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For immediate release:
May 26, 2021
Contact:
Amanda Hayes 202-483-7382
Baltimore – Since Johns Hopkins University (JHU) still approves of the horrific cruel, useless and clearly illegal experiments of experimenter Shrish Mysore on barn owls, a PETA protester dressed as an owl will stage a stage at the university’s graduation ceremony tomorrow. Other protesters will hold up posters that read: “Owls in a cage as the Grads cross the stage.”
When: Thursday, May 27, 6:30 pm
Where: Homewood Field, 111 W. University Pkwy. (junction with Canterbury Road), Baltimore
Mysore cuts through owl skulls, inserts electrodes into their brains, and bombards them with light and noise under the pretext of studying attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder in humans. Owls are kept for up to 12 hours at a time, and they are all euthanized after experimentation. Mysore acknowledged that attaching bolts to the skulls of birds to keep their heads in an unnaturally fixed position could cause him to “misinterpret what is happening or misunderstand” the results.
“When JHU graduates are born, owls remain in cages in the Mysore lab, where they suffer painful brain damage and death,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA calls on the university to immediately end this despicable treatment of beautiful and intelligent owls.”
In response to a formal complaint filed by PETA, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources warned Mysore that it violated state law by keeping owls and experimenting on them without an established permit from 2015 to 2018. PETA is now urging the agency to revoke its approval and to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to refund its grant money and deny future requests because NIH grant recipients are required to comply with state laws. PETA also recently filed a groundbreaking lawsuit on behalf of the owls, and it is still pending.
PETA, whose motto is in part that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes specisism, which is a worldview focused on human excellence. For more information please visit PETA.org or subscribe to the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram…
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