PETA Offers to Help Harvard Find Sanctuary for Monkeys

For Immediate Release:
May 28, 2025

Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Cambridge, Mass. –

Please see the statement from PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo regarding PETA’s offer to help Harvard find sanctuary for the monkeys affected by the National Institutes of Health grant cuts. Last week, Harvard experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s grant was cancelled following a two-year campaign by PETA:

Harvard owes the monkeys a decent retirement to a reputable sanctuary now that federal funding has ended. Recently, Harvard’s Sarah Fortune claimed monkeys might have to be euthanized if funding is cut—pretending that she doesn’t kill monkeys when she’s done with them anyway—adding urgency to PETA’s offer to help find a suitable home where the monkeys can live out their lives in peace. Harvard must do right by the animals it has caged and profited from, and PETA is ready, willing, and able to help.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.