funded monkey prison , located at the University of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Our complaint also alleges serious conflicts of interest on UW 's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee ( IACUC ) , which is supposed to ensure that all animal protection laws are enforced in the school 's laboratories .
IACUCs were mandated in 1985 after PETA exposed horrors at two other primate laboratories , one at the University of Pennsylvania and the other in Silver Spring , Maryland .
Congress wisely decided that experimenters could not be trusted without oversight , and IACUCs are supposed to provide that .
UW 's is apparently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ severed at a laboratory in Silver Spring , Maryland .
His suffering and the abuse of baboons at the University of Pennsylvania led to new laws in 1985 that the Washington National Primate Research Center may now be violating .
The documents obtained by PETA show multiple monkey escapes at the WaNPRC , the latest of which took place in April .
A monkey went missing for two days before she was discovered trapped in a tunnel cage , dehydrated and hungry .
Staff failed to report that she was missing .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in May .
And then for the next two months , IACUC members , some of whom work in the primate center , could n't agree on the facility 's punishment .
Instead , they did nothing—not even issue a reprimand .
Escapes at the WaNPRC are apparently so common that the facility 's then–associate director , Sally Thompson-Iritani , complained in a December 2018 internal memo , `` There are currently six different styles of cages , it is not in the best interests of the staff and animals .
There have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ' incidents .
Last week , there were a lot of incidents . ''
( For those who do not speak `` Euphemism , '' `` out of cage incidents '' means `` escapes . ''
) Escapes are a clear violation of the AWA .
But not only are they clearly routine at the WaNPRC , there is also no threat of consequence when they occur .
There may be a reason for that .
In what appears to be a patently obvious case of mutual back-scratching , one of the members @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , executive director of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research ( NWABR ) , an organization that promotes animal experimentation .
The university is a `` platinum donor '' to the NWABR , meaning that it has given at least $ 25,000 .
Wait , there 's more : Thompson-Iritani , who is now the WaNPRC 's interim director , is president of the NWABR board , and several IACUC members serve on the board .
That 's why PETA is also urging the USDA to investigate UW 's IACUC for possible conflicts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ live in their natural environment , free from harmful experiments and away from cruel , speciesist imprisonment camps like the WaNPRC , where they 're tormented and killed .
Monkeys are living beings who experience pain , suffering , joy , and fear , just as we do .
In nature , they live in large family groups , forming strong bonds with one another .
They play , eat , explore , and hang out together .
They 're also empathic , often risking their own lives to help others .
Harvard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Primate Research Center in 2013 after looking critically at its multiple animal welfare violations , the difficulty of keeping monkeys in laboratories , and the future of its research priorities .
UW needs to follow Harvard 's lead and shut down the WaNPRC immediately .
Join thousands of PETA supporters calling for the immediate closure of the WaNPRC and the release of the monkeys to appropriate sanctuaries to live out their lives with the safety and dignity that they deserve .

