Last Chance To Save These Chimpanzees

On the morning of July 9th I learned from The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) that NASA planned on using chimpanzees in a cruel radiation experiment. I wrote about it here on that same day.

On August 10th I was delighted to hear of NASA astronaut April Evans leaving her position in protest of NASA harming the monkeys in this horrible and unnecessary torture. I also wrote about it here.

Now I am writing about it again. Why? Because NASA is about to make the decision and we enough attention has been shed on the situation that it could possibly be stopped. The chimpanzees need your help. They cannot speak for themselves.

Click on this link and ask DOE Secretary Steven Chu to halt DOE’s involvement. His facility is set to be used in the radiation experiments.

https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=367&autologin=true&AddInterest=1781&JServSessionIdr004=5mo6pgtvb2.app214a

Props to April Evans

Being an astronaut is a childhood dream for a lot of people. Let’s be honest, to be able to say “I’m an astronaut” would be pretty cool. This was all true for April Evans, and she just quit. Why? because NASA refused to stop their very cruel experiments on monkeys. This was a very unselfish, courageous, and commendable act by April Evans. Please support April and send this letter to NASA and ask them to stop radiating monkeys.

https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=291&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=g0pwf75zw2.app209b

Some things are just common sense to me. I don’t know why anybody would want to NUKE a monkey. I can’t imagine that only animal rights activists care to do anything about things like this. Nobody should ever have to get hurt or killed for someone else’s advancement. NASA is about to fund (with tax money of course-$1.75 million!!!) space radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is doing something about it and you can too. They have put up billboards protesting the action all around McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts (where it will take place), they have started a petition, they have peacefully protested the site, and they have found several primate sanctuaries willing to take in the monkeys if they are released.
The monkeys will be exposed to harmful radiation at a lab, shipped to the hospital, housed alone in steel cages for at least four years, compelled to perform tasks to test for impairment, and subjected to daily restraints. What? Why would anyone do that to anything? Is Hitler behind this?

Please sign the petition by clicking on the link. It’s quick and easy. A few seconds of your time could spare these monkeys four or more years of torture.

https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=329&autologin=true