We traced beagles from Ridglan Farms into a research lab. Here’s exactly what we believe happened to them based on records and photos we obtained from UW-Madison.
A petition before the Washington State Board of Health would require laboratories to report dangerous infectious diseases detected in captive primates.
It's business as usual in the animal research industry—a self-protecting system that absorbs animals’ deaths, labels the incidents “noncompliance,” and moves on.
They're aiming to keep monkeys out of sanctuaries and still within the research ecosystem: available, accessible, and stockpiled for possible future experimentation.