Shrill Screams and Grisly Scenes—7 Horror Houses Where Animals Suffer

If you’re heading to a horror house this season, consider yourself lucky—not everyone gets to choose this experience. At slaughterhouses, laboratories, farms, marine parks, and other animal-exploiting facilities, the pain, fear, and suffering don’t end when Halloween does. See the real-life nightmare that animals face every day—and learn how you can help shut down these places. 

Farmer Focus’ Flesh-Peddling Facility of Frights

The Global Animal Partnership labeled Farmer Focus “animal welfare certified”—but two whistleblowers reported to PETA that its Virginia slaughterhouse is a filthy hellhole. These whistleblowers described broken and bruised chickens’ wings, a malfunctioning stunning bath, and a rampant mouse population. Managers allegedly sniffed warm meat to decide if it was okay to use and allowed workers to package flesh that had been lying on the dirty floor for over 15 minutes.

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University of Washington Experimenter’s Primate Prison of Pain

For six decades, the Washington National Primate Research Center has reliably produced one thing: monkey corpses. Take, for example, experimenter Fritzie Arce-McShane’s horrific radiation tests. She violated her own experimental protocol by repeatedly irradiating an elderly monkey and choosing not to keep his protective goggles in place. The monkey suffered severe radiation poisoning: facial swelling, cracked and peeling skin, and an inability to open his mouth. The damage was so extreme that he was euthanized to end his suffering.

In another one of her failed experiments, the skin on the head of an elderly macaque eroded, exposing the wires connected to electrodes implanted in the animal’s brain.

Help us shut WaNPRC down

SeaWorld’s Tanks of Terror

In SeaWorld’s tiny concrete tanks, lonely, bored, and stressed orcas have little to do but swim in endless circles or float listlessly. The park uses other dolphins and whales as breeding machines to create more generations of animals to exploit.

These abusement parks are more like underwater prisons. More than 40 orcas, 500 other dolphins and whales, and countless other animals have died at SeaWorld’s parks, many of whom had much shorter lives than they could have had in the ocean. These animals spent their lives condemned to cruel exploitation after humans either kidnapped them from their ocean homes and families or bred them in captivity.

Tell companies to cut ties with SeaWorld

Leather Supplier’s Ranches of Ruin

At ranches in Brazil supplying the largest leather processor in the world—which has been linked to Coach—a PETA exposé revealed that workers branded cows and bulls on the face, electroshocked them, and beat them. Then, they were sent to slaughter so that their skins can be turned into unsustainable leather products.

Tell Coach to Ditch Leather

The Government’s Monstrous Monkey Misery Machine

If the thought of your scariest nightmares haunting your every waking moment makes your skin crawl, you won’t be able to stomach the horror scene that is the hellish monkey laboratory of National Institutes of Health experimenter Elisabeth Murray. Experimenters cut open monkeys’ heads, inject toxins into their brains, and expose them to fake snakes or spiders, intentionally to elicit terror. When Murray is through with them, they may be killed or tormented again in other experiments.

Urge Congress to Shut Down Elisabeth Murray’s Laboratory

Carden Circus’s Cauldron of Cruelty

Step right up … to decades of suffering. Carden Circus has a long, grim history of abusing animals, from confining tigers to tiny cages nearly 24/7 to forcing elderly, arthritic elephants to perform. One of the circus’ prisoners is 56 -year-old Betty, dubbed “the most depressed elephant in the world.” She has spent nearly four decades in chains under the Carden family, which drags her from town to town to force her to perform in circuses, despite her rapidly declining health.

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Plainville Farms Suppliers’ Cesspool of Suffering

At farms that supply Plainville Farms—a company that claims that turkeys from its suppliers are “raised humanely” in a “stress-free environment”— PETA’s investigator recorded workers kicking, beating, and violently throwing turkeys. One worker held a turkey by her injured neck, mimicked masturbation, dropped her on the floor, kicked her, and left her to die. As a result of the investigation, former workers at Plainville Farms were charged with six felonies and a total of 141 counts of cruelty to animals—the largest number in any case of cruelty to factory-farmed animals in U.S. history—and 10 former workers have been convicted so far.

Speak Up Against Humane-Washing

When Halloween ends, many of us will stop thinking about haunted horror houses, but animals will continue living and dying in these nightmares unless YOU HELP STOP IT!