Unfortunately, once again, we are forced to talk about animal experimentationa term that we would like to erase our vocabulary forever. Peta received a Unpublished video, shot inside the animal workshops of Massachusetts General Hospitaluniversity structure of Harvard Medical School, which shows without filters what really happens behind the closed doors of one of the most prestigious hospitals in the world.
These are not images shot by activists or volunteers, but of material coming from the inside, a rare opportunity to shed light on a suffering that too often remains hidden and unknown, until someone bangs it in the face in a hard and raw way, as happens in this case.
In the workshops, hundreds of monkeys, pigs, rabbits, mice and rats are subjected to painful and cruel experiments, confined in narrow spaces and without stimuli, deprived of light and natural air, tormented by incessant and frightening noises. The video shows animals with surgically implanted devices, which show the obvious signs of an existence marked by fear, confusion and psychological suffering.
These living beings that for their nature should be able to move, explore and socialize, are instead condemned to an existence light years away from any condition of well -being. And unfortunately, the reality that emerges in the video is not new or unique, but represents The horrible everyday life of many animal experimentation workshops in the world.
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Senseless and cruel experiments without any real benefit
The Mass General Hospital takes place chilling practices: baboons subjected to transplants of organs from genetically modified pigs, often with fatal outcomes; monkeys to which the skulls are perforated to implant electrodes; Invasive interventions on bone marrow and stem cells. Experiments that, in addition to causing extreme suffering, have so far not produced any concrete benefit for human medicine, leaving behind only a trail of pain and death.
All this comes financed by hundreds of millions of public dollars, Like the approximately 327 million paid in 2024 by the National Institutes of Health, money wasted in useless suffering instead of invested in ethical and innovative scientific methods.
This is therefore no longer just an ethical question, but it is also a scientific and economic failure. Animal workshops in the United States, including the seven National Primate Research Center, continue to waste enormous funds for experiments that inflict only suffering, without any concrete result in terms of care or useful treatments.
What can we do
Those who are in the United States can join the Peta petition which strongly ask for the end of these funding and the transition to more modern, ethical and valid research methods for human medicine.
All the others can contribute by pressing the institutions to stop cruel experiments such as those conducted on the University of Massachusetts-amherst on the Marmoset monkeys. We need everyone’s commitment to end this madness.
