1 day ago · PETA filed a complaint with the agency after hearing from whistleblowers. Despite receiving $19 million in contracts from the National Institutes of Health, Alpha Genesis has repeatedly failed to meet even the most basic animal welfare standards. Federal agencies should be prohibited from throwing taxpayer dollars at a facility with a ...

Dec 10, 2024 · In early November, 43 monkeys captured our hearts and attention when they broke free from Alpha Genesis, Inc.—a South Carolina facility that imports, breeds, and sells animals for experiments and conducts its own cruel and deadly testing.

16 hours ago · Westergaard ended the update this way: “As for PETA, they can go f___ themselves.” Alpha Genesis manages three primate facilities in Lowcountry of South Carolina. There are 4,000 monkeys at ...

Jan 4, 2023 · The four monkeys who died and the four who were seriously injured are Alpha Genesis Inc.’s latest victims in a long history of incompetence. Monkeys have strangled and frozen to death, died of dehydration, and been killed by other stressed animals.

3 days ago · YEMASSEE, S.C. (WSAV) – Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center did not mince words in a blunt response to a statement released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) criticizing ...

5 days ago · Alpha Genesis has repeatedly failed to meet even the bare minimum standards for animal welfare. It’s time to cut the funding and end this cruelty. PETA has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the agency has confirmed it’s investigating.

Nov 29, 2024 · PETA has alleged that around 18 monkeys at the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in South Carolina died after a heater malfunctioned. Rhesus macaques and long-tailed macaques are some of...

Dec 20, 2024 · On Dec. 10, spokespersons for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced that PETA had filed a 270-page 'cruelty, neglect' complaint against the Alpha Genesis center, known locally in the S.C. Lowcountry as "the monkey farm."

3 days ago · In December, PETA filed a 270-page "cruelty and neglect" complaint against Alpha Genesis with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies. Alpha Genesis operates one site in Hampton County and two sites in Beaufort County, including one known as "Monkey Island," with as many as 10,000 non-human primates, while employing ...

Nov 13, 2024 · PETA spokespersons stated that the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary in Texas has contacted Alpha Genesis, offering to work with it to provide the animals with a "suitable home," and PETA says it has contacted the NIH requesting that, once all are recovered, the 43 animals be released to their care.