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News Release October 18, 2005 Activists Seek To Force Sale of Property Adjacent to Historical Harry Harlow Monkey Lab Madison Wisconsin- A lawsuit was filed on October 18, 2005 to force the sale of property adjacent to the infamous Harry Harlow lab at the University of Wisconsin to activists working to expose the inherent cruelty of the nation’s primate laboratories. The property owner entered into a contract to sell the property to them only after learning they planned to open a national exhibition to showcase the use of nonhuman primates in painful and cruel experiments. Upon receipt of a large counter offer from a University front group, the owner has tried to break his contractual obligation. Harry Harlow is father of the widespread current justification for hurting monkeys: these animals’ minds and emotions are fundamentally the same as ours. Their suffering is no different from ours in similar situations. Their emotional and intellectual needs are the very like our own. Harlow’s claims were explicit. The National Institutes of Health and publicly funded scientists argue that these close and remarkable similarities are good reason to use these animals in ways that would be criminal if done to humans. Harlow is directly responsible for training fifty or more scientists who have dispersed across the country to continue his technique and train more just like him. Like a plague of cruelty spreading across the country, the source of the contagion can be traced back to its origin. The disputed property is located directly across the street from the Harlow Lab and adjacent to the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, of which Harlow was the first director. Today, approximately 2000 monkeys are on hand, stored row upon row like so many test tubes waiting to be used in the next diabolical experiment. The National Primate Research Exhibition Hall will put the nation’s use of monkeys and apes in historical perspective and contrast the cruelty with the current understanding of the similarity of these animals’ and human minds and emotions. The University of Wisconsin and other vested interests are working hard to see that the public remains uninformed and uninvolved. To that end, they are using every available resource to stop the creation of this historic and unique facility. Read the lawsuit filed in Dane County, Wisconsin.
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