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November 20, 2023
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Madison, Wis. – As a result of “Madtown” is house to the infamous Wisconsin Nationwide Primate Analysis Middle on the College of Wisconsin–Madison, PETA is operating this advert on native airwaves that asks viewers to think about the deathly excessive stakes for animals struggling in laboratories. Within the 15-second spot, a “buyer” desires to know the way a lot a prescription will price—and a computer-generated monkey, tattooed with an ID quantity and wheezing by way of a respiration tube, has the reply: “An excessive amount of.”
“Monkeys are caged, mutilated, tormented, and killed in laboratories for pointless experiments that don’t profit human well being,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is rallying viewers to face up towards these horrors and be part of us in calling on UW-Madison to pivot to classy, human-relevant analysis strategies.”
Despite the fact that research present that 90% of all fundamental analysis—most of which includes animals—fails to result in remedies for people, UW-Madison’s primate heart nonetheless imprisons and torments greater than 2,400 monkeys for experiments. A six-month PETA undercover investigation revealed that monkeys had been held in barren cages and bleak windowless rooms and had been so traumatized by excessive long-term confinement that they ceaselessly circled their tiny cages and pulled out their very own hair.
PETA’s advert will run on native FOX affiliate WMSN in the course of the 9 p.m. information a dozen instances by way of December 4. PETA can be airing the advert on stations in San Antonio, Texas, the place the Southwest Nationwide Primate Analysis Middle is situated.
Quite a few advertisers in a number of cities, together with Indianapolis; Reno, Nevada; and San Diego, refused to run the spot, deeming it “too graphic,” though it doesn’t function actual animals, gore, or blood.
PETA’s motto reads, “Animals should not ours to experiment on, eat, put on, use for leisure, or abuse in every other means.” For extra info, please go to PETA.org, take heed to The PETA Podcast, or observe the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
