For immediate release:
April 6, 2021
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Amanda Hayes 202-483-7382
Washington – PETA has launched a fully interactive online exhibit titled “Without agreement”, Which explores 100 years of suffering caused by dissenting animals in laboratories, and attempts to change the usual business. Visitors to Without Consent can flip through the decades from 1920 to 2020 and learn how baby monkeys were taken from their mothers and raised alone in a “pit of despair” to cause horrific mental illness, cats were stunned and their spines cut, and there are so many dogs were once subjected to electric shocks that they stopped trying to escape.
The exhibition debuted for the first time as a three-dimensional, large-scale installation on Capitol Hill featuring a statue of a dog and a rat with the caption: “Imagine your body is left to science. while you’re still in it… »The physical version of the exhibit will continue to travel the United States in 2021, with plans to host it in city centers as well as colleges and universities.
PETA will use the virtual timeline to prompt the new administration to rethink the National Institutes of Health’s allocation of taxpayer dollars to animal experiments – an exploitative, expensive, painful, unreliable and archaic view of science.
As the graph shows, many cruel practices continue. Mice are force-fed with experimental chemicals and forced to inhale toxic chemicals in Charles River Laboratories, monkeys are used in invasive surgical procedures and are repeatedly held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and baby monkeys are still torn away from their mothers.
“Without Consent” tells real stories of animals who were tortured and killed in painful experiments that they did not allow and could not agree to, says Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA. “PETA says it’s time for the US government to acknowledge that just as experiments on dissenting humans (such as LSD studies on soldiers and tuberculin experiments on orphans) were wrong, we must stop torturing animals in laboratories. “.
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…