Harvard’s Baby Monkey Torture Loses Funding

Following two and a half years of sustained pressure from PETA, including advertisements, complaints to federal authorities, critiques from primatologists, scientists, and legal scholars, and 700,000 emails from supporters, federal funding for Margaret Livingstone’s infant monkey laboratory has been cancelled, ending decades of monkey torment. PETA first exposed Harvard’s monkey experiments in the fall of 2022, publicizing that Livingstone tore baby monkeys away from their mothers and sewed their eyelids shut for an entire year. We also exposed Harvard for forcing baby monkeys to wear goggles that simulated disorienting strobe lights. Other monkeys were “face-deprived,” only interacting with humans wearing welding masks, so experimenters could see what would happen to monkeys who never saw a face, human or monkey.