Stop Animal Exploitation Now believes primates at UW-Madison are being tortured unnecessarily. Michael Budkie, Executive Director of SAEN, says that includes water deprivation for as much as 16 hours a day, 5 days a week.
“Various devices including restraining bars and recording cylinders are literally bolted to their skulls.”
Budkie claims from 2002-06, both UW-Madison and a private lab experimented on nearly 24,000 primates. The USDA claims not one of these tens of thousands of primates experienced any pain or distress, according to Budkie.