Lindsay Oliver

Before being catapulted in shipping crates onto highway 54 in Danville, Pa., 100 monkeys spent 19 hours as cargo on a flight from Mauritius.

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 against animal...

To the Editor regarding: “The dire consequences of a research animal shortage” (opinion, Jun 23, 2021) To be clear, COVID-19 vaccines were tested on animals at the same time as human clinical trials. This process strays from the standard protocol as typically a gamut of animal experiments are performed before human trials are authorized. Due to urgent need, drug companies were given approval to run both human and animal tests simultaneously (according to The Associated Press and other...