For Speedy Free up:
January 9, 2024
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Seattle – Dressed in massive macaque monkey mask and preserving indicators that learn, “UW: Prevent Experimenting on Endangered Monkeys!” PETA supporters will rally within the College of Washington Board of Regents assembly on Thursday, urging the varsity to near the failing Washington Nationwide Primate Analysis Middle (WaNPRC), the place 1000’s of monkeys had been tormented and killed in painful experiments that experience did not enhance human well being.
When: Thursday, January 11, 12 midday
The place: College of Washington, Anthony’s Discussion board, Dempsey Corridor, 4273 E. Stevens Manner N.E., Seattle
“UW is racing to the ground of the science global by way of clinging to archaic experiments on endangered monkeys slightly than embracing trendy analysis strategies,” says PETA primate scientist Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel. “The Board of Regents has a duty to steer UW and will have to call for the closure of the primate middle right away.”
The WaNPRC is these days below investigation by way of the Washington State Division of Well being for the dying of monkey all through a botched process. UW has violated federal animal welfare rules and laws dozens of instances for incidents that come with the strangulation dying of a monkey. Veterinary mistakes have brought about the deaths of monkeys on the WaNPRC, and threatening sicknesses transmissible to people have inflamed monkeys on the college’s breeding facility in Arizona. UW was once compelled to pay greater than $540,000 for seeking to stay public information in regards to the screw ups within the WaNPRC’s partitions hidden.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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