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Victory Update: Following a year of vigorous campaigning, PETA has learned that government officials have grounded plans for a cruel and ineffective radiation experiment on monkeys. Learn more about this victory for monkeys.
PETA has obtained government documents showing that in August 2010, the Brookhaven National Laboratory—where NASA has been planning to fund a study to blast monkeys with radiation—made a decision about whether or not to move forward with the cruel project.
Unfortunately, before the government sent us these documents, it blacked out Brookhaven's decision, so we don't know if plans to hurt these animals are moving forward or not. However, a NASA representative recently told a reporter that this misguided project might not happen, so underneath all that black might be an announcement that the monkeys will be spared.
In an additional boost to the campaign this week, former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao spoke out against the monkey radiation experiments in a column for Discovery News.
You can help us find out the status of these cruel experiments by taking a moment to call the Department of Energy (DOE) at 202-586-5000 and politely asking if plans are still in place to bombard squirrel monkeys with radiation at Brookhaven.
To those whom it may conern, PLEASE DO SOMETHING! THIS IS NOT HUMAN!
What on earth for? Dont they already know that this will give them cancer and kill them. Like kids pulling legs of a spider about time they grew up. We dont need experiments like this. Just know you are not doing this for me and when you die I feel sorry for you cos you will have to feel every bit of pain that these animals will if this goes ahead.
IF WE ALLOWED SUCH A HORRIBLE THINGS _ SHAME ON US HUMANS
STOP THIS CRUELTY NOW!
This is barbaric. It must stop.
Stop test!
Italia
hope that these unnecessary and cruel experiments have an end
But how can these gentlemen that work to NASA do such cruelty?
Tiziana
This is horrible and must be stoppped.
Save the monkeys!!!!
They don't deserve this!
Stop these cruel actions against these inocent monkeys
please
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