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University of California San Francisco (UCSF) UCSF was embarrassingly caught purchasing stadium-sized speakers to blast the eardrums of squirrel monkeys. When asked for a justification for this cruelty UCSF offered up the lame excuse, "To mimic the partial hearing loss that occurs in humans as the result of age, viral infection or chronic exposure to loud noise," but these were not older monkeys, the monkeys were not being infected with any viruses, and the sounds they were being exposed to were acute rather than chronic. UCSF was embarrassed by the public criticism from medical doctors, celebrities, and world-famous primatologist Jane Goodall. Apparently, everyone in the world, except UCSF, felt that the experiment should be stopped. It wasn't. Steven Cheung and David Wong, the perpetrators of this violence, felt that leaving monkeys' brains exposed for three days was an acceptable level of cruelty. Cheung has a history of cruelty. In previous experiments he cut and cross-connected the facial and tongue nerves of monkeys. Approximately 150 monkeys are kept here. These include rhesus and crab-eating macaques, squirrel monkeys and owl monkeys (the only nocturnal monkey species). All of the research using monkeys at UCSF results in pain or death. Speak
out. Get involved. Contact: U.S. Senator,
U.S. Senator,
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