UNC-Chapel Hill receives millions in taxpayer dollars, yet, as PETA can now show, does not provide even the minimal standards of care to animals used in federally funded research as required by the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Guide). Chronic understaffing, incompetence, indifference, neglect, and outright cruelty have resulted in the denial of such basic needs as adequate space, food, water, veterinary care, and even a humane death to rats and mice at UNC. Many have been subjected to severe trauma, prolonged suffering, and agonizingly slow and grisly deaths, not only contradicting Sen. Helms’ declarations of their humane treatment, but ultimately calling into question the legitimacy of test results at UNC.

PETA’s investigator documented, almost daily, the failure or refusal of researchers and their staff to meet basic animal care and use standards. Follow the links below to learn more.