PETA wants chimp ‘empathy’ museum at KSC

Posted by brandoniswrite on March 4, 2012

WASHINGTON — Animal rights activists with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals today requested permission to use unused buildings at the Kennedy Space Center for a “Chimpanzee Empathy Museum” that would honor some of NASA’s earliest test pilots — and put a spotlight on modern-day experimentation.

“PETA’s exhibit will show that while NASA has stopped blasting terrified chimpanzees into space and crippling them in crash tests, chimpanzees are still tormented in laboratories — and that cannot go on,” says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo, in a statement. “With Congress considering a bill to ban experiments on these intelligent and social animals, it’s the perfect time for an exhibit about what we have done to our closest primate relatives.”

To see the full letter, click here.

The Write Stuff – Orlando Sentinel

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