For Quick Launch:
January 30, 2023
Contact:
Amanda Hays 202-483-7382
San Diego – PETA is about to unveil its eye-opening exhibit “With out Consent,” which explores the troubled historical past of experiments on nonconsenting animals. The set up challenges establishments, together with the College of California–San Diego, to rethink this exploitative, costly, merciless, and archaic idea of science.
Modeled after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, “With out Consent” will likely be on show domestically for 5 days as a part of a nationwide tour. It options 24 panels with descriptions and pictures of almost 200 animal experiments carried out at U.S. establishments from the Nineteen Twenties by means of at present. An interactive digital exhibit can be accessible right here.
When: February 6–10
The place: Balboa Park, at El Prado and Village Place, San Diego
“With out Consent” tells the true tales of animals harmed and killed in experiments that they didn’t and couldn’t consent to,” says PETA neuroscientist and UC–San Diego graduate Dr. Katherine Roe. “People are just one animal species amongst many. Having the facility to take advantage of the others doesn’t give us the proper to take action.”
The 110 million animals killed yearly in U.S. laboratories are people who expertise ache and worry, but they’re burned, force-fed chemical substances, sickened with illness, and robbed of their infants. At UC–San Diego, experimenters subjected rabbits to electrical shocks of their anal canals and punctured the intestines of mice—releasing feces into their our bodies, inflicting sepsis and loss of life—amongst different merciless procedures.
“With out Consent” additionally makes the purpose that susceptible people—together with orphans in tuberculosis and psychological experiments, immigrant girls in gynecological surgical procedures, troopers in LSD and poison gasoline exams, and impoverished Black males in syphilis experiments—had been exploited in experiments. Simply as society now understands that these experiments had been improper, “With out Consent” reveals we have to let an identical ethical awakening information our conduct at present by extending consideration to different nonconsenting sentient beings who are suffering and die in experiments from floor-cleaner product exams to mother-infant separation research.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals will not be ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra info on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please go to PETA.org; comply with the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram; or hearken to The PETA Podcast.
