For Speedy Launch:
October 25, 2021
Contact:
Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382
Norfolk, Va. – Identified fictionally as “1428 Elm St.,” the Los Angeles home whose facade seems within the 1984 horror traditional A Nightmare on Elm Avenue is up on the market, with affords due by Halloween. So in the present day, PETA sent a letter to Heather T. Roy and Learka Bosnak of Douglas Elliman Actual Property, urging the brokers to present the house one other flip within the highlight—this time as a pop-up empathy museum to honor the lots of of animals tortured in “monkey fright” experiments which have been performed for many years utilizing taxpayer funds from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and are nonetheless happening in the present day.
Whereas the movie’s villain, Freddy Krueger, makes use of a razor-clawed glove to torture his victims of their sleep, real-life tormenter and authorities experimenter Elisabeth Murray cuts into monkeys’ heads, saws off a portion of their skulls to expose the brain, and then injects toxins into it. Afterward, the monkeys are positioned alone in a small steel cage and experimenters got down to scare them with faux however realistic-looking snakes and spiders. Finally, they’re killed.
“Krueger’s torment was fictional, however monkey fright experiments happen in a real-life home of horror,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA’s pop-up museum would foster empathy for animals utilized in concern experiments that little doubt give them nightmares till they’re killed.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to make use of in experiments”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
PETA’s letter to Roy and Bosnak follows.
October 25, 2021
Heather T. Roy and Learka Bosnak
Actual Property Brokers
Douglas Elliman
Pricey Ms. Roy and Ms. Bosnak:
PETA entities have greater than 9 million members and supporters globally, together with lots of of hundreds throughout California. I’m writing to you on behalf of PETA U.S., the most important animal rights group on this planet, to be taught extra concerning the property positioned at 1428 N. Genesee Ave. in Spaulding Sq.. Provided that that is the house identified for showing within the horror traditional A Nightmare on Elm Avenue, we’re excited about exploring the opportunity of changing it right into a pop-up empathy museum for the lots of of monkeys tortured over time in “monkey fright” experiments.
You might already be accustomed to Freddy Krueger, who sadistically terrorizes, tortures, and kills his victims whereas they sleep utilizing a razor-claw glove. Though he’s a fictional character, in actual life, many victims bear comparable painful, scary experiences in Elisabeth Murray’s “cash fright” experiments performed on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being. She cuts into monkeys’ heads, saws off a portion of their skulls, chemically burns components of their brains, confines them to a steel field, after which terrorizes them with realistic-looking rubber snakes and spiders. Afterward, she leaves the monkeys inside a chrome steel cage whereas she goes house to her costly condominium.
We’re all the time on the lookout for methods to name consideration to the violence inherent in crude and merciless experiments, and this pop-up empathy museum would make clear the best way monkeys—who dream simply as people do—should relive the horror of their scary and painful experiences each evening. And in the course of the day, they by no means know when new horrors can be inflicted on them. Our museum would additionally expose the merciless irony that a person supposedly learning neuropsychiatric problems engages in acts demonstrating a whole lack of empathy, very similar to Krueger.
Turning the Nightmare on Elm Avenue home into an empathy museum for these victims would assist folks keep in mind that, similar to people, all animals are manufactured from flesh and blood and are able to experiencing concern and struggling in addition to pleasure and love. Please tell us if this home might function a neighborhood pop-up museum to encourage guests to oppose horrific, pointless exams on animals, at the very least till you promote it. Thanks on your consideration.
Very really yours,
Ingrid Newkirk
President
