PETA renews campaign against monkey research at UMass
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Published: 4/29/2021 5:37:07 PM
AMHERST — An animal rights organization is continuing its campaign to end research on marmoset monkeys at the University of Massachusetts.
This week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it would be taking a series of steps, including running print advertisements that depict the laboratory animals at UMass and use phrases such as “U Mass Murderers” and “UMass: Ignorance isn’t bliss.” PETA also plans to file federal complaints and engage in protests, according to media manager Tasgola Bruner.
The campaign follows a letter that Katherine V. Roe, a senior research associate for PETA in Norfolk, Va., sent Feb. 1 to Robert Manning, chairman of the UMass board of trustees. Roe wrote that three of PETA’s staff scientists had met in July with Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement Dr. Mike Malone, and a UMass patron, to discuss ways in which the university could modernize its biomedical research program, reduce its use of animals in experimentation, and improve overall animal welfare at the university.