Toxic Waste, Disease, Dead Monkeys
Update (July 9, 2021): It seems that the University of Washington (UW) is more concerned about its reputation than about preventing the suffering of the animals in its laboratories.
PETA had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after we obtained evidence of an egregious animal welfare violation in which staff at the school’s Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) failed to notice that a dehydrated pigtail macaque went missing for up to two days—during which the monkey was without food or water. (Please see details below.)
The USDA cited the school for that incident as well as another at the WaNPRC in which a macaque broke locks on a set of cages and escaped along with his cagemate. The monkeys sustained injuries to their hands and fingers, and other monkeys incurred facial lacerations. To top off the list of UW’s screw-ups, it was also cited for failing to check on caged rabbits for an entire weekend, in violation of federal regulations.
Rather than hanging its head in shame, UW sent the USDA a brazen 54-page appeal, complaining that it had taken “corrective action” after the incidents occurred and requesting that the citations be erased.
The USDA was having none of it. In what is best described as an understatement, its director of animal welfare operations noted that UW’s long and sordid violation record was “not indicative of a facility that is demonstrating success at preventing critical animal welfare issues.”
As much as UW would like to hide the suffering of animals in its publicly funded primate center and other labs, we’re not going to let it.
Add your voice to ours by taking action below
Original post:
There’s an open secret at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) that monkeys imprisoned there frequently escape from their cages—a blatant violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA)—and sometimes go missing for days. Worse, documents obtained by PETA show that not all the escapes are reported to university authorities, as required.
PETA has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), but we need your help to turn up the heat on this federally funded monkey prison, located at the University of Washington. Please take action below.
Our complaint also alleges serious conflicts of interest on UW’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), which is supposed to ensure that all animal protection laws are enforced in the school’s laboratories. IACUCs were mandated in 1985 after PETA exposed horrors at two other primate laboratories, one at the University of Pennsylvania and the other in Silver Spring, Maryland. Congress wisely decided that experimenters could not be trusted without oversight, and IACUCs are supposed to provide that. UW’s is apparently failing.
The documents obtained by PETA show multiple monkey escapes at the WaNPRC, the latest of which took place in April. A monkey went missing for two days before she was discovered trapped in a tunnel cage, dehydrated and hungry. Staff failed to report that she was missing. The IACUC was told a month later, in May. And then for the next two months, IACUC members, some of whom work in the primate center, couldn’t agree on the facility’s punishment. Instead, they did nothing—not even issue a reprimand.
Escapes at the WaNPRC are apparently so common that the facility’s then–associate director, Sally Thompson-Iritani, complained in a December 2018 internal memo, “There are currently six different styles of cages, it is not in the best interests of the staff and animals. There have been a number of ‘out of cage’ incidents. Last week, there were a lot of incidents.” (For those who do not speak “Euphemism,” “out of cage incidents” means “escapes.”)
Escapes are a clear violation of the AWA. But not only are they clearly routine at the WaNPRC, there is also no threat of consequence when they occur.
There may be a reason for that.
In what appears to be a patently obvious case of mutual back-scratching, one of the members of UW’s IACUC is Ken Gordon, executive director of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR), an organization that promotes animal experimentation. The university is a “platinum donor” to the NWABR, meaning that it has given at least $25,000.
Wait, there’s more: Thompson-Iritani, who acted as the WaNPRC’s interim director, is president of the NWABR board.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, the primate center’s newly-named director is infamous for being one of the few university experimenters ever to be suspended from using animals as a result of serious welfare violations
All monkeys deserve to live in their natural environment, free from harmful experiments and away from cruel, speciesist imprisonment camps like the WaNPRC, where they’re tormented and killed.
Monkeys are living beings who experience pain, suffering, joy, and fear, just as we do. In nature, they live in large family groups, forming strong bonds with one another. They play, eat, explore, and hang out together. They’re also empathic, often risking their own lives to help others.
Harvard University shut down its New England National Primate Research Center in 2013 after looking critically at its multiple animal welfare violations, the difficulty of keeping monkeys in laboratories, and the future of its research priorities. UW needs to follow Harvard’s lead and shut down the WaNPRC immediately.
Join thousands of PETA supporters calling for the immediate closure of the WaNPRC and the release of the monkeys to appropriate sanctuaries to live out their lives with the safety and dignity that they deserve.
Please send polite comments to:
Mari Ostendorf
Vice Provost for Research
University of Washington
[email protected]
Ana Mari Cauce
President
University of Washington
[email protected]


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-03--URGENT: Urge Davenport, Iowa Officials to Halt Mass Fish Suffocation

PETA has fielded desperate calls from Davenport residents regarding a reported pond draining along Belle Avenue between East 60th and @ @ @ @ @ ’ re told that this is a city-led beautification project and that water is being @ @ @ @ @ in large volumes this week .
Callers have expressed concerns as to whether humane provisions @ @ @ @ @ numerous fish and other aquatic animals who call the pond home !
While waterfowl , @ @ @ @ @ be able to relocate themselves , fish and soft-shelled turtles will be unable to do @ @ @ @ @ officials asking that they halt the draining and relocate ( or euthanize if necessary ) @ @ @ @ @ to death , but have not received a response .
More worrisome still , one @ @ @ @ @ are currently being extracted in order to be buried alive elsewhere .
Your voice is @ @ @ @ @ urge the following officials to do whatever is necessary so that no animals will be @ @ @ @ @ death—then forward this alert far and wide !

