DID YOU KNOW folks that every year in the US, more than 100,000 monkeys are kept in laboratories where they are confined to small cages or crowded conditions. Sadly, they suffer through painful experiments and eventually—sometimes after decades of abuse– all of them are killed. Dr. Alka Chandna is with us today to do all these Monkey’s come from.
Dr. Alka Chandna
Dr. Alka Chandna is the vice president of laboratory investigations cases for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, focusing on animal experimentation issues. She oversees PETA’s efforts to end cruel experiments on animals in laboratories, and her many victories include helping to close notorious contract animal-testing facility Professional Laboratory and Research Services and end the National Institutes of Health’s decades-long maternal-deprivation experiments on baby monkeys.
More than 90% of animal experiments fail to lead to treatments for humans. More than 95% of new pharmaceutical drugs that test safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials.
Since its founding in 1980, PETA has been urging the National Institutes of Health to move away from animal experiments, and its campaigns have shut down numerous NIH-funded experiments, including torturous psychological experiments on baby monkeys taken from their mothers.
For more information please visit: www.peta.org/
