
For Immediate Release:
May 24, 2023
Contact:
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
Amherst, Mass. â As University of MassachusettsâAmherst (UMass) graduates and their families arrive at the schoolâs commencement ceremony on Friday, PETA supporters in funereal garb and marmoset masks will pose in coffins to call attention to the monkeys killed in the schoolâs cruel âmenopauseâ experiments. A PETA âmournerâ will play video footage recorded inside the laboratory where these experiments are carried out, revealing how the animals there are tormented in costly and useless studies.
When: Friday, May 26, 8:30 a.m.
Where: Outside Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium, Stadium Drive, Amherst
UMass experimenter AgnĂšs Lacreuse cuts into and screws electrodes onto monkeysâ skulls, cuts into their necks, deprives them of water, restrains them for hours at a time, and torments them in various other ways, purportedly to study menopauseâwhich marmosets donât even experience. To simulate menopause, Lacreuse surgically removes the monkeysâ ovaries, administers hormone-manipulating drugs to the animals, and uses hand warmers on the monkeysâ bodies to mimic hot flashes.
âThese pointless experiments on marmosets wonât help a single UMass graduate, but they do cause immense suffering and death,â says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. âPETA is calling on UMass to make alums proud by ending invasive experiments on monkeys who value their lives as much as we value ours.â
PETAâwhose motto reads, in part, that âanimals are not ours to experiment onââopposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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Source: Peta.org