To: Stuart Leland, Dir., Office of Research Integrity & Assurance and Pamela Straeter, Assistant Director
Primate Torture at Princeton University Won't Cure Human Diseases
Primate won’t cure any human disease. Instead, it teaches students, who will become our surgeons, not to feel compassion, but instead a cynical indifference to suffering. Using computers makes more sense and is more reliable.
Why is this important?
We strongly urge Princeton University to stop torturing primates and small animals in Princeton’s Green Hall. The tri-state area Anti-Vivisection Alliance says that Princeton University is one of the Garden State's most heinous sites of wanton animal torture for a multi-million dollar grant.
Emily Aronson, the university’s spokesperson in 2010, presented the research as "significant discoveries that benefit humankind." Matt Fair discovered this study two years ago via the NIH and wrote an article, stating "Princeton University filed projects to study multi-sensory integration of faces and voices in primate-temporal lobes."
Primates' throats, hands, and feet are permanently clamped to chairs, their heads scalped so their brains show, metal sensors are thrust into their eyes and ears. Some wake during the operations due to insufficient anesthesia. They're often denied water for 1 - 3 days, causing dehydration, burning throat, muscle cramps.
This research won’t cure human disease. Instead, it teaches students not to feel compassion, to feel instead a cynical indifference to suffering. And these students will become our surgeons! Using computers makes more sense and is more reliable.
Consider whether a three- or five-year-old human child might think, "Why are you doing this to me?" So does a primate!
Tell Princeton to shut down this outdated, horrendous, unwarranted animal testing program, “… a profit-driven parody of empirical science, resulting in horrible suffering and death for the primates, rabbits, cats, guinea pigs and other sentient animals trapped in Princeton's laboratories of vivisection torture,” atrocities routinely occurring due to Princeton "researchers" carelessness and cynical indifference to the precious living beings at their mercy.”
Emily Aronson, the university’s spokesperson in 2010, presented the research as "significant discoveries that benefit humankind." Matt Fair discovered this study two years ago via the NIH and wrote an article, stating "Princeton University filed projects to study multi-sensory integration of faces and voices in primate-temporal lobes."
Primates' throats, hands, and feet are permanently clamped to chairs, their heads scalped so their brains show, metal sensors are thrust into their eyes and ears. Some wake during the operations due to insufficient anesthesia. They're often denied water for 1 - 3 days, causing dehydration, burning throat, muscle cramps.
This research won’t cure human disease. Instead, it teaches students not to feel compassion, to feel instead a cynical indifference to suffering. And these students will become our surgeons! Using computers makes more sense and is more reliable.
Consider whether a three- or five-year-old human child might think, "Why are you doing this to me?" So does a primate!
Tell Princeton to shut down this outdated, horrendous, unwarranted animal testing program, “… a profit-driven parody of empirical science, resulting in horrible suffering and death for the primates, rabbits, cats, guinea pigs and other sentient animals trapped in Princeton's laboratories of vivisection torture,” atrocities routinely occurring due to Princeton "researchers" carelessness and cynical indifference to the precious living beings at their mercy.”