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Dear Friend,
There are seven national primate research centers (NPRC) scattered around the country, soaking up hundreds of millions of your tax dollars each year. Although these laboratories have been operating since the 1960s, you’ve likely never heard of them, as their experiments on monkeys have not produced a single marketable vaccine to advance human health.
Monkeys imprisoned at the Oregon National Primate Research Center.
NPRCs are coal in a solar world, eight-track tapes in a digital age. They are unnecessary, wasteful, and cruel. PETA is calling for all of them to be shut down immediately.
NPRCs conduct experiments such as single-neuron tracking, which involves cutting into monkeys’ skulls and inserting electrodes into their brains as they’re bolted in place and forced to watch a computer screen for hours a day. Other experiments, such as total-body irradiation, studies on junk food, and maternal-infant deprivation, are equally cruel and have also resulted in no marketable treatments for humans.
These monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center were covered in ink after workers tattooed their infants.
Monkeys at NPRCs have died from starvation, dehydration, strangulation, choking on their own vomit, being scalded in a high-temperature cage washer, and veterinary error. The Washington NPRC at the University of Washington is currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for escapes of monkeys and conflicts of interest on its experimentation oversight committee.
We are in an age of sophisticated human-based methods that allow for research into the causes of and treatments for disease in humans, without tormenting sensitive and vulnerable animals in painful, invasive, and traumatic experiments that will not lead to treatments or cures.
Please join PETA in calling on the government to defund the NPRCs!
Thank you for all you do to help living, feeling beings.
Sincerely,
Kathy Guillermo
Senior Vice President
PETA
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