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Like you, PETA is rooting for 43 monkeys who busted out of their Alpha Genesis prison in South Carolina in early November.
They outsmarted their tormentors. Bested their oppressors. Despite their grim situation, they held onto the tiny spark inside them the experimenters couldn’t touch. And one fine day, they tasted freedom!
You can practically hear the symphony’s flourish just thinking about it.
But this isn’t a movie. And the ugly truth is that a happy ending is far from guaranteed.
The monkeys were brought to Alpha Genesis from Morgan Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, where several thousand free-ranging rhesus macaques have lived for more than four generations. It’s essentially a feeder colony run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). When it needs new monkeys to torment, they’re plucked from the island.
Alpha Genesis, a stunningly incompetent company with $19 million in current NIH contracts, has allowed 109 monkeys in 12 separate documented incidents to escape in the last decade.
The federal government has cited the company numerous times after employee incompetence killed monkeys, including several who froze to death after being left out in the cold, a monkey who died of thirst after the water was turned off for maintenance and never turned back on, and an infant who became entangled in gauze and died.
We’ve complained often and loudly to the feds about this hell hole, and in 2017, following a complaint we filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that agency took the rare step of fining the company $12,600 for serious animal welfare violations that led to severe injuries and the deaths of two monkeys.
They Can’t Go Back
Born Free USA has contacted Alpha Genesis and offered to work with the company to provide the animals with a suitable home at its Texas-based primate sanctuary. Anonymous donors have committed $250,000 for the long-term care of any of the escaped monkeys once transferred to the sanctuary. Now, NIH needs to do the right thing. Please help TODAY by urging the agency to send all 43 monkeys to live out their lives in peace.
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