Today marks the start of World Week for Animals in Laboratories.
I know, I’ve done many animal posts lately, but April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month so I must adhere to the theme. 🙂
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received an estimated $150 million in public funds in 2010. Approximately $1.7 million have gone to experimenters who drilled into the skulls of monkeys and implanted electrodes into their brains. Metal coils were implanted in their eyes, and experimenters strapped the monkeys into restraint chairs for hours at a time, forcing them to stare at a monitor. The monkeys were kept thirsty in order to force them to cooperate.
- Harvard University received an estimated $329 million in public money in 2010—much of it went to the school’s enormous New England Primate Research Center. More than $3.2 million has already been spent on just one experiment in which monkeys have tubes surgically implanted into their veins so that experimenters can inject cocaine and amphetamine into the monkeys, turning them into “tweakers.”
- Duke University received an estimated $439 million in public money in 2010. More than $1.4 million has already been spent on pointless xenotransplantation experiments in which pigs are killed so that experimenters can try in vain to implant their hearts and lungs into baboons. Despite repeated failures, Duke University has wasted decades of time and tens of millions of dollars pursuing this road to nowhere.
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received an estimated $382 million in public money in 2010. In one study, experimenters fractured baby rabbits’ noses and implanted plates and screws in four different places on their faces.
Please help PETA end this cruelty by using the form below to contact your representative and senators in Congress. Respectfully urge them to divert public money from cruel animal experiments into promising, lifesaving, and relevant clinical and non-animal research.