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A Crash Revealed a Glimpse of Their Suffering
Before being catapulted in shipping crates onto highway 54 in Danville, Pa., 100 monkeys spent 19 hours as cargo on a flight from Mauritius.

Lindsay Oliver
1 min read


We Should Ban Animal Testing. Here’s Why.
My name is Lindsay Oliver and I’m a former undercover animal cruelty investigator. The most psychologically traumatizing abuse I’ve ever witnessed has been inside animal experimentation labs. Here are a few reasons why animal research needs to end... Animal experimentation doesn’t work. Ninety-five percent of drugs tested on animals fail in human clinical trials . Of the few that are approved, over half of them are recalled or relabeled for human safety issues. People are a

Lindsay Oliver
2 min read


Animal Researchers are Using the Pandemic to Demand More Animals
To the Editor regarding: “The dire consequences of a research animal shortage” (opinion, Jun 23, 2021) To be clear, COVID-19 vaccines...

Lindsay Oliver
2 min read


What is Animal Testing?
Everything you need to know. Call it animal testing, animal research, or animal experimentation, it all means the same thing—experiments...

Lindsay Oliver
3 min read


My response to This NY Times Article
To the Editor regarding: “ Future Vaccines Depend on Test Subjects in Short Supply: Monkeys ” (news article, Feb 23, 2021): I’ve worked with monkeys inside animal research facilities and for these highly intelligent individuals to be compared to oil is disturbingly upsetting. Yet, they’re certainly treated like inanimate commodities in labs. Contrary to the images in the article, most monkeys are locked in tiny metal cages with barely any room to turn around, no interaction w

Lindsay Oliver
1 min read


RAT RESCUE MISSION
“Hi, Mama Girl,” I said, as I approached the clear, plastic cage. Her protective nature jumped to cover her babies...

Lindsay Oliver
3 min read


THE MOUSE WHO DIED IN MY HANDS
I scooped up the shivering mouse and held her close to my chest. She was warm, but her little hands and feet felt cool.

Lindsay Oliver
3 min read


WATER DEPRIVATION
In order to force monkeys to do things they don't want to do, animal researchers take away their water—the most basic survival need.

Lindsay Oliver
3 min read


THE SAC RACK
The sign read “sac rack.” It was taped on the front of a metal shelving unit that held clear, plastic, shoe-box sized containers filled...

Lindsay Oliver
2 min read
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