END MONKEY IMPORTS: Support the Preventing Risky Importation of Monkeys to Avoid Toxic Exposures (PRIMATE) Act

Monkeys belong in forests, not laboratories.

This simple, common-sense message has guided PETA's relentless efforts to stop the importation of monkeys used for cruel and pointless laboratory experiments. And members of the U.S. House of Representatives agree.

Reps. Greg Steube (R-Fla.-17) and Dina Titus (D-Nev.-01) have introduced a groundbreaking bill that would ban the import of monkeys destined for laboratories or their suppliers. If passed, this law would give monkeys their own lives back.

The bipartisan Preventing Risky Importation of Monkeys to Avoid Toxic Exposures (PRIMATE) Act (HR 8471) would end the ongoing introduction and spread of pathogens that accompany monkeys caught up in importation for use in experimentation. In 2025, more than 22,000 primates entered the U.S. This bill will finally stop the intense suffering monkeys have endured for generations at the hands of U.S. experimenters and importers—all in one fell swoop.

What does this mean?

It's impossible to overstate the magnitude of this bill. It potentially represents a tectonic shift toward compassion and away from much laboratory cruelty. Not another monkey would be abducted, crated, flown, trucked, caged, tormented, and killed in pointless experiments in this country.

Not one.

Relying on primates as surrogates for humans has failed the scientific community for decades. This bill is the next step in compelling the pharmaceutical industry to use superior, human-relevant research methods, speeding treatments to human patients in need.

Incentive for traffickers to abduct monkeys from forests to turn a fast buck would dry up. So too would the profit motive for monkey breeders.

And long-tailed macaques, favored by experimenters and currently pushed toward extinction to feed laboratories, would begin repopulating the world's forests, where they belong.

All of this is possible if this bill becomes law. But it only moves through the legislative process if YOU get involved.

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