The Animal Welfare Institute exposed the recent lack of fines for Animal Welfare Act violations. Then the exposé disappeared, but reappeared ten days later without explanation WASHINGTON D.C.––Why did a scathing Animal Welfare Institute report detailing non-enforcement of the U.S. federal Animal Welfare Act posted to the AWI website on September 29, 2025 abruptly disappear […]
Behind the Alpha Genesis monkey “great escape” & recaptures
Forty-three rhesus macaques made a jailbreak, but then didn’t know where to go, or how YEMASSEE, North Carolina–– Eighteen of forty-three young female rhesus macaques who escaped on November 6, 2024 from an Alpha Genesis research colony in Yemassee, South Carolina remained at large through the Veterans Day weekend, but 25 had been recaptured. The […]
It isn’t cocaine-addicted rats exhibiting addictive pathology at NIH
Why was University of South Carolina researcher given $824,000 over four years to prove that rats can get hooked? COLUMBIA, South Carolina––“This is the kind of thing that gives people like me nightmares,” Stop Animal Exploitation Now executive director Michael Budkie told media. Budkie was discussing recent rodent experiments at the University of South […]
Rabbit sperm donors may be retired from service, but not rats, mice, & birds
And not most rabbits in laboratory use, either WASHINGTON D.C.––Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, in one of his last actions before leaving office with the Donald Trump presidential administration, “issued a January 20, 2021 directive instructing the agency to plan for the retirement of the last remaining rabbits in the EPA’s taxpayer-funded […]
Florida lab investigated for neglect that killed a monkey
Water was withheld from monkeys overnight TAMPA, PORTLAND, ST. LOUIS––The University of South Florida police department has reportedly opened an investigation into whether criminal acts were committed when water was withheld from monkeys overnight in April 2013 and three times in December 2013. “At least one primate died, and […]