{"id":756668,"date":"2019-03-30T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756668"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:07:26","slug":"peta-sues-oregon-primate-research-center-for-footage-of-primate-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756668","title":{"rendered":"PETA sues Oregon Primate Research Center for footage of primate experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SFGATE:<\/strong><em> &#8216;People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has filed a lawsuit to compel Oregon Health &amp; Science University to release footage of experiments on monkeys at its Oregon National Primate Research Center. The Oregonian\/OregonLive reports that the experiments at the Hillsboro center were taxpayer-funded and video of those experiments should be released under Oregon&#8217;s open records law, according to PETA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Oregon lawsuit was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court&#8230; The lawsuit asks OHSU to produce &#8220;public records relating to maternal nutrition experiments conducted on mother-infant or mother-juvenile pairs of monkeys, and experiments relating to self-injurious behavior.&#8221; PETA said it previously obtained footage from an OHSU experiment &#8220;in which young monkeys were deliberately frightened with a Mr. Potato Head toy&#8221;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/education\/article\/PETA-sues-university-lab-for-footage-of-primate-13724740.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YU-0SNemRnA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFGATE: &#8216;People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has filed a lawsuit to compel Oregon Health &amp; Science University to release footage of experiments on monkeys at its Oregon National Primate Research Center. The Oregonian\/OregonLive reports that the experiments at the Hillsboro center were taxpayer-funded and video of those experiments should be released under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,23,24,25],"tags":[27,29,35],"class_list":["post-756668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-rights","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756670,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756668\/revisions\/756670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}