A Message from Ingrid Newkirk

It’s PETA’s 45th anniversary, and since our first case involved bringing out the 17 Silver Spring monkeys and closing the Institute for Behavioral Research, it seems right to focus on animal experiments here. We have never slowed down, ending experiments, replacing toxicity tests and cosmetics tests with modern non-animal ones, closing labs, and working with government bodies to modernize. And it is paying off, despite the appalling defiance of shameless people who have carved out careers and made money from imprisoning, torturing – there’s no other word for it – and killing other species, including nonhuman primates.

Talk about hokum: Catch what both Harvard and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have said since we have put their labs under righteous attack for, among other atrocities, sewing baby monkeys’ eyes shut (something we exposed at the University of California, Riverside in 1985 when we rescued baby monkey Britches!) and for forcing liquor on gentle voles to make them molest tethered females. To try to scare away the public, Harvard and OHSU announced that, if forced to close their despicable primate laboratories, the monkeys would “have to be euthanized.” As if any monkey has ever left those places alive! And they breed more every year, only to keep them in steel boxes, experiment on them, and then … kill them. Under our plan, breeding would stop and efforts begin to place the survivors.

Please, join the fight, and let’s make our 45th year zing with huge wins for animals! Thank you for being part of it all.