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For immediate release:
August 27, 2021
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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Amherst, Massachusetts. – Tomorrow, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) Kumble Subbaswamy will wake up to a new PETA mobile billboard rolling around his neighborhood criticizing the school for caging, torturing and killing monkeys to study menopause –a condition that monkeys do not experience… In an effort to end reverse research at the University of Massachusetts, a billboard will also take to the streets in downtown Amherst to alert students, faculty and others around the campus.
To rake in almost 4 million dollars University of Massachusetts experimenter Agnes Lacreuse drills holes in the turtles of little monkeys, inserts electrodes through their abdomen, attaches zippers to restraints, and overheats them with hand warmers, ostensibly to simulate menopausal hot flashes.
“These painful studies have nothing to say about menopause, but UMass continues to understand that the benign and gentle nature of monkeys is easy to exploit,” says PETA vice president Dr. Alka Chandna. PETA urges Chancellor Subbaswamy to use taxpayers’ hard-earned money for modern testing methods rather than fictitious cruel experiments.
The group notes that the animals also suffer from the negligence of the UMass experimenters and laboratory staff. The reports documented violations of federal animal welfare regulations: mice drowned, birds starved to death, and zebrafish died from overheating. In one case, the experimenters were unable to anesthetize several hundred mice that had just undergone surgery.
A Pew Research Center poll found that the majority of the US adult population opposes the use of animals in scientific research. And research shows that a staggering 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals, does not lead to cures in humans.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes arrogance, a worldview focused on human excellence. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…
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