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NIH Pays These Institutions to Torment Animals—Stand Up to This!

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ICYDK, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently moved to focus on non-animal research methods—so WHY is it still handing out millions for experimenters to torment animals? 😡

PETA got this pic of a monkey at Wake Forest who was locked in a restraint chair that was too low for her to sit on, so experimenters left her dangling by her neck and underarms.

PETA found that the NIH gave over $5.5 million in grants to seven institutions this year to addict monkeys to cocaine, simulate menopause in macaques, inflict nerve damage in dogs, and do other gruesome experiments. 😨 Here are the details:

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Wake Forest University—$474,347

Experimenter Michael A. Nader got almost half a million dollars to addict monkeys to cocaine and nicotine, forcing them to choose between the drugs and food.

Michigan State University—$547,003

Asgerally T. Fazleabas has gotten more than $29 million total to carry out pointless experiments like forcing baboons to endure surgeries and cutting off part of a mouse’s uterus and sewing it to the inside of their abdomen.

University of Maryland, Baltimore—$548,544

This money backs a project that claims to study human menopause by ripping out the ovaries of rhesus macaques and then inducing simulated ‘hot flashes’.

University of Houston—$740,658

In this project, newborn monkeys are reared wearing helmets that distort and take away their vision. As they grow, the experimenters implant a post to their skulls, insert electrodes into their brains, and attach coils onto their eyes.

University of Georgia—$1,441,664

In this project, experimenters force a probiotic into rodents and dogs who are supposed to “model” Alzheimer's disease, which neither dogs nor rodents suffer from.

Washington University—$632,703

Experimenters used this money to cut into dogs’ necks, deliberately paralyze part of their voice boxes, put them through months of invasive tests, and then kill them to dissect their throat tissues.

Colorado Research Partners, LLC—$1,151,963

This money was used to force-feed dogs for weeks at a time with experimental drugs supposedly aimed at treating alcohol use disorder. Experimenters drew blood from the animals over and over, and then killed them to dissect their organs.

What You Can Do

Humans like you are the only thing standing between animals and miserable lives and deaths in a laboratory. Please urge NIH to stop funding these pointless experiments and share this with a friend to max out your impact! 💪

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Jon

Lorsch, PhD

Extramural Research NIH

Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

I’ve learned that the National Institutes of Health is still bankrolling grotesque and unscientific experiments on animals, including granting over $5.5 million to seven institutions for pointless projects. I strongly urge you to cancel this funding and redirect it to superior, non-animal research.

The money bankrolls experiments that addict monkeys to cocaine, simulate menopause in macaques, force vision-distorting helmets on newborn monkeys, inflict nerve damage in dogs, and other horrors, and are conducted at Wake Forest University, Michigan State University, University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Houston, University of Georgia, Washington University, and Colorado Research Partners, LLC.

Your leadership in prioritizing state-of-the-art, human-relevant, non-animal research methods is commendable. Please continue this by ensuring federal research funding advances the most ethical, efficient, and human-relevant science possible.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,

{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}
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