Action Alert:
Stop torturous monkey experiments before they start!
Please see addresses to write to object at the end of the message.
University of Arizona
Frazier Wilson, Peter De Weerts, and Lynn Nadel will soon be cutting into the brains of living monkeys and they hope you don't find out.
Inside sources at the University of Arizona have alerted animal
advocates that a new series of experiments are being planned on the
university campus. According to university sources, one of the
researchers has been openly derisive of animal welfare laws and
complained about not being allowed to perform repeated survival
surgeries on single animals.
The planned research on vision and learning will use rhesus monkeys and
involve significant stereotaxic procedures, brain lesions and placement of
electrodes into the monkey's brains, according to sources.
Students have been ordered not to discuss the lab or the experiments
publicly or to even admit to the lab's existence.
What you can do:
Contact the researchers and let them know that you are bothered by
their plans
Peter De Weerds
E-Mail: pdeweerd@u.arizona.edu
Phone: (520) 626 2609
De Weerds is a recent addition to the university staff. He has been
associated with the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National
Institutes of Mental Health during which he wrote, "To identify the
neural mechanisms necessary for visual attention, we made restricted
lesions, affecting different quadrants of the visual field but leaving
one quadrant intact, in extrastriate cortical areas V4 and TEO of two
monkeys. Monkeys were trained to discriminate the orientation of a
target grating surrounded by distracters."
Frazier Wilson
E-Mail: fraser@nsma.arizona.edu
Phone: (520) 626-2374/626-2380
Check out Wilson's work: http://w3.arizona.edu/~primate/FraserW1.htm
"My research involves neurophysiological recordings in animals
performing cognitive tasks, and the effect of brain damage in people.
The objective is to define how sets of neurons accomplish what we
experience as the perception and knowledge of the visual world, and our
memories of it."
Lynn Nadel
E-Mail: nadel@u.arizona.edu
Phone: (520) 621-7449
"[My] work employs standard behavioral techniques in combination with
either experimentally induced brain damage."
2. Contact the university and request that the research be cancelled.
Holly Smith, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences
email: holly-smith@ns.arizona.edu (hsmith@u.arizona.edu)
office_phone: (520) 621-1112
office_address: Douglass Building: room 200w
Richard Powell, Vice President of Research
email: richard-powell@ns.arizona.edu (rcpowell@Arizona.EDU)
office_phone: (520) 621-3513
office_address: Administration: room 601
Peter Litkins, University of Arizona President
email: peter-likins@ns.arizona.edu (plikins@arizona.edu)
office_phone: (520) 621-5511
office_address: Administration: room 712
3. Write a letter to the editor of the Tucson Citizen newspaper at:
mail to: online@tucsoncitizen.com
4. Write a letter to the editor of the Tucson Weekly:
5. Write a letter to the editor of the school newspaper, the Wildcat:
6. Pass this alert onto anyone you know in Arizona, UA alumni, and to
anyone who might be motivated to take action.
For additional information:
Rick Bogle
In Defense of Animals
(415) 388 9641 x19