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The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement

#Yemassee #SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #Monkeys #AlphaGenesis #Macaques #AnimalTesting #AnimalResearch #Wildlife #Animals #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights #LabAnimals #Veterinarians

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Monkeys confined behind a chained link fence At breeding and research centers like Alpha Genesis, conditions often drive monkeys to the point of madness.Photographs by Devin Lunsford for The New Yorker
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Animal rights group demands federal agencies cut ties with #AlphaGenesis

#Beaufort #SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #AnimalTesting #Monkeys #StopAnimalExploitationNow #AnimalRights #NIH #AnimalLaw #AnimalResearch #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #CarbonMonoxidePoisoning

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Animal rights group demands federal agencies cut ties with Alpha Genesis
A group that focuses on ending lab animal abuse is now calling on federal agencies to end contracts with Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Beaufort.
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July 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
veganrick.bsky.social
Trump administration sends $4.1 million for #MonkeyIsland despite efforts to slash federal spending

#SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #AnimalTesting #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #AnimalLaw #LabAnimals #AnimalRights #AnimalResearch #AlphaGenesis #RhesusMonkeys

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A juvenille and mother as part of a free-range colony of rhesus monkeys, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2005, on Morgan Island near Beaufort.
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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✉️ Send Alpha Genesis a message to urge them to replace animal use with advanced scientific methods and to release the monkeys to a suitable sanctuary:
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Via email: info@alphagenesisinc.com or call toll-free 866-789-6665
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February 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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#USDA does not assign 'critical violation' to #AlphaGenesis after third monkey escape in past decade

#AnimalTesting #LabAnimals #Macaques #Vivisection #AnimalCruelty #USpoli #NIH #SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #AnimalResearch #BadScience #AnimalWelfare #Primates

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February 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Tragedy! Shut down the South Carolina #AlphaGenesis facility after repeated abuse and injury of these intelligent creatures. Carbon monoxide blamed for deaths of 22 research monkeys at troubled supplier | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Carbon monoxide blamed for deaths of 22 research monkeys at troubled supplier
USDA report hits Alpha Genesis with “critical” violation but agency says no discipline will follow
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February 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The recapture of moneys escaped from Alpha Genesis is not a feel-good, fairy tale ending, despite media takes to the contrary: riseforanimals.org/news/monkeys...

#animalrights #animalliberation #animalwelfare #animalprotection #alphagenesis #antivivisection
Media Frames Monkey Recapture as a “Disney Movie” Ending
Over the weekend, media outlets celebrated the recapture of the last remaining escapees from Alpha Genesis, a nonhuman primate breeding and research facility in South Carolina. The coverage marks the ...
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January 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The rhesus macaque monkeys, all females, made a break for it after police say an employee did not fully lock their enclosure at #AlphaGenesis, a facility that breeds them for medical research — known to locals as “the monkey farm.” 🙈
#AnimalAbuse #AnimalResearch

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Last 4 escaped monkeys are captured in South Carolina after months on the loose
Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research
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January 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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PETA announced that it had filed a 270-page “cruelty, neglect” complaint against the Alpha Genesis Center in South Carolina. 🐒

#monkeys #peta #animalcruelty #macaques #alphagenesis

PETA Files Complaint Against Alpha Genesis Monkey Farm in South Carolina
On the 10th of December 2024, the animal rights group PETA announced that it had filed a 270-page “cruelty, neglect” complaint against the Alpha Genesis Center (known locally in the S.C.
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January 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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SC monkey farm president confirms monkey deaths that occurred over Thanksgiving holiday

#AnimalTesting #AlphaGenesis
#SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #AnimalResearch #Vivisection #AnimalWelfare #Monkeys #Wildlife #NIH #AnimalCruelty #LabAnimals #AnimalRights

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SC monkey farm president confirms monkey deaths that occurred over Thanksgiving holiday
Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard confirmed reports from animal activists of a mass monkey death event at the Yemassee, Beaufort County, facility last month.
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December 27, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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Researchers at SC monkey farm injected primates with dangerous Zika virus for study

