For Immediate Release:
March 14, 2023
Contact:
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
West Palm Beach, Fla. – A giant jailed “monkey” and stuffed “primates” will join PETA supporters outside the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa on Thursday during an alumni event for the University of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass) to protest the school’s cruel and deadly menopause experiments on marmosets.
When: Thursday, March 16, 2:45 p.m.
Where: Outside the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan
UMass experimenter Agnès Lacreuse cuts into and screws electrodes into monkeys’ 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 menopause, a condition marmosets don’t experience. To simulate the condition, Lacreuse cuts out their ovaries and uses hand warmers on their bodies to mimic hot flashes. She has squandered $5 million in taxpayer funds on this farce.
“Life is anything but a beach vacation for the marmosets who remain imprisoned inside cold, sterile laboratory cages,” says PETA neuroscientist Dr. Katherine Roe. “PETA urges the UMass community to demand an end to this costly monkey torment.”
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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