NASA Monkey Experiments Appear to Violate Federal Regulations

Published by PETA.

 

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Blasting as many as 30 monkeys with radiation and then imprisoning them for the rest of their lives in tiny steel cages in order to assess how the radiation damages their bodies is wrong on too many levels to count. And it also appears to violate NASA’s own guidelines—and federal regulations too.

According to new information obtained by PETA through the Freedom of Information Act, NASA appears to have violated its own grant guidelines and the Code of Federal Regulations by approving the outlay of nearly $2 million in taxpayer money on this cruel and wasteful experiment before they had even been evaluated for scientific validity by one of the facilities where they would be taking place and even though the lead experimenter had missed crucial deadlines for receiving approval for the project.

NASA’s guidelines state that grant applications that don’t meet the relevant requirements will be “declared noncompliant and declined without review,” so PETA has filed a complaint with NASA calling for an immediate investigation and asking for the misguided project to be disqualified from receiving even one penny of our tax dollars.

Join us in stopping this abuse of monkeys before it happens by urging Congress to end the barbaric plan.

Written by Logan Scherer

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