Beagles in Pain, Monkeys Left in Stifling Heat: Lovelace Biomedical’s New Federal Animal Welfare Violations: PETA Statement

For Immediate Release:
September 26, 2025

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute’s continued failure to comply with federal minimum animal welfare regulations, which resulted in two U.S. Department of Agriculture citations—one after the facility’s animal care committee failed to notice that an experimenter called for a painful test on beagles without seeking an alternative as required, and another violation when staff ignored a temperature warning and so left a room full of monkeys to suffer temperatures up to 91 degrees Fahrenheit:

Lovelace Biomedical should be out of business for consistently violating federal regulations with demonstrable callousness and incompetence. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) caught the facility’s animal care committee—the last line of defense imprisoned animals have—sleeping on the job and failing to notice exactly the type of omission it’s empaneled to catch. A staff member noticed yet simply ignored a temperature warning for six hours, pushing quarantined monkeys toward heat stroke, and that’s not even the first time. At least two previous federal inspections cited similar incidents. Each time, inspectors advised the attending veterinarian to take corrective action, but that fell on deaf ears. PETA renews its call to the New Mexico Board of Veterinary Medicine to revoke the license of Lovelace’s attending veterinarian. Failing to do so makes the board complicit in Lovelace’s continued failure to protect the animals it imprisons.

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