Exhibition Opens As PETA Calls For UMass To Modernize And Ditch Monkey Testing
For immediate release:
May 5, 2021
Contact:
Amanda Hayes 202-483-7382
Amherst, Massachusetts. – In the midst of a growing awareness of cultural bias, PETA is building a large exhibition titled “Without agreement, ”Which explores the complex history of animal experimentation and challenges institutes including the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) to rethink this exploitative, costly, cruel and archaic idea of science and replace it with state of the art. the latest research methods. The two 7-by-7-foot cubes contain brief descriptions and photographs of nearly 200 animal experiments conducted in US institutions from the 1920s to the present day. They will be on display in the historic Amherst Town Common building for four days, starting tomorrow at 12 noon.
When: Thursday, May 6, 12 noon
Where: Amherst North Town Common (at the intersection of Main and Boltwood Ave)
“Without Consent” uses a historical perspective to indicate that since the Middle Ages, experiments have been conducted on vulnerable people, including orphans with tuberculosis and psychological experiments, immigrant women in gynecological surgeries, soldiers in LSD and poison gas trials, and also on poor black men experimenting with syphilis. The exhibition demonstrates that just as society now realizes that it was wrong, we must allow this moral awakening to guide our behavior today and thus pay attention to other dissenting creatures who suffer and die in experiments, from testing floor cleaning products to mother and child. division of research.
The launch of the Amherst facility coincides with the start of the battle between PETA and UMass. PETA released a shocking video of a UMass study showing deeply disturbed monkeys circling and pacing in small metal cages, and then PETA scientists asked to meet with UMass officials to help them replace research involving monkeys and other animals with a modern state. artistic techniques. However, Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy canceled the meetings after one session, although he admitted that the ideas presented were impressive – saying that he was backing down under pressure from tenured professors who are still experimenting on animals and are not interested in changing their behavior.
“Without Consent tells true stories of animals that were unnecessarily harmed and killed in painful experiments that they would not allow and could not agree to,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Humans are just one of many animal species, and the ability to exploit others does not give us the right to do so.”
PETA’s installation depicts baby monkeys that were taken from their mothers and raised alone in a “pit of despair” to cause a terrible mental illness, cats that were stunned and had their spines cut, dogs that were electrocuted so many times, that they refused to escape, and the mice that were burned drowned and opened without anesthetics… UMass Currently imprisoning dozens of monkeys to study hot flashes experienced by women during menopause, although volunteers are willing, willing, and able to participate instead. In recent years, UMass experimenters have subjected female monkeys to invasive procedures, during which electrodes are implanted into holes drilled in their skulls, incisions are made to expose the muscles of the neck, and leads from the scalp and neck are threaded through their abdomen. In another UMass experiment, castrated male monkeys were injected with testosterone and then tested for their cognitive function.
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