PETA Discovers Hungry, Frozen Animals Denied Adequate Pain Relief at UW-Madison Laboratories

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April 7, 2021

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Amanda Hayes 202-483-7382

Madison, Wisconsin. – PETA just found 56 separate reports of federal animal welfare violations at the University of Wisconsin Madison laboratories. Among other incidents, workers allowed the mouse mice to starve to death by not being able to feed them, failed to provide water for the monkeys for a three-day weekend, put the surviving gas poisoning mice in a freezer, and allowed two macaques to escape and inflict injury. themselves and the third monkey.

“The pain of being frozen alive or starving is the same whether the victim is a mouse, monkey or human,” says PETA vice president Dr. Alka Chandna. “PETA is urging UW-Madison to close these labs while the incompetence and indifference of the experimenters killed another animal.”

The documents – which were obtained at the request of the Freedom of Information Act to the National Institutes of Health and cover the period from February 2018 to February 2021 – also show that UW-Madison staff co-treated the wrong macaque for 19 days and amputated the broken one. monkey. leg without knowing the cause of the injury. In August 2020, 35 zebrafish died when a lab employee turned off the water line connected to the tank and forgot to turn it back on. In October 2020, three mice died and a fourth had to be euthanized when placed in an airtight chamber and a worker forgot to activate the airflow. The workers were unable to anesthetize the pig and rhesus monkey, which were used in experimental operations in September 2020 and January 2021, respectively.

The findings follow a six-month covert PETA investigation that uncovered widespread suffering and neglect at the National Primate Research Center of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, which contains nearly 2,000 monkeys in small barren steel cages in windowless rooms where they walk endlessly pulling out their hair. … , and attacked each other in dire calamity.

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