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"Monkeys rescued from DANGEROUS nicotine studies now have
a home in Gainesville sanctuary" -WUFT | They were abused in a
FDA lab basement for four years.





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Heck yeah, Taxpayer!!

Remember the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) baby monkey
addiction tests?

See below. FDA pumped nicotine into Gregory's veins for years.
You paid $5.5 million in taxes.

Well, earlier this week, I attended Gregory's official retirement
ceremony, where he and 26 of his survivor friends were retired
following WCW's historic campaign!

Taxpayer, that's pretty awesome. But it's not even our most
brag-worthy news.

As I witnessed Gregory's ribbon-cutting ceremony, the FDA also
enacted its first-ever policy to allow retirement of 2,000+ lab
survivors across the agency... instead of just killing them!

Taxpayer, you deserve to brag. YOU made the FDA #GiveThemBack!
😉

So please check out NPR's coverage of this beautiful event below.
Then brag to everyone you know!



Julie Germany
Board of Directors
White Coat Waste Project

P.S. Don't forget, the FDA also refused to hand over its secret
videos of Gregory's abuse. So we sued, got the tapes, shut down
the lab, and changed public policy! Let's do it again for his
friends at the National Institutes of Health!
If you haven't yet, please add your name in support of our
lawsuit so we can save the NIH monkeys, next.





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Monkeys Rescued From Dangerous
Nicotine Studies Now Have A Home In Gainesville Sanctuary

By LEXI FLECHNER
After four years of nicotine addiction studies, 26 male squirrel
monkeys that were released by the Federal Drug Administration
instead of being put to death found a new home in Gainesville at
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary.




One of the 26 squirrel monkeys retired from FDA nicotine testing.
(Lexi Flechner/WUFT News)
The FDA study, researching the behavioral and biological effects
of nicotine, was heavily criticized after four monkeys died, due
to complications during procedures.

The FDA terminated the study in 2018 after the White Coat Waste
Project, a lobbyist group that works to end animal testing in the
United States, uncovered it through a Freedom of Information Act
request.

The Arkansas-based study subjected the monkeys to isolation while
wearing vests that would pump nicotine into their veins when they
pressed a button. The study lasted four years before ultimately
being shut down.

Kari Bagnall, the executive director and founder of Jungle
Friends, said she was eager to welcome the monkeys because they
were the first research monkeys to ever to be retired by the FDA.

"They usually euthanize monkeys in labs," Bagnall said.

The sanctuary held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday to open new
enclosures even though the monkeys have been at the sanctuary for
a little over a year. The ceremony included a presentation about
the monkeys and the sanctuary as well as a tour of the squirrel
monkeys' new enclosure.




Actual diagram of addiction experiments from FDA lab notes.
Jungle Friends, which has been caring for monkeys since 1996, was
chosen by the FDA because it was the only one suitable for the
primates to live an "almost wild" life.

"Our goal is to build more of the indoor/outdoor facilities and
have them already set up here so the next time we get a call we
can get them out here immediately," Bagnall said.
Each enclosure at Jungle Friends is custom-built for the specific
species it will house. The separate enclosures hold three to four
monkeys each, organized based on the behavior of the monkeys
together, and have both indoor and outdoor components for them to
choose to explore.

The ceremony welcomed those instrumental in the rehabilitation
and care of these monkeys to celebrate the animal's new home.
Among the 30 people in attendance was Justin Goodman, vice
president of the White Coat Waste Project.

He said all 26 monkeys "seem to be incredibly well-adjusted and I
think that's a great credit to the people at Jungle Friends and
the care and time they've put into really helping them adjust to
life outside of a laboratory," Goodman said. "These monkeys have
never seen the sky or felt the wind or touched the grass or
climbed a tree so that was all new to them."




Sanctuary manager at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary Bri Fried
feeds one of the 26 squirrel monkeys raisins in its custom-built
enclosure. (Lexi Flechner/WUFT News)
Goodman worked on helping the monkeys get released after seeing
video footage of the tests.

"It was kind of surreal to see them outside in these beautiful
enclosures, out breathing the fresh air and climbing trees as
opposed to the videos when I first saw them when they were hooked
up to devices that were infusing nicotine into their veins,"
Goodman said. "It's a highlight of my life."

Bri Fried, the sanctuary manager at Jungle Friends, oversees the
care of all the animals at the sanctuary. She was instrumental in
the rehabilitation of the FDA monkeys from the lab environment to
their current almost wild enclosures.

"Getting to see them go outside for the first time and getting to
use those wild instincts that they're born with is a really great
feeling," Fried said.

Following the decision to release the monkeys, the FDA adopted a
policy allowing for retirement of all animals involved in
laboratory research.

"With the FDA's decision and how smoothly it went getting the
monkeys here, we are hoping it sets the standard," Goodman said.
"That's why we pushed so hard to get the FDA to adopt a policy so
we can see these happy endings again."

All of the monkeys released from the study are between four and
nine years old and they are expected to live to around 20 years
of age at Jungle Friends, the average age for squirrel monkeys in
the wild. The monkeys have so far showed no signs of long-term
damage from the study.

"It's like they've always been here," Goodman said. "They're
acting like monkeys, they're back to their wild nature."






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