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August 16, 2022
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Seattle – Proper now and for the following month, sightseers aboard the Seattle Heart Monorail will get an eyeful of extra than simply the Area Needle. Ten screens on the Seattle Heart station are displaying can’t-be-missed messages calling for an finish to merciless monkey experiments, resembling these performed on the College of Washington (UW). The ten shows observe current information that animal experimentation is essentially accountable for 2 species of macaques’ new endangered standing—highlighting the pressing want for UW to cease utilizing and importing monkeys.
The adverts are positioned at 370 Thomas St., lower than a mile away from the Washington Nationwide Primate Analysis Heart (WaNPRC) at UW.
“Monorail riders shall be horrified to be taught that Seattle is dwelling to a secretive underground laboratory that cuts into endangered monkeys’ skulls, sickens the animals with illnesses, and takes infants from their moms,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “UW should shut this hellscape down and cease pushing monkeys to the brink of extinction.”
The WaNPRC is suffering from controversy—together with a number of critical violations of federal animal safety legal guidelines and state animal well being and import laws in addition to illness and poisonous waste exposures at its breeding facility in Arizona. Experimenters have left needles, gauze, and different surgical gear inside monkeys’ our bodies, toddler monkeys have died from undiagnosed illnesses and malnourishment, and workers have admitted to destroying information. These horrors and extra are why PETA advocates for a shift away from merciless and archaic experiments on animals and towards humane, fashionable analysis strategies, as detailed in its Analysis Modernization Deal.
Extra details about UW and the WaNPRC’s prolonged historical past of documented federal Animal Welfare Act violations is out there right here.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals will not be ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
