Torture Canceled! Harvard’s Cruel Baby Monkey Tests Lost NIH Funding

Posted by Bridget on May 27, 2025

MAJOR WIN for monkeys! After years of nonstop pressure from PETA and hundreds of thousands of passionate supporters like YOU, the lights are finally out on Margaret Livingstone’s cruel experiments on baby monkeys. 🙌

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For 31 months, PETA kept the heat on—calling out Harvard and demanding change. And guess what? It worked. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) just pulled the plug on Livingstone’s federal funding for twisted tests on infants. 📢

Here’s what we were fighting against:

• Baby monkeys ripped away from their moms 😢
• Their eyelids sewn shut for a whole year
• Forced to wear goggles that mimicked strobe lights for 18 months
• Raised without ever seeing a face—just humans in welding masks
• One baby even died clinging to a cloth meant to replace her mom 💔

And after all that suffering? Many were killed and dissected. Livingstone spent nearly 40 years and millions of dollars doing this. But thanks to YOU, funding for baby monkey experiments has been terminated.

• We emailed, called, and rallied
• We hit Harvard with posters and ads
• We pushed the NIH to stop funding this horror

And now, NIH is shifting toward animal-free research—something PETA’s been pushing for with our Research Modernization NOW plan.

But we’re not done yet. There are still 7 national primate research centers where monkeys are suffering right now. These labs have wasted billions of dollars and still haven’t delivered cures or vaccines. Let’s shut them down! Join us and be part of the next big win for animals. 🎉