Animal-Rights Group Accuses 4 Universities of Violations

The animal-rights watchdog group SAEN, or Stop Animal Exploitation NOW, says it has filed new complaints with federal authorities about four public universities — the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of California’s campuses at Davis and at San Francisco — saying that internal documents obtained by SAEN show abuses of dozens of primates in their research laboratories. The filings echo similar complaints in March from the Humane Society of the United States, and follow a May finding by the U.S. Agriculture Department that criticized the New Iberia center.