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Bethesda, Md. – PETA is unveiling new commercials within the Washington, D.C., house on behalf of monkeys caged for years within the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray. Those come with video photos of actual monkeys named Beamish and Guinness on a cellular billboard circling the NIH campus and big pictures of Guinness on Capital Bikeshare stands within sight in Washington.
When: Thursday, November 9, 8:30–9:30 a.m.
The place: Close to the escalator on the Clinical Heart Metro station, Bethesda
To kick it off, a larger-than-life Beamish mascot and PETA individuals will greet commuters the next day to come on the Clinical Heart Metro station, which is utilized by many NIH staffers, and alert them to Murray’s merciless, taxpayer-funded monkey fright experiments.
“Those merciless fright experiments are relics of decades-old laboratory abuse of monkeys that are supposed to have ended with the Chilly Struggle,” stated PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “NIH should close down Elisabeth Murray’s fright experiments now and modernize its science.”
This display screen seize displays a part of a video got by way of PETA via a Freedom of Knowledge Act request.
In Murray’s laboratory, experimenters lower open monkeys’ skulls, inject their brains with toxins, and implant titanium rods of their skulls. The monkeys are then remoted in tiny cages and time and again introduced with realistic-looking spiders and snakes in experiments deliberately designed to terrify them. Murray has won $50 million in taxpayer investment since 1998 for her curiosity-driven experiments.
Beamish’s and Guinness’ tales can be advised on a cellular billboard circling the NIH campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on November 9. As well as, PETA’s messages calling on NIH to finish the wasteful experiments will seem on Capital Bikeshare stands on the following places: Huge Department Highway and Northampton Side road N.W., Fessenden Side road and Wisconsin Street N.W., McKinley Side road and Connecticut Street N.W., Wisconsin Street and Ingomar Side road N.W., and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery at 7th and F streets N.W.