BABY RHESUS MONKEYS MAY SOON LEARN THE HORRORS OF TWO YEARS OF CRUEL EMOTIONAL TORTURE AND FEAR FOLLOWED BY BEING KILLED TO EXAMINE THE IMPACTS OF THEIR TWO YEARS OF TORTURE ON THEIR BRAINS
AND IT IS ALL SO UNNECESSARY..........
PLEASE READ AND THEN SIGN DR. RUTH DECKER’S CHANGE.ORG PETITION BELOW:
https://www.change.org/...
AND THEN PLEASE READ MY LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITY BELOW THE PETITION:
University of Wisconsin: Cancel The Unethical Torture and Killing of Baby Monkeys!
Dr. Ruth Decker, M.D., J.D., M.B.A.
Petition by
Dr. Ruth Decker, M.D., J.D., M.B.A.
St Louis, MO
As an alumna of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine, I am horrified to learn that my alma mater plans to conduct highly controversial and cruel experiments that will torture and kill baby monkeys.
The experiments, led by Dr. Ned Kalin, will take newborn rhesus macaque monkeys away from their mothers (who have been restrained or drugged against their will while their baby is removed). The defenseless baby monkeys are then sent to solitary confinement—where they are terrorized and exposed to anxiety-inducing stressors including live snakes, painful skin-punch biopsies, and stressful brain scans. After this relentless torture, they are killed before the age of two.
The university gained notoriety in the 1960s when Harry Harlow first isolated infant primates from their mothers in the now infamous maternal deprivation studies. The effects were devastating. The babies went into shock, huddling in the corners of their cages, clutching themselves, rocking, and self-mutilating. Today, such methods are considered extreme and unethical yet are being revived in Kalin’s proposed research.I am shocked that this great university, which holds itself as a premier institution, is regressing to engage in these barbaric studies.
Painless methods of research that do not involve animal suffering and that better assess the cognitive aspects of anxiety disorders are already available. The maternal deprivation method, which one researcher calls "hopelessly crude and antiquated," traumatizes baby monkeys in the worst ways imaginable.
There is some evidence that someone behind these proposed experiments intentionally left out several committee members opposed to these cruel tests -- which is illegal for these taxpayer funded tests! The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to investigate the approval for these tests due to this controversy.
As a former faculty member and investigator at the University of Michigan, I had NIH (public) funding to support my genetic research. I am familiar with the guidelines universities must follow.The university has failed to meet these objectives.
I ask you to join me and condemn the needless torture and killing of baby monkeys.
Please sign the petition below and demand the University of Wisconsin cancel these horrific experiments!
My letter to University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine,
I was absolutely horrified to learn of your intent to perform cruel and unnecessary experiments on baby primates
What exactly do you intend to learn that you already don’t know - or should know about the physiological impact of torturing baby primates by terrifying them for 2 years?
If you wish to learn what you don’t know about how such horrific treatment damages the brain and affects an individual’s physiological/mental - as though (there) is a difference - well being .
simply scan the brains of patients who have experienced this type of trauma and are willing to have a brain scan.
My god! You are ignorant and stupid.
Have you ever heard of Dr. Mengele? In truth, as i see it you are indeed no different.
Sent to University of Wisconsin
news@uwhealth.org
Attn: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine