Giant PETA ‘Spider’ to expose JHU’s web of lies about the owl experiment
For immediate release:
January 25, 2022
Contact:
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
Baltimore – PETA’s unmissable 40-foot-tall “spider” will coil its web around the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) campus on Thursday to expose the web of lies JHU is revolving around its deadly lab experiments. Shreesh Mysore experiment on owls.
When: Thursday, January 27, 12 noon
Where: JHU, at the intersection of N. Charles and E. 34order street, Baltimore
Mysore cut into the skulls of caged owls, implanted electrodes in their brains, locked them up, clamped their eyes open and bombarded them with sound and light for up to 12 hours. When the owls’ brains became too damaged for further tests, he killed them.
JHU claims that these taxpayer-funded experiments could somehow help treat attention disorders in humans – but owls’ visual and auditory systems are vastly different from those of humans and Mysore has publicly admitted that he may have “misinterpreted” what was going on in the brains of the early birds of whom he caught in the right spot. The absurdity of the experiments matched only their recent illegality, as he had not obtained the required license to use owls in this laboratory for many years.
“Studying the brains of birds trapped, frightened when they are forced to stare at a computer screen tells us nothing about human attention disorders,” said Shalin Gala, Vice President PETA said. “JHU should stop trying to protect the indisputable, give up on owl torture, and instead commit to funding ethical, effective, animal-free research.”
PETA — in part, their motto that “animals are not our experiments” — advocates speciesism, a human worldview – supremacy. For more information on PETA’s news collection and investigative reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebookor Instagram.