The South Carolina biomedical lab that saw 43 monkeys escape earlier this month is again being criticized for allegedly killing up to 20 monkeys after a diesel heater inside the facility malfunctioned sometime Friday night, according to PETA whistleblowers.
"There were no alarms, no alerts, as 20 long-tailed macaques likely endured agonizing deaths—either slowly roasted alive or suffocated by deadly carbon dioxide fumes," PETA revealed in a statement obtained by Bluffton Today. "The images this conjures are beyond disturbing: sentient creatures, confined and helpless, betrayed by a system that prioritizes profit over basic decency or scientific competency."
