Members of the newly formed Connecticut Animal Rights Network (CARN) along with New Haven residents protested at Yale University’s George St. building. Activists carried signs reading “Yale Tortures Animals”, “End Ivy League Animal Abuse”, and “Shut Down Yale Animal Labs.”
Leaflets were distributed detailing the lives of the 150,000 animals who are locked away with examples detailing how animals suffer in Yale labs along with the names of specific Yale faculty members who are responsible for such suffering and death.
“Yale has recently been cited with violating the Animal Welfare Act and has spun stories as to why this doesn’t matter; the real reason it doesn’t matter is because it is the every day, legally sanctioned operations that truly threaten the well being and the lives of animals,” said Christine Koczur, founder of the Connecticut Animal Rights Network. “We are not asking that Yale operate their animal labs within the law, we are demanding that they shut down the labs altogether.”
Yale University currently imprisons over 150,000 animals in laboratories at various locations throughout New Haven. These animals have had holes drilled into their skulls, have been subject to “inescapable” electric shocks, have been forced to consume dangerous drugs including methamphetamines and cocaine, and are routinely killed. Animals include primates, dogs, cats, ferrets, rodents, and others.
Local news coverage and video of the event can be found here.
