Call NASA, Save Monkeys! March 11, 2010

Posted by Rachel-O at March 11, 2010 10:56 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack

Monkeys need your help! Check out Logan's blog on how you can help monkeys by calling NASA and urging it to drop their upcoming experiments on monkeys. E-mail us at StreetTeam@peta2.com to tell us about your experience phoning NASA, and we'll give you 1,000 Street Team points for calling!

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Despite our petitions, e-mails, protests, tweets to astronauts in space, a letter from the U.S. Congress, and even compelling evidence that the project may have violated federal regulations, NASA has not halted its misguided plan to waste $1.75 million to torment monkeys in cruel and ineffective radiation experiments. With time to save the monkeys running out, we're calling on you to take a few minutes of your time to call NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver. at 202-358-1020 and politely ask her to scrap the proposal to fund radiation experiments on monkeys and to direct these resources toward modern and humane methods instead.

I just got off the phone with a secretary at NASA, who, while polite, seemed a little taken aback as she took down my message. Clearly, she hadn't planned on starting her day by taking notes about how NASA needs to stop its plans to zap monkeys with a massive dose of radiation and then condemn them to years of experiments in order to assess how the radiation devastates their brains and bodies.

After you call, send a quick follow-up message to NASA officials, and urge everyone you know to do the same.

NASA: Stop the Monkey Business! November 9, 2009

Posted by Rachel-O at November 9, 2009 9:33 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 5 ) | TrackBack

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When you think of NASA, you probably think of rockets, science, innovation and most of all, the most high tech, up to date technology that we can't even imagine yet, right? NASA doesn't possibly think that torturing animals in the name of science is somehow useful ... or do they?

NASA is planning to expose up to 28 squirrel monkeys to radiation in order to simulate the effects of radiation exposure to humans in space. The monkeys will then spend the rest of their lives being forced to perform a host of "behavioral tasks" to assess how the radiation affected their brains. Although NASA has repeatedly told the media that these monkeys won't be killed, they left out the teensy detail that earlier radiation experiments NASA has conducted on monkeys have caused the animals to suffer from fatal cancers, including brain tumors.

Years ago, PETA was instrumental in getting NASA out of the monkey business when we successfully pushed the agency to cancel plans to launch straightjacketed, electrode-implanted monkeys into space. Monkeys need your help to tell NASA to cancel these experiments now.

Please click here and use our form to send an automated letter to NASA asking them to use humane methods of research instead of torturing animals.