Kategorie: Animals

On Tuesday, PETA supporters in front of Johnston Gate, near the office of Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow, will show giant photos of the baby monkeys torn from their mothers and used by Harvard Medical School’s Margaret Livingstone for gruesome sensory deprivation procedures, along with signs that read, “Harvard: Shut Down Baby Monkey Lab Now!”

When:    Tuesday, March 7, 12 noon

Where:    Johnston Gate, Harvard Yard entrance at Peabody Street, Cambridge

“Livingstone’s pointless experiments produce nothing but terror for infant monkeys, who are stolen from their mothers and deprived of any face-to-face contact,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is urging Harvard to shut down Livingstone’s twisted ‘studies’ and retire these fragile primates to reputable sanctuaries.”

PETA first exposed Livingstone’s experiments, in which she steals baby monkeys from their mothers and sews their eyes shut in depraved sensory deprivation tests. Since then, nearly 400 scientists have joined the organization in urging Harvard to shut down her shop of horrors.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.

For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

To encourage empathy for animals who are mutilated and killed in university laboratories, PETA will visit Loyola and Tulane universities today to launch Abduction—a unique virtual reality experience that’s landing on college campuses across the country. In the eerie experience, visitors will enter a mysterious truck and put on a virtual reality headset. They’ll seemingly find themselves stranded in the desert with a couple of fellow humans, abducted by aliens, taken aboard a spaceship, and subjected to a terrifying experience similar to what animals endure in laboratories. They’ll watch as others are subjected to experiments—inspired by real tests done on animals—knowing that they’ll be next.

When:    Friday, March 3, 1–4 p.m.

Where:    6363 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans

Watch the trailer here. Broadcast-quality footage of the Abduction virtual reality experience is available upon request.

At Tulane, experimenters removed infant monkeys from their mothers within 24 hours of birth, infected them with a virus that causes chronic and deadly disease, and repeatedly injected them with drugs. They suffered from diarrhea, weight loss, severe colon inflammation, and brain lesions before being killed. Other experimenters injected monkeys with an experimental vaccine that caused them to develop neurological dysfunction, tremors, decreased appetite, weight loss, pallor, paralysis, seizures, and distress before they were killed. In another study, experimenters created lesions in dogs’ hearts by burning or freezing the tissue repeatedly for seven weeks before killing them and removing their hearts. In one incident at Tulane University, a young monkey died after being forgotten for nearly 22 hours in a vehicle. Just last month, PETA filed a complaint with the National Institutes of Health after a monkey’s head became trapped between a metal bar and the ceiling of a cage, causing the animal to suffocate to death.

“Many students don’t know that on their own college campuses, frightened and confused animals are being tormented, mutilated, and killed in cold, barren laboratories, with no way to escape or even understand what’s happening to them,” says PETA Senior Director Rachelle Owen. “PETA is on a mission to open young people’s eyes to this cruelty, help them understand what it feels like, and motivate them to join our call for a switch to superior, non-animal research.”

Studies show that 90% of all basic research—most of which involves animals—fails to lead to treatments for humans, which is why PETA is pushing universities to pivot to sophisticated, human-relevant research methods.

Abduction—which was filmed in VR180 with assistance from the virtual reality creation studio Prosper XR—has stopped at several other college campuses across the country.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Global progress to end experiments on animals! PETA scientists have joined a coalition of manufacturers, animal protection organizations, and international government agencies to stamp out all tests on animals for cosmetics and personal-care products. The coalition, officially named the International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety, or ICCS, has a mission to advance the adoption of non-animal testing methods through research, education, and regulatory engagement.

New companies join the ICCS nearly every month, with many big hitters—including Unilever, a company working for regulatory change and boasting 31 PETA-approved brands under its umbrella—already involved.

The ICCS is open to the following:

• Companies engaged in the manufacture of cosmetics products or ingredients
• National or regional associations that represent the interests of the cosmetics industry
• Nongovernmental organizations, government regulators, and other parties engaged in promoting human-relevant, animal-free test methods

Even though thousands of companies have banned all tests on animals for cosmetics and their ingredients, some countries—including China and the 27 member states of the European Union—still require such tests for ingredients or products in some circumstances. By collaborating with the ICCS, PETA scientists are working to advance the acceptance of non-animal methods worldwide for safety assessment purposes.

The ICCS is bringing together experts who are at the forefront of developing, evaluating, and using animal-free approaches for regulatory safety assessments. PETA scientists stand ready to serve as go-to experts as project planning gets underway, continuing and expanding dialog with regulators and offering to help with education and training initiatives.

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