Flock of PETA India ‘Sparrows’ to Protest Lecture by LSU Experimenter Who Torments and Kills Birds
For Immediate Release:
18 March 2024
Contact:
Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]
Atharva Deshmukh; [email protected]
Meerut – Wearing huge sparrow masks and brandishing with signs reading, “Experimenter Christine Lattin Kills Sparrows in Cruel Tests” and “Brain-Damaging and Scaring Sparrows Isn’t Science,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India supporters will gather outside Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, on Tuesday during the guest lecture of Louisiana State University (LSU) experimenter Christine Lattin to call attention to her cruel and pointless tests on songbirds – the most recent of which included injecting them with chemicals that temporarily inactivate a portion of the brain, exposing them to unfamiliar objects likely to scare them so she can watch their reactions, killing them all, and chopping up their brains.
Where: Opposite the entry gate to Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Ramgarhi, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh 250001.
When: Tuesday, 19 March, 11 am to 12 noon
“The only thing Christine Lattin’s long history of worthless experiments has made her an expert in is capturing, terrorising, and killing songbirds,” said PETA India Science Policy Advisor Anjana Aggarwal. “PETA India is shining a light on Lattin’s atrocities and expects that passers-by will be shocked to discover what passes for science in her laboratory.”
In other experiments carried out at various universities over the last 15 years, Lattin has caught sparrows and other wild birds and deliberately inflicted psychological suffering and pain on them by exposing them to the recorded sounds of their predators, rattling their cages, wounding their legs without pain medication, and forcing them to eat crude oil–laced food. After enduring these experiments, the birds were killed. PETA US has been joined by over 1,34,000 supporters in calling on LSU to shut down Lattin’s grisly, taxpayer-funded experiments.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information about PETA India’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.
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