For Speedy Unlock:
January 23, 2024
Touch:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Cambridge, Mass. – In a dizzying show, PETA supporters dressed in monkey mask will descend on Harvard College’s campus the next day as “experimenters” in lab coats torment them with strobe lighting. The peculiar scene is supposed to imitate Harvard experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s newest merciless take a look at, during which she completely separates child monkeys from their moms and forces them to put on helmets with shuttered goggles that swiftly open and shut, making a strobe-light impact. The babies are made to put on the units for a 12 months and a part, successfully forcing them to reside in perpetual and disorienting strobe lighting fixtures all day lengthy for 18 months.
When: Wednesday, January 24, 12 midday
The place: Johnston Gate (on the intersection of Peabody Side road and Massachusetts Street), Harvard College, Cambridge
“Livingstone’s unnecessary experiments have by no means produced anything else as opposed to ache and anguish for the monkeys stolen from their moms and subjected to her twisted assessments,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is urging Harvard to close down Livingstone’s area of horrors.”
Livingstone’s experiments—which were broadly panned as unethical within the medical group—have additionally integrated ripping child monkeys clear of their moms and stitching their eyes close for a whole 12 months. In some other experiment, toddler monkeys are reared by means of people dressed in welding mask in order that they by no means see a monkey or human face. She additionally surgically implants electrodes in monkeys’ brains to report how their disadvantaged mind cells reply to visible stimuli. After years of torment, Livingstone kills a lot of them and dissects their brains. She has performed some of these curiosity-driven experiments for 40 years with out generating a unmarried remedy or remedy for people.
Along with preserving the next day’s demonstration, PETA is urging former President Barack Obama to sentence those twisted experiments that experience won greater than $2 million in taxpayer budget from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being’s BRAIN Initiative, which was once introduced all over the Obama management.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—issues out that Each Animal Is Anyone and gives unfastened Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness.
For more info, please consult with PETA.org or practice the gang on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.