From brain-cutting experiments on owls to testing for muscular dystrophy on dogs, the team reveals how much tax must be paid to the suffering lab
For immediate release:
February 15, 2022
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Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
Baltimore – “The bus stops here.” PETA just released a free augmented reality (AR) tool pull the curtain back cold, hard taxpayers Cash funds the government’s cruel and wasteful animal experiments. Users can scan real dollar bills with their phones, causing an AR version of the greenback to appear on their screen alongside an animated animal and incredible information about the experiments.
PETA’s “owl” mascot is launching a project on the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) campus this week, providing passers-by with a $1 bill to try out the AR tool on it electrically. their phone.
When: Thursday, February 17, 12 noon
Where: Keyser Quad, JHU, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore
Experiments that are exposed include the following.
- For a $1 bill: At Johns Hopkins University, Shreesh Mysore’s . JHU experimenter brain research on barn owlshe cut into the skulls of birds, inserted electrodes into their brains, forced them to look at screens for hours a day, and bombarded them with noise and light – to the tune of over 1.9 million dollars from taxpayers.
- For the $5 bill: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Texas A&M University $5 million for breeding golden retriever with canine muscular dystrophycauses the dogs’ muscles to degrade as they languish in barren cages.
- For a $10 bill: Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are used to support 7 countries National Primate Research Centerwhere Monkeys inside cages are only bigger than their bodies spinning, plucking his own feathers, and biting himself in frustration.
- For a $20 bill: The NIH spends nearly $20 billion on animal experiments each year, though 95% of new drugs found to be effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.
- For a $50 bill: Nearly $50 million has gone into NIH experimenter Elisabeth Murray’s Check out “Fear of the Monkey”in which parts of a monkey’s brain are destroyed before they are left alone in a small metal cage and deliberately spooked by fake snakes and spiders.
PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo said: “Many people don’t know that their hard-earned tax dollars are enabling twisted animal experimenters who have a pseudo-scientific agenda and contrary heart of coal”. “As US global dominance in science wanes, PETA is pressing for adoption Modernization Agreement Studywhich outlines a plan to stop tax dollars being wasted on cruel animal experiments and instead, pour money into superior, human-fit research methods. ”
PETA’s free augmented reality tool is available at PETA.org/AR.
PETA — in part, their motto that “animals are not our thing to experiment with” — advocates speciesism, a human worldview – supremacy. For more information on group news gathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebookor Instagram.
