PETA Complaint Prompts NIH to Order Return of Grant Funds for Cancer Experiments

October 2008

PETA helped call attention to the suffering of mice in federally-funded experiments at University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) and prompted government sanctions for violations. In response to a complaint from PETA, in April 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ordered UCHC to reverse $14,000 in charges to a federal grant as a result of unauthorized and cruel cancer experiments on mice. This order was in addition to the $65,000 that the NIH ordered UCHC to return in January 2008.

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind