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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 07:17 PM Mar 2019

PETA Sues Oregon Health and Science Univ. For Not Releasing Video Recordings of Monkey Experiments

The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals today filed a lawsuit against Oregon Health and Science University over the release of video recordings of monkey experiments.

PETA argues that because the experiments are taxpayer-funded—made possible by publicly-funded National Institutes of Health grants—the tapes should be made available via Oregon's open-records law.

The lawsuit, filed today in Multnomah County Circuit Court, specifically seeks "the production of public records relating to maternal nutrition experiments conducted on mother-infant or mother-juvenile pairs of monkeys, and experiments relating to self-injurious behavior."

More specifically: experiments where researchers allegedly fed mother monkeys experimental diets, separated them from offspring and "deliberately frightening the young monkeys."

Read more: https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/03/27/peta-sues-oregon-health-and-science-university-for-not-releasing-video-recordings-of-monkey-experiments/

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PETA Sues Oregon Health and Science Univ. For Not Releasing Video Recordings of Monkey Experiments (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2019 OP
Good. I hope they prevail. femmedem Mar 2019 #1

femmedem

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1. Good. I hope they prevail.
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 07:44 PM
Mar 2019

If these experiments would be unethical to perform on human mothers and infants, then they are unethical to perform on monkey mothers and infants.

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