Primate Torture Compared to Abu Ghraib

Published March 10, 2008 by PETA Staff. Last Updated October 14, 2013.

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What’s up PETA Files readers! You may be familiar with our recent University of Washington action alert (made by yours truly, so you know it’s a good one). Well, PETA recently threw a demo in regards to this alert causing an attention-grabbing article to come about.

Nearly 100 PETA supporters gathered in front of a University of Washington animal research laboratory last week for a very compelling protest. So compelling, in fact, that it persuaded Seattle-Pi columnist Robert Jamieson Jr. to write this excellent article, comparing the torture that primates go through in labs to the horrors of Abu Ghraib.

Check out the article here and if you haven’t yet, please take action on this important campaign here and ask the National Eye Institute to stop funding these cruel experiments at the University of Washington and everywhere.

Truly,Christine <3

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