PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island. To encourage compassion for animals mutilated and killed in university labs, PETA will launch Abduction on Monday, a unique virtual reality experience at Brown University hitting college campuses across the country. In a spooky adventure, visitors get into a mysterious truck and put on a virtual reality headset. It looks like they will be trapped in the desert with a few of their fellow alien abductees aboard a spaceship and have horrific experiences similar to those experienced by animals in a lab. They will watch other people run experiments inspired by real animal testing, knowing that they will be next.
Watch the trailer here. Video footage of virtual reality abductions is available upon request. Images from the first day of operation of the Brown kidnapping site will be available on Monday.
Experimenters at Brown University surgically implanted pumps into the backs of two-month-old mice and pumped chemicals into them for nearly two weeks. Then they tied up the mice, exposed some to X-rays, cut off their testicles and killed them. Brown continues to use live pigs in its emergency hospitalization program, although almost every other medical center in the country has switched to breathing, bleeding, human simulators. In addition to being more user-friendly, these systems are more portable, cheaper and reusable.
Last year, federal documents released by PETA showed that Brown committed 23 violations of animal welfare standards between March 2019 and April 2021 — nearly one per month. Among other incidents, records show that 8 mice starved to death, 12 died of dehydration, one mouse survived exposure to carbon dioxide and woke up in a dead animal freezer, and one mouse was found to have a tumor that exceeded size limits set by the university. and the experimenters’ failure to euthanize the animals in a timely manner—one mouse was found to be in a “dying state”, possibly having breathing problems, sunken eyes, and no access to food or water.
“Many students are unaware that on their own college campuses, frightened and bewildered animals are being tortured, maimed and killed in cold, barren labs with no way to escape or even understand what is happening to them,” said the senior director of PETA. student Rachel Owen against racism. “PETA’s mission is to show young people this cruelty, help them understand how they feel about animals, and inspire them to join our call for a transition to better non-animal research.”
Studies show that 90 percent of basic research, most of which involves animals, does not lead to a cure in humans, which is why PETA is pushing universities to move towards complex, human-centered research methods.
Filmed in a VR180 and assisted by virtual reality production studio Prosper XR, Abduction was stopped at several other US campuses coast to coast, including Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut and Yale.
PETA, whose slogan is partly “Animals are not something we can experiment with,” opposes speciesism, the human supremacist worldview. For more information about gathering and reporting on PETA investigations, visit PETA.org or follow the Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram group.
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Post time: Nov-07-2022