‘UMass Murderers’: PETA to Crash Founders Day Campus Cookout Over Bizarre Monkey Menopause Tests
For Immediate Release:
April 25, 2024
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
On Monday, PETA supporters will gather at the Founders Day Campus Cookout at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass) bearing a 10-foot banner calling on the school to stop tormenting tiny marmoset monkeys in bizarre and deadly menopause experiments.
Where: Haigis Mall, 300 Massachusetts Ave., Amherst
When: Monday, April 29, 12 noon
In these useless tests—which have already cost taxpayers more than $5 million—workers in UMass experimenter Agnès Lacreuse’s laboratory surgically remove marmosets’ reproductive organs, screw electrodes into their skulls, deprive them of food and water, and heat their tiny bodies with hand warmers. This is all to induce symptoms of menopause, which marmosets don’t naturally experience. Once they’re finished with the monkeys, they kill them and dissect their brains. The laboratory’s long history of animal welfare violations includes severely burning a marmoset with hand warmers, failing to alert an attending veterinarian to sick animals, and permitting a monkey to escape and injuring his tail during recapture.
“As UMass officials spend Founders Day making merry with friends and enjoying the festivities, tiny monkeys are living in loneliness, pain, and fear in barren cages in Agnès Lacreuse’s living hell of a laboratory just across campus,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is calling on UMass to join the 21st century, shut down these ridiculous experiments, and embrace modern, human-relevant research.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness.
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