Exit of animal use critics from the Trump administration, opposition from major research funder, & Trump policy-driven surge in Chinese lab demand stimulate “monkey hoarding” HILLSBORO, Oregon––Hopes that the Oregon National Primate Research Center might become a sanctuary for the almost 5,000 resident monkeys and baboons appear to have been dashed by Oregon Health & […]
Non-invasive monkey milk research helps to end the school milk mandate
Mother’s milk is good for babies; cow’s milk is good for calves. WASHINGTON D.C.––Yes, there was a “missing link” between the November 20, 2025 unanimous U.S. Senate vote to end the “milk mandate” in public schools, and the order to Centers for Disease Control & Prevention personnel to end experiments on macaque monkeys, issued by […]
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” orders CDC deputy chief of staff
End to CDC non-human primate research expected by the end of 2025 ATLANTA, Georgia––About 200 fewer macaques will be used in 2026 in U.S. federal laboratories after the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) quits keeping non-human primates toward the end of 2025. That will leave about 7,000 more non-human primates, mostly rhesus and […]