Woman to Be Caged, Shackled, and ‘Experimented On’ During ‘World Week for Animals in Laboratories’

For Immediate Release:

21 April 2022

Contact:

Hiraj Laljani; [email protected]

Radhika Suryavanshi; [email protected]

Pune – Just in time for World Day for Animals in Laboratories (24 April) and World Week for Animals in Laboratories, a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India member will take part in a street theatre–style graphic demonstration to show how animals are abused and killed in laboratories in India and around the world. She will be caged, shackled to a table, “force-fed chemicals”, and “electrocuted” before she is “killed”. Other PETA India members will display posters emblazoned with photographs of real animals suffering the same types of abuse in laboratories:

When:               Friday, 22 April, 12 noon

Where:             Outside Westside Store, Fergusson College Road, Pune, Maharashtra

“Most people have no idea how sensitive animals are still tortured and killed in laboratories in India and around the world,” says PETA India Science Policy Advisor Dr Ankita Pandey. “Moving away from unreliable and unethical tests on animals and instead investing in superior, non-animal methods will be better for humans, other animals, and the future of science.”

PETA India notes that many monkeys, dogs, rats, and other animals are burned, blinded, drugged, cut open, mutilated, and poisoned in laboratories every year. Not only are these tests cruel, their results are also inapplicable to humans because of the vast physiological and anatomical differences among species. Modern methods such as in vitro and in silico tests are reliable, human-relevant, and more cost-efficient than those involving animals.

PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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