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Oregon Health & Science University, home to the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) should be required to close its troubled primate center, and your governor can make this happen.
A monkey known as Milo was used as a so-called “breeding monkey” at OHSU—rotating through female cages or subjected to painful electro-ejaculation. Monkeys who are subjected to this procedure are strapped to a restraint chair, a metal band is wrapped around their penis, and bursts of electric shocks are delivered to their penis until they ejaculate.
This is the same university that for decades has failed to abide by state and federal animal welfare laws at its primate center, which imprisons more than 5,000 monkeys. In 2023, an infant monkey was crushed to death by a heavy steel guillotine-style door in front of her frantic mother, netting the university a critical violation from federal authorities. The school also illegally surveilled PETA and violated open-records laws by refusing to release video of macaques used in some of its cruel experiments, a circuit court ruled.
Experimenting on monkeys may have sounded like a good idea in 1960, when the facility was opened, but it has failed to produce treatments and cures for humans. Harvard University recognized this a decade ago and closed its national primate research center.
A majority of Oregonians want the primate center closed, and a majority of all Americans oppose the use of animals for experimentation altogether.
What You Can Do
PETA urges every Oregonian to please TAKE ACTION today and urge Governor Tina Kotek to shut down the cruel and pointless primate center.
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