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November 18, 2023
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New Haven, CT – New Haven, Conn. — Earlier right now, two practically nude PETA supporters bodypainted as macaques, sporting tails, and holding indicators that learn, “Harvard: Finish Monkey Exams!” to protest Harvard experimenter Margaret Livingstone’s terrifying maternal and sensory deprivation checks on monkeys interrupted the annual Harvard-Yale soccer sport within the third quarter. Police took away their indicators and detained the 2 bodypainted girls in addition to a 3rd protester sporting a “Harvard: Shut Down the Monkey Lab” T-shirt. All three have been arrested. Images and video are out there right here.
“Livingstone’s twisted experiments inflict irreversible hurt on lonely, terrified child monkeys, and never a single remedy for people has resulted from this torment,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is urging Harvard to close down Livingstone’s lab of horrors.”
Throughout her experiments, Livingstone has ripped child monkeys away from their moms, sewn the infants’ eyes shut for as much as a yr, after which noticed how abnormally their imaginative and prescient developed. In different checks, the motherless child monkeys are reared by people sporting welding masks in order that the traumatized animals by no means see a monkey or human face. Then Livingstone immobilizes their heads utilizing head posts, chin straps, and chew bars to check their facial-processing skills or surgically implants electrodes of their brains to report how their disadvantaged mind cells reply to visible stimuli. After years of torment, she kills lots of the monkeys and dissects their brains. She has performed these kinds of curiosity-driven experiments for 40 years with out figuring out a remedy or remedy for people.
Along with disrupting the Harvard-Yale soccer sport, PETA is operating a 15-second TV spot within the Hartford metropolitan space now via Sunday, November 26, that exhibits a buyer eager to know the way a lot a prescription prices—and a computer-generated monkey, tattooed with an ID quantity and wheezing via a respiration tube, has the reply: “An excessive amount of.” The spot calls on locals to induce lawmakers to help PETA’s Analysis Modernization Deal, the world’s first complete plan for phasing out using animals in experimentation.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org, take heed to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
