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Haunting new street exhibit demands an end to animals in laboratories

The two 7-foot-by-7-foot cubes are covered with almost 200 stories of animals used in real-life experiments from decades ago through the present.

PETA: At this moment, more than 100 million living, feeling beings… are being held prisoner in laboratories in the U.S… In the midst of the global pandemic and the public’s growing awareness of inequality, PETA unveiled a new exhibit, “Without Consent,” to open people’s eyes to the long history of suffering inflicted on non-consenting animals in laboratories and to challenge them to rethink this exploitation. The enormous exhibit debuted in Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill, where research budgets are debated and allocated… [Check here for upcoming tour dates and locations]…

“Without Consent” draws a line from the past exploitation of vulnerable humans, including immigrant women in experimental gynecological surgeries, soldiers in LSD and poison gas tests, impoverished Black men in syphilis experiments, and orphans in tuberculosis experiments, to the torture of millions of animals in laboratories today. The exhibit graphically illustrates that society now understands that this human exploitation was wrong — and now, we need to see that the abuse of animals in laboratories is also wrong and must end.

The two 7-foot-by-7-foot cubes are covered with almost 200 stories of animals used in real-life experiments from decades ago through the present — including dogs forced to inhale cigarette smoke for months or electroshocked so many times that they gave up even trying to escape, newborn monkeys taken from their mothers and raised alone in a “pit of despair” to induce devastating mental illness, hamsters addicted to street drugs and forced to fight, mice who were cut up while still alive and conscious, and cats who were deafened, drowned, and paralyzed…

We need to find a better way — and PETA scientists have developed it. The Research Modernization Deal outlines a roadmap and strategy for ending experiments on animals—and for conducting research that’s relevant to humans… copies have been sent to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies—except for the Environmental Protection Agency, which has already… began phasing out animal tests. SOURCE…

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