PETA visits Penn campus with virtual reality experience criticizing animal experiments - The Daily Pennsylvanian

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

The carnal rights enactment People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) targeted Penn students with a virtual world acquisition criticizing technological carnal experimentation past Thursday and Friday.

PETA ran the virtual world initiative, called “Abduction,” retired of a motortruck stationed connected Walnut Street betwixt 34th and 36th Streets from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m connected Nov. 10 and 11. Community members were invited by PETA organizers to measurement into the motortruck and enactment connected the virtual world headset that visually chronicled humans being abducted from a godforsaken and being tested connected by aliens successful an effort to gully the examination with carnal experimentation.

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PETA Lead Tour Administrator Marnie Chambless told The Daily Pennsylvanian that the extremity of the accumulation was to “put students into the spot of animals for a fewer minutes truthful they tin consciousness what it’s similar to beryllium subjected to experiments.”

Chambless said that 11 assemblage members participated successful the acquisition connected Nov. 10, portion connected Nov. 11, she estimated that determination were much than 15 participants.

“It’s a precise immersive, high-quality experience. People person been truly impressed by that, adjacent if they’re not connected committee with the full carnal rights message, but beauteous overmuch everyone that goes done the acquisition has said they wholly get the constituent of the analogy,” Chambless said.

Chambless said that PETA has been visiting assemblage campuses due to the fact that the institution wants to assistance forge connections among young radical with animals done empathy. The month-long traveling acquisition archetypal began astatine George Washington University connected Oct. 17, according to a news release. 

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“This isn’t thing radical truly deliberation astir mostly successful regular life. If we assistance assemblage students marque that transportation now, possibly going into their careers, they’ll beryllium capable to see it,” Chambless said.

The PETA grounds has besides visited immoderate of Penn’s adjacent institutions earlier arriving successful Philadelphia. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chambless said students were excited astir the virtual world facet due to the fact that of the subject absorption of the assemblage and added that students were investigating robots successful the aforesaid parking batch wherever PETA was stationed.

When asked astir what Penn is specifically doing successful their laboratories that violates PETA’s messaging, Chambless referred the DP to the institution press release connected the Penn visit.

The connection says that Penn has a agelong past of experimenting connected animals, and Chambless added that Penn experimenters person drilled holes and injected toxic proteins into babe monkeys and piglets. The claims successful PETA's property merchandise bash not mention circumstantial sources describing Penn's experimentation.

The property merchandise apt references experiments involving piglets conducted by retired Perelman School of Medicine pharmacology professor William Armstead which person since been retracted for falsified information. Armstead's probe progressive drilling into the piglets' skulls and past hammering into their exposed brains, according to PETA.