Join us and Western Mass Animal Rights Advocates as we support World Week for Animal In Labs (WWAIL) by standing up for tortured animals at the University of Massachusetts. 

The daytime event will involve a banner display, information about the animal experimentation happening on campus, student interviews, and a "Trail of Fears" display, which is an installation of pictures and names of the 16 marmoset monkeys who have been most recently killed at the university lab. The nighttime event will include a marmoset monkey video projection, information about the animal experimentation happening on campus, and student interviews.

At UMass over the past decade, marmosets have been subjected to invasive surgeries, hormone manipulation, confinement, and stress-inducing tests. These experiments are claimed to study menopause and neurodegenerative diseases in human women but involve harmful procedures like the surgical removal of reproductive organs, sleep deprivation, social isolation to study stress responses, and forced restraint. Once the experiments are finished, the marmosets are killed and dissected.

Non-animal research methods are more reliable, ethical, and cost-effective. In honor of WWAIL, we are urging authorities and decision-makers at UMass and other universities to end the use of animals in research, invest in modern alternatives, and align with their values of innovation and progress by adopting humane and more effective research methods. 

Who: In Defense of Animals and Western Mass. Animal Rights Advocates (WMARA)

What: Two actions to stand against animal experimentation for WWAIL

When: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 11:30-2:00 p.m. and Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:45-8:45 p.m. 

Where: UMass campus, Morrill Science Center. 639 North Pleasant Street. Amherst, MA 

Get the details and coordinate with fellow advocates on the Facebook event pages for the daytime event and for the evening event. 

Please join us to take a stand against animal experimentation and make calls and sign our alert if you have not already that urges decision-makers to end it.