Stop these primate research experiments now!

 

Monkeys are locked in labs, fed toxic water, and neglected to death. Shut down this cruel facility!

Twenty-one acres. That's the outrageously huge size of a monkey breeding and research facility just outside Phoenix, Arizona, called the Washington National Primate Research Center. It's the site of cruel experiments, and recently, lots of monkey deaths. The laboratory's water supplies have been contaminated with toxic rocket fuel runoff for years, which the lab knew about. But staff kept feeding this same contaminated water to the intelligent, social macaques and other monkeys locked up for their experiments anyway.

 

As a result, upwards of 47 monkeys have died during the past eight years at the Center from diseases they developed in those secretive labs. An additional five monkeys or more have died due to incidents related to cruel neglect, including dehydration and strangulation. No monkey deserves this fate. It's time for the University of Washington, which runs the Center, to shut this abuse down. Sign the petition to stand with the monkeys and demand the closure of this inhumane and inexcusable facility!

Despite warnings from investigators that the laboratory's water supplies were contaminated with toxic rocket fuel runoff, staff did nothing to update their water system. Instead, for years after learning about the poisoned water, staff have continued to feed this same contaminated water to the intelligent, social animals they've locked up in their labyrinthine facilities.

As a result, upwards of 47 monkeys, particularly macaques, have died during the past eight years at the Washington National Primate Research Center -- from diseases they developed in those secretive laboratories.

An additional five monkeys (that we know about) have died due to neglect over the past four years. In one case, a monkey was deprived of water for multiple days due to an equipment oversight until it died from dehydration. Yet another was improperly cared for before and after surgery, and therefore asphyxiated -- choking on its own vomit, to death. One monkey discovered a chain that staff had left in its cage and strangled itself to death.

These deaths and breakdowns in proper treatment of the animals are also probably illegal, representing violations of both state and local regulations.

Each monkey locked in the Washington National Primate Research Center is there against its will. Each monkey is an innocent creature being tortured for reasons they can't understand. No monkey deserves this fate.

Despite being located in the desert of Arizona, the Washington National Primate Research Center is actually run by the University of Washington, located in Seattle. The University has the ability to shut this cruel and possibly illegal operation, but so far it hasn't. We must continue to put pressure on Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, until they do the right thing! We are also urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in based on the monkeys' contaminated water sources and shut this brutal research lab down.

Thank you,

Miranda

Care2 Petitions Team

P.S. Each monkey locked in the Washington National Primate Research Center is there against its will, and now they're being poisoned to death.