#AnimalTesting #AlphaGenesis #ZikaVirus #Covid #HIV #AnimalResearch #BirdFlu #Vivisection #USpoli #SouthCarolina #USA 🇺🇸 #AnimalCruelty #Monkeys #LabAnimals #BadScience #Science
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December 27, 2024 at 9:50 PM
actionforprimates.bsky.social
Report @Claire_Col in The Guardian - shocking allegations made by veterinary whistleblower of neglect & incompetence at #AlphaGenesis (holds $19m in @NIH contracts), with at least 82 #monkeys injured or dead. USDA investigating complaint filed by @peta. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
US animal lab from which monkeys escaped accused of widespread abuse
AGI in South Carolina investigated by government after leaked files revealed traumatic injuries and animal deaths
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December 22, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Yemassee monkeys allegedly 'slowly roasted alive;' #USDA, investigating reports of 18 deaths

#AlphaGenesis #Macaques #AnimalTesting #AnimalCruelty #AnimalResearch #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #PETA #Whistleblower #AnimalRights #AnimalLabs #BadScience

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Yemassee monkeys allegedly 'slowly roasted alive;' USDA, investigating reports of 18 deaths
Whistleblowers allege multiple monkey deaths over the weekend as heaters reportedly malfunction at Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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Monkey deaths, prior problems at research center, whistleblower reports
#AlphaGenesis #SouthCarolina #AnimalTesting #AnimalCruelty #AnimalResearch #USDA #uspoli #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife #Macaques #Monkeys #Vivisection

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Monkey deaths, prior problems at research center, whistleblower reports
Moldy food, traumatic injuries and cage escapes – these are just some of the concerns outlined in documents from a whistleblower about conditions at a South Carolina monkey research facility.
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November 23, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Gruesome Pics Expose Horrors of Alpha Genesis and Other Labs
#AnimalTesting #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #AlphaGenesis #AnimalResearch #Wildlife #Macaques #Monkeys #AnimalLabs #Vivisection

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Gruesome Photos Expose Horrors of Alpha Genesis and Other Labs
New whistleblower photos from inside Alpha Genesis expose injured and bloody monkeys and horrendous conditions inside the facility. But this isn’t just an Alpha Genesis problem — it’s an animal resear...
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November 23, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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What we’d like to see is these monkeys be released to the #BornFree USA sanctuary in South Texas, where they can have some of that freedom that they’ve just gotten a taste of," Angela Grimes said. #AlphaGenesis has not responded to her group's offer. 🙈 #AnimalResearch

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November 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM
citizensagainstyranny.org
🦤 Again!? What's going on in SC anyway? 🐒

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November 19, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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They're on sabbatical. #cartoons #cartoon #webcomic #comic #comics #art #monkeys #alphagenesis
The escaped monkey from Alpha Genesis in a lab coat handing in their contract to a human lab tech. The monkey is saying "We are terminating our contract."
November 14, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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#Escape! 🙈🙉🙊☣️Del #laboratorio de drogas experimentales y enfermedades infecciosas, #AlphaGenesis en #Carolina del Sur, el miércoles por la noche se les pelaron 43 #monos rhesus🐒
Autoridades piden a residentes cerrar puertas y ventanas.
Ningun mono ha sido capturado hasta el momento. 😬
November 8, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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43 monkeys escape their prison at #AlphaGenesis...

"...breeds monkeys & provides "nonhuman primate products and bio-research services" across the globe. The company's clinical trials reportedly include research on progressive brain disorders."

#StopAnimalAbuse

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43 monkeys escape South Carolina research facility; police warn residents to secure doors and windows
Traps have been set up and thermal imaging cameras are being used in an effort to locate the fugitive monkeys, police said.
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November 7, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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#12Monkeys 🐒🎬 #USA 🇺🇸 #AlphaGenesis 🧑‍🔬 #Pandemie ☣️

Einem Labor 🧫 sind 40 Affen entlaufen. Sie wollen nicht sagen, welchen Stoffen die ausgesetzt waren, aber raten, Türen und Fenster geschlossen zu halten. 🚪🪟🔒 Wer hatte das für 2024 noch auf seiner #Bingokarte 📋? 😉
November 7, 2024 at 2:12 PM