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August 11, 2023
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Portland, Ore. – PETA is looking on Oregon Well being & Science College (OHSU) to cease buying and breeding monkeys since employees can’t clear the cages in accordance with federal regulation.
In federal paperwork obtained by PETA, the college cited a labor scarcity in its determination to violate the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) by permitting the monkeys’ cages to be sanitized solely half as typically as required. A employees scarcity isn’t an excuse below the regulation.
In a letter to the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) despatched on August 10, PETA urges the company to analyze and cite the college, simply because it did in the same occasion that occurred in February at Emory College.
“OHSU ought to take its staffing scarcity as an indication that no one needs to work at a monkey-abusing laboratory and may change to superior, human-relevant analysis strategies that depart animals alone,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is looking on the USDA to analyze these alarming situations and for the college to cease subjecting monkeys to struggling and neglect by now not breeding or buying them.”
Labor shortages that delay cage cleansing—designed to stop grime, meals scraps, excrement, and different waste from accumulating and probably harming animals in addition to posing a illness threat to people—might simply contribute to different deficits in animal care, similar to inadequate well being checks and an absence of meals and water.
Final 12 months, the college was fined $38,000 by the USDA for 9 severe violations of the AWA from February 2018 to February 2022, together with botched mind surgical procedures on marmosets and the scalding deaths of two monkeys whose cage was run by means of a high-temperature washer whereas they had been trapped inside. In August, primate middle workers protested low wages and compelled extra time on account of understaffing— and a few staff recommended that the disaster might result in the deaths of monkeys.
PETA additionally has a marketing campaign urging OHSU to cease utilizing dwell animals in its obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residency coaching program for physicians.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra details about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org, take heed to The PETA Podcast, or comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
