• White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is urging Congress to defund Alpha Genesis, a notorious taxpayer-funded primate breeder and experimentation laboratory where 43 monkeys just escaped
• Over 10,000 primates are imprisoned at the company’s facilities, including 3,300 on Fauci’s Monkey Island—first exposed by WCW in 2021—that Alpha Genesis currently runs via a $23 million NIH contract
• The company raked in $19 million in tax money in 2024 and over $110 million since 2008 from federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control(CDC), and the Department of Defense (DOD)
• In tax-funded experiments, primates from the lab have their skulls drilled into, electrodes implanted in their brains, are infected with deadly viruses like Ebola, infested with ticks, and forcibly addicted to cocaine and fentanyl
• Congress is demanding answers and WCW is working to pass the PRIMATES Act to defund painful primate experiments

In 2021, a White Coat Waste Project investigation exposed Dr. Fauci’s Monkey Island in South Carolina, where over 3,300 primates are confined at taxpayer expense to supply cruel and wasteful experiments.  We uncovered how roughly 500 primates are plucked from the National Institutes of Health-funded island and shipped to government labs where they’re subjected to extraordinarily painful experiments and infected with the most dangerous and deadly diseases known to man. 

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) cited WCW’s Monkey Island investigation and called out the NIH’s wasteful spending in his Festivus report last year.

Now, Alpha Genesis, the company that the NIH is paying $22.8 million to run the island and breed monkeys for taxpayer-funded experiments, is under scrutiny from WCW, Congress, the press, and the public after 43 primates escaped from one of its mainland facilities.

WCW has been all over the media exposing this wasteful spending on primate abuse and calling for the facility to finally be defunded.

Including Monkey Island, Alpha Genesis runs facilities in South Carolina confining over 10,000 primates and also performs painful experiments on many of them, in addition to shipping them to taxpayer-funded labs.

In 2024 alone, Alpha Genesis raked in at least $19 million in taxpayer funding—all from NIH.  In total, they’ve directly received over $110 million in federal funding since 2008, including millions in special COVID-19 emergency funding and a $1 million COVID bailout.

These funding figures are primarily for Alpha Genesis’s breeding and confinement. They do not include the millions of additional funding the firm gets yearly from labs that buy monkeys or hire them to do experiments with taxpayer dollars.

In recent years, the NIH, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Defense are among the federal agencies that have funded experiments on primates at, or obtained from, Alpha Genesis.

This monkey was infected with a deadly disease in an NIH lab that obtains animals from the NIH’s Alpha Genesis-run Monkey Island. Actual photo obtained by WCW investigators.

Through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the NIH, WCW obtained the video below from inside an NIH bioagent lab that obtains primates from Monkey Island.

In recent tax-funded experiments, primates from Alpha Genesis have had their skulls drilled into and electrodes implanted in their brains, were infected with deadly viruses like Ebola, were infested with ticks, and were forcibly addicted to cocaine and fentanyl.

This monkey was infected with a deadly disease in an NIH lab that obtains animals from the NIH’s Alpha Genesis-run Monkey Island. Actual photo obtained by WCW investigators.

Taxpayer funding for Alpha Genesis has continued to flow despite the company’s wasteful primate experiments and long history of animal escapes and other federal violations. 

Citing documents obtained by WCW, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)—who represents the Congressional district where Alpha Genesis is located—is demanding answers about federal funding and oversight of the lab from the NIH and USDA in a new letter.

For years, WCW has been leading efforts to find, expose, and defund cruel and wasteful government primate testing at the NIH and other federal agencies.  WCW’s campaigns and lobbying have shut down tax-funded monkey business and drastically reduced primate experiments at the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs to historic lows.

Now we’re working with Rep. Mace to pass the PRIMATES Act to defund the NIH’s painful testing on monkeys at labs like Alpha Genesis and prevent animals living on Monkey Island from being shipped to labs for deadly experiments.

 

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