For immediate release:
June 10, 2021
Contact:
Amanda Hayes 202-483-7382
Seattle – On Saturday, a group of PETA supporters will take a huge statue of a monkey with over 236,000 signatures to the petition, first to the Red Square of the University of Washington (University of Washington) and then to Kirkland, home of the dean of the School of Contemporary Art. Pharmacy, Sean D. Sullivan, urges university staff to close Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC). Sullivan is the chief investigator for a federal grant that funds the institution.
When: Saturday, June 12, 11:00
Where: Red Square UW, 4063 Spokane Ln., Seattle
When: Saturday, June 12, 14.00
Where: Sullivan House
WaNPRC is under investigation by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Agriculture and its sponsor, the National Institutes of Health, for gross violations of federal animal welfare laws. He has not produced any marketable vaccines, but he is responsible for the suffering and death of thousands of monkeys from strangulation, dehydration, hunger, trauma from other stressed monkeys, and veterinary errors – in violation of animal welfare laws. Watch a video showing how some of the WaNPRC monkeys live.
“The primate center’s experiments with caged monkeys in distraught and sick monkeys are not improving human health,” said PETA senior scientific adviser Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, who previously worked at the site. PETA urges UW to follow Harvard’s lead and close the primate pit of despair.
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