A new study conducted by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) found the University of Wisconsin-Madison committed more animal rights violations over a recent two-year period than any other top-funded university in the country.
The study, published in the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law’s Journal of Animal and Environmental Law Monday, studied the top 20 universities receiving the most funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the 2023 fiscal year.
PETA, an anti-“speciesism” organization that promotes a vegan lifestyle, obtained each schools’ Public Health Service (PHS) violations through open records requests and identified UW-Madison as the “worst offender” of animal welfare of the universities studied, with 35 violations against animals on record between Oct. 1, 2021 and Sep. 30, 2023, based on institutional self-reports. The runner-up, the University of Washington, committed 29 violations during that same period…