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November 8, 2023
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Kendall Davis 202-483-7382
Bethesda, Md. – PETA is unveiling new adverts within the Washington, D.C., space on behalf of monkeys caged for years within the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) laboratory of experimenter Elisabeth Murray. These embody video footage of actual monkeys named Beamish and Guinness on a cell billboard circling the NIH campus and huge photographs of Guinness on Capital Bikeshare stands close by in Washington.
When: Thursday, November 9, 8:30–9:30 a.m.
The place: Close to the escalator on the Medical Middle Metro station, Bethesda
To kick it off, a larger-than-life Beamish mascot and PETA members will greet commuters tomorrow on the Medical Middle Metro station, which is utilized by many NIH staffers, and alert them to Murray’s merciless, taxpayer-funded monkey fright experiments.
“These merciless fright experiments are relics of decades-old laboratory abuse of monkeys that ought to have ended with the Chilly Struggle,” mentioned PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna. “NIH should shut down Elisabeth Murray’s fright experiments now and modernize its science.”
This display seize reveals a part of a video obtained by PETA by way of a Freedom of Data Act request.
In Murray’s laboratory, experimenters lower open monkeys’ skulls, inject their brains with toxins, and implant titanium rods of their skulls. The monkeys are then remoted in tiny cages and repeatedly offered with realistic-looking spiders and snakes in experiments deliberately designed to terrify them. Murray has obtained $50 million in taxpayer funding since 1998 for her curiosity-driven experiments.
Beamish’s and Guinness’ tales will likely be advised on a cell billboard circling the NIH campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on November 9. As well as, PETA’s messages calling on NIH to finish the wasteful experiments will seem on Capital Bikeshare stands on the following areas: Broad Department Street and Northampton Avenue N.W., Fessenden Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue N.W., McKinley Avenue and Connecticut Avenue N.W., Wisconsin Avenue and Ingomar Avenue N.W., and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery at Seventh and F streets N.W.
