{"id":125361,"date":"2011-08-08T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/issues\/silver-spring-monkeys\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:48:04","slug":"silver-spring-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"issue","link":"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/issues\/animals-used-for-experimentation\/silver-spring-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Spring Monkeys: The Case That Launched PETA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the summer of 1981,<\/strong> PETA’s founder, Ingrid Newkirk<\/a>, leafed through the pages of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s list of laboratories, picked the closest one, and asked her colleague, Alex, to see if he could get inside. He did and began working as a volunteer at the Institute for Behavioral Research<\/a> (IBR). IBR was a federally funded laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, now closed down for reasons that will soon become apparent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What PETA Found Inside the Laboratory in Silver Spring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was run out of a warehouse by psychologist and animal experimenter Edward Taub, a man with no medical training<\/em><\/strong>. There, we found 17 monkeys living in tiny rusty wire cages caked with years of accumulated feces in a dungeon<\/strong>-like room. There was no veterinarian<\/em> to tend to their serious wounds, and they had a lot of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WATCH:<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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