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February 14, 2024
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Tasgola Bruner
Nashville – Beginning subsequent Wednesday, PETA will present its eye-opening exhibit “With out Consent,” which explores the troubled historical past of experiments on animals and challenges establishments to rethink this merciless and archaic idea of science, at Centennial Park—a stone’s throw from Vanderbilt College, an establishment with a troubled historical past of animal experimentation.
When: Wednesday, February 21, to Sunday, February 25, 12 midday–4 p.m.
The place: Centennial Park, 2500 West Finish Ave. (close to Athena at The Parthenon and Lake Watauga), Nashville
Guests view PETA’s “With out Consent” exhibit. Credit score: PETA
Modeled after the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, “With out Consent” might be on show regionally for 5 days. It options 28 panels with descriptions and images of almost 200 animal experiments carried out at U.S. establishments from the Twenties to the current. Watch the trailer right here. An interactive digital exhibit is accessible right here.
“‘With out Consent’ tells the true tales of animals harmed and killed in experiments that they didn’t and couldn’t consent to,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA is asking on Vanderbilt and all different establishments to embrace fashionable, animal-free analysis, as a result of having the facility to use different species doesn’t give us the precise to take action.”
Vanderbilt was fined greater than $15,000 by the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) for animal welfare violations, together with an incident wherein a monkey was scalded to demise when her cage was run by a high-temperature cage washer whereas she was trapped inside.
“With out Consent” additionally factors out that weak people—together with orphans in tuberculosis and psychological experiments, immigrant girls in gynecological surgical procedures, troopers in LSD and poison fuel assessments, and impoverished Black males in syphilis experiments—have been exploited in experiments. Simply as society now understands that these experiments have been flawed, “With out Consent” exhibits that we have to let an analogous ethical awakening information our conduct as we speak by extending consideration to the 110 million animals killed yearly in U.S. laboratories. These animals are people who really feel ache and worry, but they’re robbed of their infants, force-fed chemical substances, and sickened with illnesses, amongst different atrocities.
Since its debut in 2021, “With out Consent” has traveled to 29 cities and has shared details about the horrors of experimentation with almost 15,000 guests. As neuroscientist and Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik describes it, “‘With out Consent,’ PETA’s new touring exhibit, is a must-see. … Test it out in a metropolis close to you and do your half to assist create a greater future for all!”
After viewing “With out Consent,” greater than 2,500 guests have been moved to contact their legislators, urging them to oppose animal testing and endorse the Analysis Modernization Deal, which gives a method for changing scientifically ineffective assessments on animals with efficient human-relevant analysis strategies.
“With out Consent” might be open to the general public at Centennial Park from 12 midday to 4 p.m., February 21 to 25.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals usually are not ours to experiment on”—factors out that Each Animal Is Somebody and gives free Empathy Kits for individuals who want a lesson in kindness. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or comply with the group on X (previously Twitter), Fb, or Instagram.
