Israel: PETA Files Complaint With NIH Over Weizmann Institute's Abusive Brain Experiments

on Cats and Monkeys

Group Wants Funding Cut After Undercover Investigation Reveals That Animals Were Mutilated, Deprived of Water, Cruelly Restrained

For Immediate Release:
January 29, 2008

Contact:
Justin Goodman 757-622-7382

Norfolk, Va. - Today, PETA filed a complaint with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and asked the agency to investigate alleged abuse of cats and monkeys in brain experiments being conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS). Located in Rehovat, Israel, WIS receives American tax dollars through NIH grants. The complaint follows the release of video footage and other evidence of abuse obtained during a recent undercover investigation of WIS by the Israeli group Let the Animals Live. PETA's complaint is based on the investigator's affidavit and the expert testimony of Dr. Tamar Ron, a primate specialist who has served as a consultant to the Israeli government and the United Nations.....

Source: PETA Files Complaint With NIH Over Weizmann Institute's Abusive Brain Experiments on Cats and Monkeys
Author: PETA

Link: A new video clip as part of the campaign to release the monkeys from the Weitzman Institute
Link: Animal Rights Group Takes Aim at Weizmann Institute
Link: PETA: Tell the Weizmann Institute to Stop Torturing Monkeys and Cats


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