Monkey Strangulation at UC-Berkeley Prompts PETA Criticism

USDA Urged to Examine College’s Animal Welfare Violations

For Rapid Launch:
Might 12, 2022

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Berkeley, Calif. – After uncovering 12 violations of federal animal welfare pointers within the College of California–Berkeley’s laboratories through a Freedom of Data Act request, PETA filed a proper grievance with the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA), urging it to quote the college for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

PETA’s grievance focuses on incidents that signify violations of federal animal welfare laws, together with the college’s failure to make sure the protection of a younger monkey who suffocated and died after their neck turned entangled in a loop of chain. Two guinea pigs died after experimenters erroneously administered an overdose of medicated eye drops throughout surgical procedure. A monkey who was subjected to experimental mind surgical procedure obtained an expired analgesic. And in an experiment that wasn’t described within the report, a monkey obtained expired analgesics on three separate events.

Amongst different incidents, data obtained by PETA doc that 30 mice had been discovered with tumors exceeding the college’s personal measurement limits, seven younger mice had been discovered alive in a freezer meant for lifeless animals, and 4 mice had been present in stacked cages that had been able to be put by way of the high-temperature cage washer. Moreover, experimenters lower into the skulls of mice however failed to supply the animals with postoperative care, which led to their deaths.

“UC-Berkeley apparently can’t be bothered to cease monkeys from choking to dying or to ensure that animals obtain efficient and secure ache aid,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is asking on the USDA to analyze earlier than the college’s tradition of callousness kills extra animals.”

In its letter, PETA notes that UC-Berkeley has a protracted historical past of continual and systemic violations of the federal AWA and USDA fines. Simply final 12 months, the USDA reported {that a} monkey was placed on extreme water restriction for an total month, towards authorised protocol. Two bats died once they had been left inside a transport enclosure and weren’t found till the next week, a bat within the faculty’s laboratory was discovered lifeless in an enclosure and disposed of by a scholar earlier than veterinarians may decide a reason for dying, and one other bat was injured throughout a month-to-month colony catch and was unable to fly.

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