Peta footage shows newborn monkeys taken from mothers for brain experiments at University of Washington
Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at Univ of Washington
Peta has released the first filmed look inside experiments at the University of Washington's National Primate Research Center, where infants as young as two days old were separated from their mothers and fitted with head electrodes. The footage comes from a six-year, $4.2m NIH-funded study of domoic acid, a shellfish toxin, that ended in 2020; Peta says the monkeys were killed afterward. The university defends its animal care, and Peta is calling for all seven US primate centers to close.
There is no moral escape hatch. You can't claim primates are used because they're so like us, then take an infant away from its mother and experiment on it. You would never do that to a human primate.