Thousands of Monkeys Trapped in Louisiana Lab—Help Them!
We found monkey hell—it’s this lab in Louisiana.
This never-before-seen footage was recently taken inside the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center, which confines more than 12,000 primates. It shows macaques and other monkeys housed alone in cages barely bigger than them, where pee, poop, and rotting food collect beneath. It’s so unnatural to them that they suffer extreme hair loss, a sign of serious stress. 💔
Obtained through FOIA by PETA
the lab’s horrible history
This cruelty is nothing new for the New Iberia Research Center. Experimenters inject viruses into the monkeys’ anus’ or vaginas and stuff tubes down their throats, then remove pieces of tissue from some of the most sensitive parts of their bodies.
Once they’re done traumatizing the monkeys, experimenters kill and dissect them. 😡
Infant monkeys here have died of dehydration after a water system failed, and some of the infants who died at the facility were found with their remains mutilated by other stressed monkeys. Other animals were electrocuted to death by faulty equipment or killed by being left outside for days with nothing but plastic barrels for protection in temps as low as 2 degrees. Some monkeys have even escaped their run-down prisons, only to be caught and returned.
One adult monkey died from a long history of hurting himself, which is a major issue in laboratories. Take a sec to imagine how anxious and miserable you’d be if you were kept alone in a tiny cage. That’s exactly how sensitive, smart, social monkeys feel—but it isn’t an imaginary scenario for them. It’s been their reality. Every day. For years.
what you can do
Humans who care like you are the only hope for these monkeys. 🐒 Please urge the National Institutes of Health to stop funneling millions of dollars to the lab!
