Canberra – PETA US has sent a letter calling on the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) to stop its unconscionable and archaic use of animals in its programme, following reports that it just launched a rocket sending live animals into space.
“Animals aren’t tiny astronauts – they’re living beings who feel fear, confusion, and panic just as we do,” says PETA Vice President for Australia Mimi Bekhechi. “PETA is calling on the ISA to ground the agency’s cruel animal testing missions for good.”
The ISA has a well-documented history of exploiting animals in scientifically and morally bankrupt space-exploration efforts, including launching into orbit a terrified monkey who was crudely strapped into a restraint device in 2013. The agency has also used monkeys, rodents, turtles, and worms in previous space missions.
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.au and follow the group on Facebook and Instagram.
Contact:
Sascha Camilli Media@peta.org.au
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