PETA has fielded desperate calls from Davenport, Iowa, residents regarding the reported draining of Prairie Pointe Pond, located along Belle Avenue between E. 60th and E. 58th streets. We’ve been told that this is a city-led “beautification” project and that a large volume of water has been pumped out of the pond this week. Callers have expressed concerns as to whether humane provisions will be made for the numerous fish and other aquatic animals who call the pond home.
While waterfowl, snakes, and hard-shelled turtles may be able to relocate themselves, fish and soft-shelled turtles won’t be able to do so. PETA contacted Davenport officials asking that they halt the draining and relocate (or euthanize, if necessary) whatever animals would otherwise suffocate to death, but we haven’t received a response yet. More worrisome still, one eyewitness claims that the fish are currently being extracted in order to be buried alive elsewhere. Your voice is needed now!
Please politely urge the following officials to do whatever is necessary so that no animals will be forced to endure a cruel death—then forward this alert widely.
The Honorable Michael Matson, Mayor of Davenport
[email protected]
Ms. Judith Lee, Alderwoman 8th Ward, City of Davenport
[email protected]
Davenport Department of Public Works
[email protected]


petapeoplefortheethicaltreatmentofanimals--2020-09-04--Dog Dies in Airport Warehouse—PETA Wants Cargo Company Held Responsible

Eighteen dogs were reportedly kept trapped in cages without food or water for THREE DAYS after being flown from Amman , Jordan , to O ’ Hare International Airport in Chicago—and one of them , a German shepherd , was apparently found dead .
According to reports , on August 31 , the Chicago Police Department was alerted to dogs being kept in an airport warehouse and denied proper care .
Alliance Ground International , the cargo company responsible for the incident , apparently admitted that the dogs ’ release was delayed because it didn ’ t have the vaccination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was reportedly issued two citations , but that ’ s not nearly enough—its staff should be prosecuted for cruelty to animals for the slow , awful death of the German shepherd , and the company ’ s U.S. Department of Agriculture license should be revoked .
Alliance also handles shipments from Volga-Dnepr Airlines , which transports monkeys to the U.S. to be used in painful experiments , and that needs to stop .
The company is incompetent and uncaring and should never again be trusted with the life of any animal—including monkeys who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shoved into crates , and traumatized by a transoceanic flight .

Eighteen dogs were reportedly kept trapped in cages without food or water for THREE DAYS after being flown from Amman, Jordan, to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago—and one of them, a German shepherd, was apparently found dead. According to reports, on August 31, the Chicago Police Department was alerted to dogs being kept in an airport warehouse and denied proper care. Alliance Ground International, the cargo company responsible for the incident, apparently admitted that the dogs’ release was delayed because it didn’t have the vaccination documents required for international shipping.
17 Dogs Caged In Warehouse Without Food Or Water, One Dead After Flight To Chicago https://t.co/QvDtdPbX37 pic.twitter.com/NwBpRtLnD5 — CBS Chicago (@cbschicago) September 2, 2020
Alliance was reportedly issued two citations, but that’s not nearly enough—its staff should be prosecuted for cruelty to animals for the slow, awful death of the German shepherd, and the company’s U.S. Department of Agriculture license should be revoked. Alliance also handles shipments from Volga-Dnepr Airlines, which transports monkeys to the U.S. to be used in painful experiments, and that needs to stop.
The company is incompetent and uncaring and should never again be trusted with the life of any animal—including monkeys who are torn away from their families, shoved into crates, and traumatized by a transoceanic flight.