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PETA Claims Monkeys Harmed At UMass Amherst Lab, Demands Feds Investigate
PETA is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to look into what it describes as animal welfare violations at a lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. However, the university said it follows all laws concerning animals used in laboratory testing. Agnès Lacreuse, a professor at UMass-Amherst who studies menopause using marmosets, is accused by the nonprofit organization of violating the Animal Welfare Act after one monkey in her lab escaped confinement and injured another caged monkey. The monkey's escape on May 14 is the fourth one in recent years, among several other …