Massive Oregon Monkey Lab to Negotiate End to Experiments!

HUGE news: After nonstop pressure from PETA and other advocates, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) board of directors voted unanimously to pass a resolution today green-lighting negotiations with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to end experiments on monkeys and transition its Oregon National Primate Research Center into a sanctuary for the 5,000+ monkeys it now holds! 🥳🥳🥳

During these discussions, the primate center will stop breeding monkeys as OHSU works with NIH to come up with a plan to help save 1,200 monkeys a year from being tormented and killed in pointless tests.

Major props to Oregon Health and Science University President Shereef Elnahal, the university board of directors, Governor Tina Kotek, Oregon state legislators, the National Institutes of Health, and all of you for pulling this off.

The announcement ends 60 years of pointless tests in which experimenters:

• Forcefully pumped nicotine into monkeys
• Fed pregnant monkeys high-fat diets before killing their infants
• Electro-ejaculated male monkeys
• Addicted monkeys to alcohol
• Subjected monkeys to full-body irradiation

OHSU’s move is right in line with the growing trend against animal experimentation in biomedical research. In April, NIH took a page from PETA scientists’ Research Modernization Now and announced a shift in funding away from experiments on animals toward non-animal research methods. 🙌 See how advocating for animals pays off big time? Stay loud to keep stacking up the Ws!

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While this is great news, monkeys are still suffering at other national primate research centers. We know these facilities can bend to public pressure —help get them shut down!