For Immediate Release:
April 12, 2022
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Winston-Salem, N.C. – Photos simply obtained by PETA from a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report reveal the most recent federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations in Wake Forest University’s laboratories: a monkey locked right into a restraint chair that’s so massive the animal hangs by the neck and underarms in addition to pigs’ meals dishes caked with darkish brown grime. The pictures can be found right here.
“Wake Forest experimenters were not troubled to leave a monkey hanging by the neck and underarms in a medieval restraining device for 90 minutes—and federal inspectors were forced to intervene to stop the mistreatment,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “Wake Forest is either unable or unwilling to comply with minimum animal welfare standards, and PETA is calling on the university to close down its animal laboratories and focus on modern, animal-free research.”
Wake Forest obtained greater than $123 million in taxpayer cash final 12 months from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with about half funding curiosity-driven experiments on animals. Yet research present that lower than 10% of animal research ever translate into therapies or cures for people.
In latest years, the USDA has cited Wake Forest laboratories 18 occasions for violating the AWA. Among these violations, a monkey strangled in his cage after changing into entangled in an “enrichment” gadget. An untrained experimenter carved into cats’ skulls and implanted {hardware} into their brains however failed to provide them ache remedy. An experimenter stitched up a pig’s stomach however left a towel contained in the animal’s physique—resulting in the animal’s loss of life. A rabbit died from asphyxiation when a laboratory employee did not deal with the animal correctly.
Last 12 months, PETA uncovered Wake Forest experimenter Carol A. Shively, who had initially reported utilizing federal grant cash to fund CIA black website–type torture strategies on monkeys in China, a rustic with lax animal safety legal guidelines. Purportedly employed to check psychological sickness in people, experimenters blasted monkeys with water cannons, bombarded them with jackhammer-like sounds, blinded them with strobe lights, and despatched electrical shocks by means of their toes. Wake Forest denied that federal funds had supported the venture, despite the fact that the printed journal article concerning the research acknowledged that it had.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram or click on right here.
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