Watch Now: Harvard Experimenter Blames Cartoons for Empathy Toward Animals
Margaret Livingstone wants you to believe that children’s television programs, books, and other media featuring talking animals are hindering progress toward a better understanding of human maladies and possible cures, effectively stalling scientific advancement.
It’s Bambi’s fault.
In muddled ramblings on a personal webpage, Livingstone—who has made a career of sewing shut the eyelids of baby monkeys and conducting other depraved experiments at Harvard University—recently suggested that children’s cartoons are a contributing factor to the acceptance of one of PETA’s core principles: Other animals are not ours to experiment on.
Here’s an idea, Marge: Maybe it has to do with the overwhelming and ever-growing body of evidence of other animals’ sentience and complex mental and emotional lives. But what do we know?
Livingstone fails to acknowledge that nearly 400 experts, including world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, have condemned her abuse of vulnerable monkeys as both cruel and unscientific. They were probably deluded by cartoons, too.
Instead, she levies a plethora of grievances against PETA, declares herself an innocent victim of our wrath, and, at one point, even brags about how adept she is at stitching shut the eyelids of infant monkeys. (Why she’s allowed to do this when she’s neither a medical doctor nor a veterinarian is another issue.)
She beams over Harry Harlow, the father of sadistic experiments on monkeys, who devised the “rape rack” and the “pit of despair.”
And she goes on and on like that. To spare your time and protect your sanity, PETA has put together a concise video exposing the absurdity of Livingstone’s speciesist ramblings while avoiding her allergy to the truth.
What You Can Do
After viewing the video, please TAKE ACTION by demanding that Harvard shut down Livingstone’s lab:
Then, please urge the National Institutes of Health to stop funding her pointless experiments through its BRAIN Initiative:
