Every year, U.S. government agencies waste undisclosed millions of tax
dollars to abuse primates in secretive, crude, and ineffective lab
experiments opposed by most Americans. Right now, thousands of primates in
federal labs are being addicted to street drugs, crippled, exposed to
toxins, drilled into and psychologically tormented.
White Coat Waste Project recently convinced the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to end $5.5 million nicotine addiction experiments on
monkeys and retire the primates to a sanctuary. And in 2015, the federal
government cut funding for all chimpanzee experimentation after it was
deemed "unnecessary" and wasteful. Sadly, taxpayer-funded testing on other
primates has continued.
Moby, pictured in a now-defunct FDA nicotine testing lab, was retired
to sanctuary after a WCW campaign led to the cancellation of the
experiments.
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The NIH recently spent taxpayers’ money on primate experiments including:
For years, WCW has fought to stop all government primate testing most recently ending $5.5 million nicotine addiction tests on primates at the Food and Drug Administration, which prompted lawmakers to urge FDA to curb the practice overall. WCW’s #GiveThemBack campaign has also been pushing all federal labs to adopt out primates and other animals purchased with tax dollars.
Federal documents analyzed by WCW show that from 2014 to 2018, the NIH’s internal primate use averaged about 7,000 animals each year, including experiments on baboons, marmosets, macaques and other species.
During the same five-year period, the NIH’s abuse of primates in painful testing (with pain relief) rose by 35 percent and its use of primates in horrific “maximum pain” experiments where no pain relief is provided rose by a disturbing 300 percent.
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