{"id":2186154,"date":"2025-03-19T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2186154"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:35:30","slug":"petition-stop-harvards-cruel-monkey-experiments-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/petition-stop-harvards-cruel-monkey-experiments-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition: Stop Harvard\u2019s Cruel Monkey Experiments Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margaret Livingstone, a Harvard University experimenter, has spent her entire 40-year career tormenting animals, including by tearing baby monkeys away from their mothers and sewing their eyes shut\u2014or making sure they never see a human or monkey face in other ways\u2014just to see how badly it damages their brain and visual development.<\/p>\n

Livingstone calls it science. We call it torture. Harvard must shut down her lab permanently and have her head examined.<\/p>\n

Livingstone has stolen perfectly healthy babies from their loving mothers at birth and deprived them of normal visual input by stitching their eyes closed, condemning them to a world of complete darkness.<\/p>\n

In some of Livingstone’s experiments, she sewed the baby monkeys’ eyes shut and left them that way for up to a year. In others, the motherless monkeys are reared by laboratory staff who wear welding masks.<\/p>\n

These fragile and terrified infants don’t see any face, monkey or human, for a year. Livingston then tests their face-processing abilities to see how badly they’ve been damaged.<\/p>\n

To do this, Livingstone immobilizes her helpless victims by surgically implanting a steel post in their head, strapping their chin tightly, or forcing them to bite down on a bar. Sometimes, she surgically implants electrodes into their brain in order to record how their deprived brain cells respond to visual cues.<\/p>\n

After years of this torment, she kills many of the monkeys and dissects their brains.<\/p>\n

Take a minute to urge Harvard’s administration to close Livingstone’s laboratory, get her a psych evaluation, and release the remaining monkeys to a sanctuary immediately.<\/p>\n

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This article<\/a> by Nicholas Vincent was first published by One Green Planet on 13 March 2025. Lead Image: Image Credit :tlorna\/Shutterstock.
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