3 days 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 ...

15 hours ago · While the deaths were first publicly exposed by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which has since issued a 270-page animal cruelty and neglect complaint to the USDA along with several scathing public statements, Alpha Genesis CEO Dr. Greg Westergaard has alleged possible tampering and foul play could have resulted in …

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.

Nov 7, 2024 · Don’t believe monkey experimenter Alpha Genesis: so-called “SPF” or “specific pathogen free” monkeys in U.S. laboratories routinely have outbreaks of tuberculosis, MRSA, bacterial pathogens that can cause dysentery, herpes B, simian retroviruses, highly pathogenic E. coli, malaria, Chagas, Listeria, and more. Insiders tell us these ...

3 days ago · Update (February 3, 2025): Following our complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency has cited Alpha Genesis for a critical violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act for the suffocation deaths of 22 monkeys.

5 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 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...

6 days ago · PETA highly doubts that Alpha Genesis has recaptured all the escaped monkeys, and we demand proof of life, including the release of the records identifying the monkeys and evidence that the ...

4 days ago · Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard thanked Yemassee for its help but had harsh words for PETA after he said all 43 escaped monkeys were recaptured in South Carolina. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook

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."