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For Immediate Release:
August 20, 2026<\/p>\n
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tWorcester, Mass. \u2013 <\/p>\n
Please see the following statement\u00a0from PETA Director of Primate Experimentation Campaigns\u00a0Amy Meyer regarding the\u00a0just-posted Official Warning issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>against Biomedical Research Models, Inc. (Biomere) for multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act involving 16 monkeys. The violations include a monkey who had to be euthanized after staff misconfigured an anesthesia machine, causing his body to distend and lung to burst; six monkeys who suffered severe hand injuries during cage cleaning, requiring amputations; a monkey whose hand\u00a0swelled after becoming trapped in an unlatched cage door; seven monkeys who endured spinal fluid draws without required pain relief; and a monkey whom staff deprived of food and sedated without explanation.<\/p>\n This rare, official warning\u2014reserved for the most egregious violations\u2014won\u2019t restore the monkeys\u2019 lives or limbs, but it confirms that Biomere does not comply with even the bare minimum animal welfare laws. Monkeys suffer from the moment they are confined in filthy breeding facilities abroad, through the stress of international transport to laboratories, and each day spent confined in cages, tormented in experiments, and ultimately killed. PETA urges the public to ask their members of Congress to pass the\u00a0PRIMATE Act<\/a>, which would end the importation of monkeys for use in pointless experiments at laboratories like Biomere.<\/p>\n PETA\u2014whose motto reads, in part, that \u201canimals are not ours to experiment on\u201d\u2014points out that\u00a0Every Animal Is Someone<\/a>\u00a0and offers free\u00a0Empathy Kits<\/a>\u00a0for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit\u00a0PETA.org<\/a>\u00a0or follow PETA on\u00a0X<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, or\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare on Facebook PostShare on X ShareShare on LinkedIn For Immediate Release:August 20, 2026 Contact:Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382 Worcester,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-599851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}