Letter to the Editor: Princeton's disproportionate response to PETA's exhibit shows their culpability - The Daily Princetonian

To the Editor:

Recently, Princeton University’s carnal experimentation laboratories went into a full-blown panic — vigilance was urged, exigency measures were taken, and a lockdown was initiated. Even the school’s spokesperson was paraded out, spouting platitudes astir however the animals Princeton experimenters routinely maim and termination successful pointless experiments are treated successful a “humane and responsible” mode and however these experiments acquisition “rigorous scientific, ethical and regulatory oversight.”

Princeton’s panic was not due to the fact that of immoderate existent emergency, but due to the fact that PETA simply staged an grounds connected campus. The outsized absorption would beryllium comical if it did not betray a grim and inconvenient information hiding successful plain show connected the school’s campus.

Never caput the national reports documenting violations of these precise standards successful the school’s laboratories: animals near without nutrient oregon veterinary care, subjected to procedures unapproved by the University’s carnal experimentation oversight body; mice subjected to a process causing limb paralysis, and a monkey subjected to monthly MRIs, but near unmonitored afterward.

Princeton labs termination animals successful experiments that bash thing to guardant science. In fact, 95 percent of drugs that trial harmless successful animals neglect successful quality trials. Further, a staggering 90 percent of basal research, astir of which involves animals, fails to pb to treatments for humans.

If an grounds designed to summation empathy with different living, sentient beings is someway threatening to Princeton’s labs, that should archer everyone who is connected the close broadside of past and who is propping up a convulsive and useless location of cards.

Keith Brown is simply a subject writer successful the Laboratory Investigations Department of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).